Grounds and Envelopes: Reshaping Architecture and the Built Environment

by Michael Hensel, Jeffrey Turko, Jeffrey P. Turko

Book Overview

Providing a source of vision for the revitalisation of ground and envelope as spatial elements that can inform the search for embedded locally specific architectures, this book collects essays and projects that each contributes a particular element to what might constitute an integrated and richly nuanced approach to spatial organisation. Projects include:

Paulo Mendes da Rocha; Brazilian Pavilion, Osaka World Expo 1970, Osaka, Japan RCR Arquitectes:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415639174
• ISBN13: 9780415639170
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 10.8"