This text presents the work of four international architects, each of whom has combined vernacular building with the use of concrete, to create buildings that respond sensitively to their environments while functioning as symbols that transcend their immediate surroundings. The approaches of the architects featured here have allowed them to forge an architectonic language. The book includes work ranging from Predock's interpretations of America's Southwest desert to Ando's intervention into natural and urban contexts, and from Legoretta's representations of Mexico's rich pre-Columbian heritage to Aret's "second-modernist" forms, which shows how each architect's individual vision has created unique buildings.
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Catherine Slessor is the author of Eco-Tech, published by Thames & Hudson.
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Rationalism and Whimsy: The 4x4 series,
By Michael Webb (London, England > Los Angeles, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Concrete Regionalism (4x4 series) (Paperback)
The first four volumes in the new 4x4 series, each of which features four works by four comparable architects. The concept of linkage is interesting, the four critics achieve an admirable synthesis, the price is right, and the books are full of useful information, plans and excellent photographs. Sadly, their accessibility has been compromised by a wildly self-indulgent designer who squandered eight pages on headline type, overlaid body type with shadow typography, and jammed in far too many miniscule images and discordant typefaces. ItŐs a lesson in how not to lay out a book and may scare away potential buyers.The persistent will be rewarded by graceful writing, especially by the peripatetic Dubliner, Raymund Ryan, and Catherine Slessor, executive editor of the Architectural Review. For the record, the architects covered are, in order: Antoine Predock, Tadao Ando, Wiel Arets and Ricardo Legorretta; David Chipperfield, Waro Kishi, Eduoardo Souto de Moura, and Tod Williams & Billie Tsien; Jones Partners, TEN Arquirtectos, RoTo, and Smith-Miller + Hawkinson; finally, Enric Miralles, Gunter Behnisch, Mecanoo, and Patkau Architects.
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