Beautiful Moves: Designing Stadia - Hardcover

Flowers, Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848222246 ISBN 13: 9781848222243

Verlag: Lund Humphries - IPSUK, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer, once pleaded for 'a pretty move for the love of God' when watching his beloved soccer. This book is likewise interested in 'beautiful moves', but turns instead to the architecture of the stadium as an architectural type as captivating as the play occurring on the pitch.

In the past 30 years a number of stadium projects have been completed that highlight how this building type has become a site for architectural innovation and complexity. Clients increasingly turned to A-list architects and prize-winning firms to design new stadia. As a result, in cities around the world stadia are often the most expensive and monumental of projects, and may be icons of identity and defining presences in the built landscape.

By examining a range of exemplary stadia from around the world (built, unbuilt and demolished projects), this book presents for the first time a canon for this building type. Organised chronologically, it includes famous examples from the likes of Lina Bo Bardi, Frei Otto, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Herzog & de Meuron, Foster + Partners and Studio Gang.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Benjamin Flowers is an Associate Professor in Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published 'Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty' (Ashgate Press, 2014, 'Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), and most recently, Sport and Architecture (Routledge, 2016). He is the director of Stadia Lab.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lund Humphries - IPSUK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1848222246
• ISBN 13: 9781848222243
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland