num_pages: 250
description: Critic James Wines notes, “The topic of this book, 'un-volumetric architecture' is the search for creative alternatives to the overly volumetric 'shape making' obsessions of international architecture today . . .” Here are over 50 important experimental contemporary designs for public spaces sited throughout the world-earthworks and surface design, canopies and shelters, and other forms of “micro-architecture.” As a theory un-volumetric architecture attracted designers including the Acconci studio, Shigeru Ban, Eduard Bru, Manuel de Sola Morales, Isamo Nougichi, Toyo Ito, Wes Jones, Kengo Kuma, Torres &amp; La Pena, Mary Miss, N! Studio, NL architects, Oma, Site, Italo Rota, Sauerbruch &amp; Hutton, and Venturi Scott Brown.
language: English
title: Contemporary Public Space: Un-volumetric Architecture
titlecomplete: Contemporary Public Space: Un-volumetric Architecture
genres: Architecture
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Skira