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Title: Informal by Cecil Balmond, Jannuzzi Smith, Christian Brensing, Charles Jencks, Rem Koolhaas ISBN: 3-7913-2400-4 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A behind the scenes of great architecture
Comment: It was quite interesting to get a look at the somewhat unusual engineering process of Cecil Balmond.
And to discover his inputs behind some famous building, from Koolhas, Libeskind to Siza.
The book is quite easy to read and don`t think you are going to get a structural crash course from Balmond (I must admit, I was bit disapointed of not finding that) but you do get the kind of passionate and heartily discussions you would get if you had the chance of drinking down a few drinks with Balmond and ending up with his famous sketches he drew on the bar's napkins.
Expect a book with graphics and layout of Koolhas' SMLXL / Big fonts, dual-tone pictures.
GOod read, good essay, not for someone looking for glossy pictures
Rating: 5
Summary: Balmond Student
Comment: Cecil Balmond is passionate and inspirational. When working with him, you know there is something amazing happening. I had the pleasure of having him as a studio instructor at Yale University, School of Architecture. Cecil believes in the possibilities of architecture and engineering working together in ways that enhance and grace both fields. This book brings his insight and passions together. I highly recommend it to engineers and architects alike.
Rating: 5
Summary: A dialogue
Comment: Informal is a terrific read; it places me right at the table as the author engages with his architect collaborators pursuing innovative building designs. The range is fascinating, from a box shape in the Villa Bordeaux to a curvilinear form in the Arnhem Interchange to the serene and effortless canopy in Lisbon. In each project the author establishes simple initial moves which lead ultimately to new configurations and importantly develops throughout the book a rigorous basis for exploring the non linear. This is welcome in an age when so much architectural form making is whimsical. As an architect I was fascinated how this book also brings out the lyrical and poetic inherent in structure. Best of all perhaps is the 27 sectioned speculation at the end on the anatomy of form, and an insight into the structure of organisation itself. In conjunction with his intriguing earlier book Number 9 Balmond sets out a new agenda for designers everywhere, including architects and engineers.
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Title: Number 9: The Search for the Sigma Code by Cecil Balmond ISBN: 3791319337 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.98 |
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Title: Immaterial/Ultramaterial: Architecture, Design, and Materials (Millennium Matters) by Toshiko Mori ISBN: 0807615080 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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Title: Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History by Philip Herzog, Philip Ursprung, Phyllis Lambert, Kurt W. Forster, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron ISBN: 3907078853 Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers Pub. Date: 15 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel DeLanda, Manuel De Landa ISBN: 0942299329 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 18 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design by Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Tobias, Alicia Imperiale, Grace Jeffers, Randi Mates ISBN: 1568983182 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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