Conrad Bercah (14 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Acceptable - This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Modernism was an aesthetic project introduced as being the single frame of mind necessary to impersonate modernity's best invention - the scientific method - which would cure the various sicknesses derived from rampant urbanisation. Therefore, it is not surprising that modernism has often been confused with modernity, which is actually a project spanning 500 years. The anthology gathers a body of notes conrad-bercah has been peeling for over twenty years about some of the cultural issues reflected in American modernism and its discontents. The material has gained an 'archaeological' interest for the author who aims at stimulating the reader to interact with the prevailing rhetoric of the day: a relentless techno-fetishism to mask an irreversible submission to market forces that thrive on making a marketable spectacle of architectural form either by resorting to specious naturalism or deviated engineering. Or both. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 2007, first printing. Published by Charta. Softcover without DJ as issued. Condition new, square tight and clean book, spine not creased, corners not bumped, spine not creased, no names, no underlinings, no highlights , no bent page corners, not a reminder. Square 4to, 224 pages, illustrated throughout. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders.

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Brossura. Condition: new. English Text.Siracusa, 2020; paperback, pp. 112, b/w and col. ill., cm 15x21. What role does an architect play in a process as complicated as building? The mother? The father? Bercahaus is a curious, Berlin-based affair documenting unusual conditions for the usual act of fornication generally responsible for generating works of architecture. Libro.

Brossura. Condition: new. English Text.Siracusa, 2018; paperback, pp. 192, b/w and col. ill., b/w and col. plates, cm 15x21. Libro.

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Condition: OTTIMO USATO. INTERLINGUE Traduzione e prefazione di Conrad-Bercah. Editore: Marlene Klein. Brossura editoriale in cartoncino bianca, con velature di polvere, tracce d'uso ai piatti, margini minimamente consumati. Interno ben conservato, cerniera salda, pagine ricche di 174 illustrazioni di cui 68 a colori e le restanti in bianco e nero, nel testo e fuori testo. Numero pagine 224.

Brossura. Condition: new. English Text.Milano, 2007; paperback, pp. 223, b/w and col. ill., cm 17x24. The Milan architecture firm West Office, which specializes in commercial, residential and institutional projects, with a special emphasis on functional workplaces, was founded in 1999 by the New York architect Conrad-Bercah, and it has been on the international radar ever since. The firm's stated goal is to extract value from global society by focusing on "what seems to be gradually vanishing from daily life--namely, cultural differences." In this somewhat tongue-in-cheek, yet still functional first monograph, projects are divided into two Western demographic regions: the North-Atlantic Protestant Area (NaPA) and the Mediterranean Catholic Area (MeCA). Conrad-Bercah is intimate with both; he was schooled at Harvard and he trained in New York with I.M. Pei and Henry Cobb and in Milan with Aldo Rossi and Ignazio Gardella. In this engagingly designed book, projects from both sides of the Atlantic are represented with drawings and explanatory texts demonstrating how West Office adds cultural specificity to the global heterogeneity of contemporary architecture. Libro.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Modernism was an aesthetic project introduced as being the single frame of mind necessary to impersonate modernity's best invention - the scientific method - which would cure the various sicknesses derived from rampant urbanisation. Therefore, it is not surprising that modernism has often been confused with modernity, which is actually a project spanning 500 years. The anthology gathers a body of notes conrad-bercah has been peeling for over twenty years about some of the cultural issues reflected in American modernism and its discontents. The material has gained an 'archaeological' interest for the author who aims at stimulating the reader to interact with the prevailing rhetoric of the day: a relentless techno-fetishism to mask an irreversible submission to market forces that thrive on making a marketable spectacle of architectural form either by resorting to specious naturalism or deviated engineering. Or both. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.