Architects and furniture /
Architects have designed some of the most iconic items of furniture. This AD features ingenious architect-protagonists of this genre and explores the recent history and chronology of architectural involvement in the discipline.Furniture augments architect-designed environments, contributing to the h...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York, NY :
Axiomatic Editions,
2025.
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| Series: | Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ;
v. 95, no. 2. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. An intimate relationship : are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin
- / Neil Spiller
- If an architect were a chair : furniture as an extension of architecture collections / Sandy Jones
- Easy edges in uneasy times : reflections on Frank Gehry's cardboard furniture design / Vanessa Grossman
- Fragments of architecture : the role of design in Zaha Hadid's early practice / Johan Duerell
- Form follows
- : Nigel Coates unpacks his furniture oeuvre / Nigel Coates
- Strange lineaments : super-saturated solutions / Neil Spiller
- Spatial artifacts : Steven Holl Architects' objects in dialogue with architecture / Dimitra Tsachrelia Holl
- Big and small : the ethos of Shigeru Ban / Dean Maltz
- The virtues of technique in the service of culture : crafting the continuous line / Guilherme Wisnik
- Soft seats : Greg Lynn toys with furniture / John Szot
- Benches can be more than benches : the serial drift of Amanda Levete / William Richards
- Doodling with a jigsaw : CRAB Studio's turning of the tables / Eoin Shaw
- From static to dynamic : floating the plane / Carrie Eastman
- All part of the game : classics, conventions and the curious case of Oyler Wu Collaborative / Todd Gannon
- Broadcasting table : domestic beginnings / Nick Elias
- Working with a paradox : a manifesto on furniture and architecture / Kiki Goti
- From another perspective. Of brains, eyes, ribbon models and proteins / Neil Spiller.