Research Catalog

Title

Building upon building / edited by J. Engels & M. Grootveld.

Publication

[Rotterdam, Netherlands] : Nai010 Publishers, [2016], ©2016.

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Additional Authors

• Grootveld, M. (Marius)
• Engels, J. (Jantje)

Description

203 pages : illustrations, plans; 22 cm

Summary

In Building Upon Building, 45 contemporary European architects, including Stephen Bates, Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven, Monadnock, Dierendonckblancke and Humblé Martens, present their designs for a fictional expansion on an existing building, taking into account the design principles of the original structure.

Subjects

• Buildings > Repair and reconstruction
• Architecture, Modern

Contents

Preface : Building upon building / Jantje Engels & Marius Grootveld -- 1. Essays : The perceptive professional architecture as the art of seeing / Lara Schrijver -- Highest fidelity / Christophe Van Gerrewey -- The living historical city / Dorine van Hoogstraten -- 2. Projects : Hydra / Monadnock -- Chandos house / Stephen Bates -- Third apartment building, St. Alban Tal, Basel / Hugh Strange -- An extension to Scuola Grande di San Marco / Mark Pimlott -- Goethe's Gartenhaus / Dow Jones -- Striping the block / Sub Office -- Jacob's ladder house / Lü̈tjens Padmanabhan -- St. James's place / Diederendirris -- More not less! / Adam Khan -- The view of the Maschinenmeister / Jules Schoonman -- Picturesque ratio / Humblé Martens -- Flatbuilding Westzeedijk / De Kort van Schaik -- Linnaeus, competition for the extension to the Stockholm Public Library / Baukuh -- Restoration / OMMX -- "The jammed house in the corner pulls itself up by its own hair" / Nbundm -- San Miniato al Monte / Veldwerk -- Picnic cloth / East -- Flirting with the past / re:architekti -- In dialogue with Gion A. Caminada, common ground & distinction / Barnaby Hughes & Hamish Warren -- Kaleidoscope / Studio Thys Vermeulen -- Alienation & adaptation / Donna van Milligen Bielke -- A sculptural colonnade / Anne Dessing -- AEG am Humboldthain / Studio Ossidiana -- Tow chapels / Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk -- My house in the former farm Gut Garkau / Gunnar Daan -- Apartment block Ippolito Nievo, 28 / Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin -- O.M. Ungers perimeter block extension / AMUNT -- Perspectives / Korth Tielens -- Slight adjustments (to Maaskant) / Fischer Multerer -- Merely an excavation of the buildings foundation / NU architectuuratelier -- Sanderson house / David Kohn -- A Dulwich double / Ryan W. Kennihan -- 'Das grüne Haus' by Albert Gessner, 1904 / Ties Linders -- Celebrating 'The architecture of the banal' / Office Winhov -- (fire) tower / Dierendonckblancke -- T' Huis WC / BeL -- Reflecting on Begraafplaats Zuiderhof / General Architecture -- Enclosed gardens, a hidden public attraction / Bedaux de Brouwer -- Data centre on Lexington Avenue / OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen -- "I never read The economist" / Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven -- Reflections / Hans van der Heijden -- All these facades: the city / De Vylder Vynck Tailleu -- Inside out / Els Claessens & Tania Vandenbussche -- Ringsiedling Siemensstadt / Robbrecht & Daem.

ISBN

• 9789462082847
• 9462082847

LCCN

2016441520

OCLC

• 936145226
• SCSB-8938781

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries