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From Basel - Herzog & de Meuron
Jean-François Chevrier
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Hardcover. The global success story of the architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron is intimately bound up with Basel. With this embeddedness as a point of departure, the authors analyze motifs, principles, and spatial design of their oeuvre. Num Pages: 256 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, 154 colour illustrations, 26 schw.-w. u. 154 farb. Abb. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 231 x 25. Weight in Grams: 780.
The global success story of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has local roots. This book traces these origins while identifying the essential ideas, professional ethics, and development of their architectural practice, established in 1978.
The biographies of both architects and the activities of their practice are intimately bound up with the town of Basel. With this embeddedness in Basel as a point of departure, the authors elucidate central themes of their architectural oeuvre: from habitat to monument. With reference to exemplary buildings, they analyze the motifs, constructive principles, and spatial design of the architectonic works ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Birkhauser
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, Switzerland
ISBN
9783035608144
SKU
V9783035608144
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Ref
99-15
About Jean-François Chevrier
Prof. Jean-François Chevrier teaches history of contemporary art at the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris.
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