One of the world's most influential contemporary architects is profiled in this monograph. As third director of the progressive Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and an architect of rich technological imagery and innovative form, Neil Denari has achieved recognition through his designs, writings and installations. A mixture of photography, cultural criticism, graphic imagery and architectural work, the heart of this book contains discussion of 20 architectural projects spanning Denari's career, from his acclaimed "Interrupted Projections" installation at Gallery Ma in Tokyo to the more recent design for the first Microsoft retail store. Denari's trademark computer renderings are displayed in each one, and a comprehensive list of his work includes everything from early urban experiments to mechanical explorations. Just as an aeroplane's gyroscope creates an artificial horizon line for the pilot, Denari eliminates the dictates of the physical earth in favour of cultural, economic and graphic forces. This publication is a celebration - and critique - of the image, function and progress of technology and globalization in the information age.
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"It wets the appetite for more built work, which will surely pose and exhilarating challenge to our notions of space." -- Mark Branch, I.D. Magazine
"Taking its title from aviation equipment, this book will take you to place in architecture you didn't know existed. Denari's richly shaped and painstakingly articulated work is shown project-by-project through mostly computer renderings and some models." -- SAH/SCC Newsletter, Nov/Dec 1999 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"Taking its title from aviation equipment, this book will take you to place in architecture you didn't know existed. Denari's richly shaped and painstakingly articulated work is shown project-by-project through mostly computer renderings and some models." -- SAH/SCC Newsletter, Nov/Dec 1999 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Neil M. Denari is the director of SCI-Arc
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Gyroscopic Horizons shows an indepth look into the process, motivation and presentational work from one of the most important young american architects currently practicing. For a first monograph, Denari's work is seamless offering a unique journey through the architect's portfolio and logic. Denari's book approaches a very important issue for understanding culture and technology. In 1987, renowned architectural critic and historian Kenneth Frampton (architecture, Columbia U) separated Neil Denari out among his peers as a more thoughtful designer. As Frampton predicted, Gyroscopic Horizons contains enormous insight and energy into this thoughtful architects work. Landmark First Monograph!
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Since 1960, the North American landscape, especially the Southwestern part of the United States, has undergone massive development due to the expansion of the military-industrial complex that served the space program and the sustained conflict in Vietnam. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Los Angeles, New York, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Main Street, University of Minnesota Press, Zone Books, Roland Barthes, The System of Objects, Columbia University Press, Graham Thompson, North American, Paul Patton, Sarah Whiting, Southern California, Thousand Plateaus, Brian Massumi, Indiana University Press, Kansai Science City, San Francisco, Seven Samurai, The Time-Image, United States New!
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Since 1960, the North American landscape, especially the Southwestern part of the United States, has undergone massive development due to the expansion of the military-industrial complex that served the space program and the sustained conflict in Vietnam. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Los Angeles, New York, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Main Street, University of Minnesota Press, Zone Books, Roland Barthes, The System of Objects, Columbia University Press, Graham Thompson, North American, Paul Patton, Sarah Whiting, Southern California, Thousand Plateaus, Brian Massumi, Indiana University Press, Kansai Science City, San Francisco, Seven Samurai, The Time-Image, United States New!
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- Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze on 4 pages
- The System of Objects (Radical Thinkers) by Jean Baudrillard on 4 pages
- A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze on page 43, and page 51
- The Philosophy of Space and Time (Dover Books on Physics) by Hans Reichenbach on page 42, and page 43
- Pacific Edge by Peter Zellner in Back Matter
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- Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors by Antoine Picon on page 351, page 352, and Back Matter
- Architecture Now! 3 (English/French/German Edition) (v. 3) (English, French and German Edition) by Philip Jodidio in Front Matter, page 1, and page 15
- Digital Real--Blobmeister: first built projects by Peter C. Schmal in Back Matter
- Architects Today by Kester Rattenbury in Back Matter
- Frame: The Back Issue by Frame on page 156
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