An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures without Architecture
$196.75
- Hardcover
1280 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2019
Summary
More than 1,000 representations of the human figure in architectural drawings by architects ranging from Aalto to Zumthor, removed from their architectural context.Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and MOS present their rich findings on the human presence in architectural drawings not in any chronological or other linear order, but based on the convention of the encyclopedia, thus presenting (and perhaps deliberately condoning) surprise encounters made possible by the contingency created by al…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262038676 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262038676 |
| Author: | Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, MOS |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1280 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 3.38kg |
| Dimensions: | 279mm x 203mm |
| Series: | An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures without Architecture |
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A wave of excitement may rush over the reader while surveying the 1000+ scale figures in the book’s collection.– ARCHINECT –
A wave of excitement may rush over the reader while surveying the 1000+ scale figures in the book’s collection.
—ARCHINECTAbout The Author
Michael Meredith
Michael Meredith is a Principal at MOS, an internationally recognized architectural practice based in New York. His writing has appeared in Artforum, LOG, Perspecta, Harvard Design Magazine, and other publications.Hilary Sample is a Principal at MOS, Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning, and Preservation, and author of Maintenance Architecture (MIT Press).MOS, cofounded by Meredith and Sample in 2003, was the recipient of the 2015 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award in Architecture, the 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, and the 2008 Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices Award.
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