| Analyzing Ambasz Contributor(s): Ambasz, Emilio (Author), Sorkin, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1580931359 ISBN-13: 9781580931359 Publisher: Monacelli Press OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2004 Annotation: Architect, museum curator, and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz is perhaps most renowned for projects that fuse architecture and landscape--high-rise buildings enveloped in verdant screens of trees and plants, and houses that virtually disappear beneath mounds of earth. It has been said that his work defies easy categorization and analysis, and terms such as poetry, wonder, and myth are often ascribed to his designs. In this penetrating collection of essays, prominent scholars and architects take up the challenge and set about rigorously "analyzing Ambasz." Anthropologist Dean MacCannell, for example, reconsiders the presence of myth in Ambasz's work by drawing on the research of Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes in order to understand Ambasz's mythmaking as something more than merely producing work that has a mystical, spiritual feel. Peter Hall takes another tack, exploring Ambasz's innovative industrial designs--chairs that mimic the form of the spine or objects that do not reveal themselves as lights or pens until used. The volume concludes with Sorkin's interview with Ambasz and Emilio, the two sides to the designer's personality, one visionary and the other pragmatic. Photographs accompany this lively debate, which fills a gap in our understanding of Ambasz's work. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - General - Architecture | Landscape |
| Dewey: 720.92 |
| LCCN: 2003019719 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7.06" W x 9.32" (1.08 lbs) 208 pages |