Overview

This volume focuses on two architectural projects that, taken together, provide a telling glimpse into the Chilean culture and landscape--from its colonial legacy to its magnificent coast. Smiljan Radic's House in Punta Pite merges vernacular architecture with a crisp, Modernist sense of design to create a structure that blends intimately with the expansive coast, while Rodrigo Perez de Arce, in creating a newly designed crypt for the centuries-old cathedral of Santiago de Chile, manages to seamlessly synthesize his own contemporary language into the existing layers of the building's history. On the face of it, these two projects could not be more different, yet the conceptual framework and design constraints successfully confronted by each delineate Chile's contribution to contemporary architecture. This is the first volume in the O'Neil Ford Duograph Series, which selects two contrasting projects in order to explore the best of today's overlooked global architecture.

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Author:   Wilfried Wang ,  Kevin Alter ,  Rodrigo Perez de Arce ,  Smiljan Radic
Publisher:   Ernst Wasmuth Verlag
Imprint:   Ernst Wasmuth Verlag
Volume:   01
Dimensions:   Width: 29.30cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9783803006851

ISBN 10:   3803006856
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   01 September 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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