Product Description

Details of Contemporary Architecture is the first issue of AsBuilt, a new series from Princeton Architectural Press dedicated to formal and material innovation in architecture and the application of new technologies and materials. AsBuilt is dedicated to the proposition that architects learn best from other architects; the purpose of the series is to reaffirm building as the principal intellectual activity of architecture, to collapse the divide between theory and practice.

Projects are selected from current architecture in the United States and Canada, including work by architects from abroad collaborating with North American teams, according to a combination of criteria including development and application of new materials, inventive use of traditional materials; innovative building technologies; unusual building types, structure, function, and technological systems; as well as creative solutions to problems of architectural detailing.

Details of Contemporary Architecture includes twenty five projects with original construction drawings, photos and text by Alsop Architects, Archi-tectonics, Ball-Nogués Design, Behnisch Architects, David Chipperfield Architects, Daly Genik Architects, Studio Gang Architects, Garofalo Architects, Gehry Partners, Hariri & Hariri Architecture, Herzog & De Meuron, Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates, Steven Holl Architects, Jones Studio, Morphosis, Olsen Sundberg Kundig Allen, OMA/LMN, Dominique Perrault Architects, Pugh + Scarpa Architects, RoTo Architects, Schwartz Silver Architects, SHoP PC, Trahan Architects, Rafael Viñoly Architects and Weiss Manfredi Architects.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #170701 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Review
...extensively explores the common as well as more exotic architectural detailing that so often gets lost in the pages and photographs of the design media. -- RIBA, Nov.2006

Details in Contemporary Architecture is a handsome and readable layman's overview to adventurous and innovative new design in America. -- Architectural Record, June 2008

Detailed projects supply cross, longitudinal, tabletop section, floor, and framing plans, models, interior and exterior, and street-level views. The 190 sumptuous color photographs and capacious illustrations help one to understand each unique project. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. -- Choice, September 2007

The selected projects, ranging from a graceful pedestrian bridge to a mammoth sports arena, are all exemplars of close architect/engineer collaboration, and they are as astounding for their technical wizardry as for their aesthetic merit. ..This volume, along with the series's first volume by these authors, Details in Contemporary Architecture, is highly recommended for practicing architects, engineers, and students in the field. -- Library Journal, June 2008

About the Author
Christine Killory is a principal of Davids Killory Architecture in San Francisco. René Davids is a professor of architecture at University of California, Berkeley, and a principal of Davids Killory Architecture.

Customer Reviews

Almost a 'How Did They Do That'
AsBuilt is a new series of architecture books beint published by Princeton Architectural Press. This is the first book in the series and seems to be the prototype for the concept of the series.

This book, and all of the planned books in the series, feature 25 buildings that were actually constructed in the US or Canada. Besides being interesting buildings in their overall design, the author, a practicing architect in her own right, goes beyond the facade to present how the special features of the building were designed/constructed.

As the saying goes, 'the Devil is in the details.' And here are the details of these buildings discussed in the open. Many of these feature new construction materials, old materials used in new ways, or merely have designs that go beyond the expected. Ms. Killory has been able to get the architects involved to share their newest developments, right down to including the engineering drawings of particularly difficult parts of the structure.

This book goes beyond the normal 'idea book' to give you the how as well. And showing only 'AsBuilt' buildings, here are buildings not just concepts on paper.