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Title Building across worlds : international projects by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners / editor: Christian Schittich
Edition First edition
Published Munich : Edition DETAIL, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations (colour)
Series Edition Detail
Edition Detail (Institut für Internationale Architektur-Dokumentation)
Contents Frontmatter -- Content -- From Simplicity and Structural Order -- Raising the Curtain on Building Culture -- The Fourth and Fifth Quality of Building -- Arvo Pärt's Game of Dice and the Kings at the Lake -- Feng Shui, Interrelationships and Parametric Design -- The Stadium as a Stage for the Choreography of the Masses -- From Here to There -- New Public Dialogues -- Project Credits -- About the Office -- Authors -- Picture Credits
Summary Over the past 50 years, the architectural office von Gerkan, Marg und Partner has realised 400 projects worldwide - from single-family homes to cultural edifices and office buildings, from transport facilities to master plans. Many of the buildings were constructed throughout Asia - yet how to build in the cultural environment and on the proper scale in China and Vietnam, for example? What sort of knowledge can be transferred from construction work in Europe - and how much do construction projects, in their sociologically and culturally familiar contexts, benefit from the experienced gained there? Various principles, conditions and times determine the context in which gmp operates. The extract included herein from the gmp portfolio draws parallels between current domestic and international projects, while supplemental references to earlier buildings offer a look back at the office's development
Notes Translated from the German
Includes index
Audience Specialized
Notes Print version record
Subject Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner.
SUBJECT Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner fast
Subject ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
Form Electronic book
Author Schittich, Christian, editor
Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. Works. Selections
LC no. 2016592215
ISBN 3955533204
9783955533205
3955533190
9783955533199