This text presents the work of four international architects, each of whom has combined vernacular building with the use of concrete, to create buildings that respond sensitively to their environments while functioning as symbols that transcend their immediate surroundings. The approaches of the architects featured here have allowed them to forge an architectonic language. The book includes work ranging from Predock's interpretations of America's Southwest desert to Ando's intervention into natural and urban contexts, and from Legoretta's representations of Mexico's rich pre-Columbian heritage to Aret's "second-modernist" forms, which shows how each architect's individual vision has created unique buildings.
- ISBN10 0500282277
- ISBN13 9780500282274
- Publish Date 16 October 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 July 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English