And Now the Ensemble! - Hardcover

Pro Helvetia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3037783117 ISBN 13: 9783037783115

Publisher: Lars Müller, 2012

Synopsis

And Now the Ensemble! is intended as a challenge to architects, their clients, and commissioning authorities to understand and create urban development as a dynamic and collective work of art; in short, to make dialogue central to design. Design, atmosphere, and use can make every new building relate to its local surroundings. As a design process, this contextual expansion does not simply imitate the urban pattern, but interprets what is already there, to some extent modernizes it, makes the familiar alien by employing unusual atmospheric imagery, and ultimately transforms the accumulated chaos of soloists into an orchestrated whole. Pro Helvetia has commissioned this publication to accompany Miroslav Siks official contribution for the Swiss Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.

About this title

About the Author:

MIROSLAV AeIK, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1953, is a Swiss architect, architectural theorist, and professor in the architecture department at the ETH in Zurich.

From the Inside Flap:

And Now the Ensemble! is intended as a challenge to architects, their clients, and commissioning authorities to understand and create urban development as a dynamic and collective work of art; in short, to make dialogue central to design. Design, atmosphere, and use can make every new building relate to its local surroundings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lars Müller
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3037783117
• ISBN 13: 9783037783115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96