Light Color Sound: Sensory Effects in Contemporary Architecture - Hardcover

Bahamon, Alejandro; Alvarez, Ana Maria

 
9780393733372: Light Color Sound: Sensory Effects in Contemporary Architecture
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393733378 ISBN 13: 9780393733372
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2010

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Light, color, and sound are the three elements capable of generatinggreat sensory impact, transforming buildings into veritablemechanisms of interaction with their context and the passers-by,and this book puts these effects center-stage, covering the conceptual,aesthetic and technical implications of their applicationand integration into the structures.It focuses on thirty projects around the world in which sensory effectsare the central theme.

American projects include: the 42ndStreet Studio and The Reece School in New York; in WashingtonDC, Low Rez/Hi Fi, an interactive installation designed to renovatethe foyer of a building at 1110 Vermont Avenue, made upof glass display cases with an LED (Low Rez) matrix and a gridof posts sensitive to the touch (Hi Fi). Each element follows themovement of passersby to program sound and lighting in realtime; and Steven Holl Architects' Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City. Other projects come from LatinAmerica and Montreal, and overseas from Taiwan and Beijing to Europe.A resource and reference for practicing architects and designers, who want to incorporate such effects in theirwork, the book describes the formal language of each design, its role in the configuration of the contemporarylandscape, and its technical features. With 236 color photographs and plans, this gorgeous book will bothinform and delight.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Alejandro Bahamón, an architect, photographer, and editor of architecture books, is the author of numerous publications on contemporary architecture, including Sketch Plan Build, The Magic of Tents, Treehouses, Glass Houses, Houses on the Edge, and (with Ana María Álvarez), Light Color Sound. He lives in Barcelona.

Architect Ana María Álvarez lives in Barcelona, Spain.

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Verlag
W W NORTON & CO
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393733378
ISBN 13 
9780393733372
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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