Similar in format to the Electaarchitecture title, "Twenty Houses by Twenty Architects," this volume presents a series of case studies of different interpretations of one building type. The author's introduction provides an overview of the history of railway architecture, citing its most significant developments. Individual project documentation begins with the Gare de L'Est in Paris, the first major railway station of the nineteenth century. Grand Central Terminal in New York City, of 1903-13, is documented through archival material, including engineering drawings and period photographs, as well as contemporary photographs revealing the major restoration project of the 1990s. Several contemporary stations that have reinvigorated the building type include the Santa Justa station in Seville by Antonio Cruz and Antonio Oritz, the a station in Kyoto by Hiroshi Hara, the Lyon TGV Station by Santiago Calatrava, and the Arnhem Station by Dutch architects Ben von Berkel and Caroline Bos of UN Studio, one of the leading firms of today.
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Alessia Ferrarini is a graduate of the Universitario di Architecttura di Venezia and is currently a researcher at the Universita Politecnia delle Marche. Ferrarini has published another book on train stations entitled "La Stazione e Treni nell'Immaginario Collecttivo" ("The Station and Trains in the Collective Imagination") for Pendragon in 1999 and is a contributor to several publications, including "Trame," "Working Papers," "Quaderni di Alice," and "Edilizia Popolare."
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Focusing on the architecture and evolution of the railway station over 100 years of changing designs,
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This review is from: Railway Stations: From the Gare de L'est to Penn Station (Hardcover)
Railway fans always receive plenty of train books to contemplate - this offers a difference, focusing on the architecture and evolution of the railway station over 100 years of changing designs. Sixteen stations in nine countries are examined with an eye to considering historical precedent, the evolution of railway architecture, and the influence of station design on rail operations. Gorgeous, oversized full-page color photos capture the stations in profile, add charts where appropriate, and provides an exceptional visual display. Perfect not just for rail buffs, but for fans of transportation architecture in general.
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This review is from: Railway Stations: From the Gare de L'est to Penn Station (Hardcover)
The book, on its introduction, presents a valuable history of railway stations, and explain us how and why the station buildings changed over the last century. There are sexteen very well selected examplas of railway stations to study and further understand the basics behind them.
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