Marc Treib
Teoksen A Guide to the Gardens of Kyoto tekijä
Tekijän teokset
Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff (Honolulu Academy of Arts) (2008) 19 kappaletta
Appropriate: The Houses Of Joseph Esherick (Environmental Design Archives at the University of California, Berkeley… (2004) 14 kappaletta
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Palkinnot
You May Also Like
Tilastot
- Teokset
- 32
- Jäseniä
- 379
- Suosituimmuussija
- #63,709
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 4.3
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 4
- ISBN:t
- 54
This book is the first to focus on Ossipoff’s career, presenting significant new material on the architect and situating him within the tropical modernist movement and the cultural context of the Pacific region. The authors discuss how Ossipoff synthesized Eastern and Western influences, including Japanese building techniques and modern architectural principles. In particular, they demonstrate that he drew inspiration from the interplay of indoor and outdoor space as advocated by such architects as Frank Lloyd Wright, applying these to the concerns and vernacular traditions of the tropics. The result was a vibrant and glamorous architectural style, captured vividly in archival images and new photography.
As the corporate projects and private residences that Ossipoff created for such clients as IBM, Punahou School, Linus Pauling, Jr., and Clare Boothe Luce surpass their fiftieth anniversaries, critical assessment of these structures, offered here by distinguished scholars in the field, will illuminate Ossipoff’s contribution to the universal challenge of making architecture that is delightfully particular to its place and durable over time.… (lisätietoja)