New Organic Architecture: The Breaking Wave

by David Pearson

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for New Organic Architecture

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

New Organic Architecture is a manifesto for building in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and kinder to the environment. It illuminates key themes of organic architects, their sources of inspiration, the roots and concepts behind the style, and the environmental challenges to be met. The organic approach to architecture has an illustrious history, from Celtic design, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, to the work of Antoni Gaudi and Frank Lloyd Wright. Today there is a response to a new age of information and ecology; architects are seeking to change the relationship between buildings and the natural environment. In the first part of his book, David Pearson provides a history and assessment of organic architecture. The second part comprises statements from thirty architects from around the world whose work is based on natural or curvilinear forms rather than the straight-line geometrics of modernism. Each statement is accompanied by full-color illustrations of one or several of the architects' built projects.
  • ISBN10 1856751236
  • ISBN13 9781856751230
  • Publish Date 25 January 2002 (first published 27 July 2001)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 15 April 2005
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
  • Imprint Gaia Books Ltd
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Language English