American architecture of the 1980s /

American architecture of the 1980s / foreword by Donald Canty ; introduction by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean - Washington, D.C. : The American Institute of Architects, c1990 - xiv, 342 p. : il., axonom., bocetos, cortes, fot. byn. y col., planos, plantas. 24x31 cm

Prólogo/Donald Canty: p. viii-ix. Introducción/Andrea Oppenheimer: x-xi. Créditos fotográficos: p. vii.

1980. A vision continued. Richard Meier's Atheneum, New Harmony, Ind. / Stanley Abercrombie, AIA -- Of art, self-revelation and iconoclasm. A house remade by Frank Gehry in Santa Monica, Califronia / John Pastier -- 1981. 'A building of great integrity'. Fay Jones' Thorncrown Chapel, Eureka Springs, Ark / Stanley Abercrombie -- Soaring space wrapped in metal and glass. Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, Calif., Johnston-Burgee / John Pastier -- Pert and plainspoken sanctuary. Hartman-Cox's addition to the Immanuel Presbyteian Church, McLean, Va. / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- Simple but sophisticated farmhouse. Norman Gaffney Residence, Coatesville, Pa., Bohlin Powell Larkin Cywinski / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- 1982. Arcadian house of the intellect. Two views of Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood's headquarters of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge / Robert Campbell and Donald Canty -- Shining vessel of religious thought. Richard Meier's Hartford, Conn., Seminary / Donald Canty -- 1983. An emotive place apart / Robert Campbell -- Sophisticated fantasy in three parts. Elliott house, Pennsylvania. Architec: Jefferson Riley, Moore Grover Harper / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- Well matched couple / Nora Richter Greer -- 'First monument of a loosely defined style'. Michael Graves' Portland Building / John Pastier -- 1984. Historicist, spired 'city of glass' around a plaza. PPG Place, Pittsburgh. John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson / Donald Canty -- Mission imagery, introverted spaces. San Juan Capistrano Library, San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Michael Graves / John Pastier -- Modules stacked behind a 'Billboard'. Portland, Maine, Museum. I.M. Pei & Partners / Robert Campbell -- An abstract language made comprehensible and comfortable. East Hampton residence. Gwathmey Siegel & Associates / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- Sophisticated use of rural vernacular. Weekend house in Michigan. Tigerman Fugman McCurry / Nora Richter Greer -- Built on religious, regional traditions. St. Matthew's Church. Pacific Palisades. Calif. Moore Ruble Yudell / Carleton Knight III -- 1985. Making a nonentity into a lamdmark. Procter & Gamble headquaters addition. Cincinnati. Kohn Pederson Fox / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- Distillation of a paradoxical city. Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. Frank Gehry. FAIA / John Pastier -- Combining adventure and respect. Herring Hall, Rice University. Cesar Pelli & Associates / David Dillon -- Friendly house full of surprises. Delaware house. Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown / Michael J. Crosbie -- Shingle style reinvented. Residence at Chilmark. Robert A.M. Stern / Robert Campbell -- Gentle infill in a genteel city. Scattered site public housing, Charleston, SC. / Michael J. Crosbie -- The makin of a 'magical place'. Treehouse, Philadelphia Zoo, Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown / Michael J. Crosbie -- Purposeful chaos on Cannery Row. Monterrey Bay Aquarium. Esherick, Homsay, Dodge & Davis / Carleton Knight III -- 1986. Complex of solid regional character. H.E.B. Headquaters, San Antonio; Hartman-Cox / Allen Freeman -- The U.S. chancery in Malaysia: neither fortress nor hut. Hartman-Cox makes it both secure and succesful as architecture / Carleton Knight III -- The Rockefeller Center of the '80s?Battery Park City's core / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and Allen Freeman -- Triad of 'temples' in the woods. Wenglowski house. Deer Isle, Maine; Peter Forbes & Associates / Robert Campbell -- 'Indeterminate but handsome'. Seeley G. Mudd Chemistry Building, Vassar College; Perry, Dean, Rogers / Michael J. Crosbie -- An architecture of verve and invention / Robert Campbell -- 1987. Fuller House. Menil Collection of Art and Historic Artifacts. Conrad Sulzer Regional Library. O'Hare International Airport Rapid Transit Extension. Forms as rugged as their desert setting / Allen Freeman -- Simplicity of form, ingenuity in the use of daylight / John Pastier -- Dignified presence in an neighborhood / Nora Richter Greer -- Movement and color as themes / Nora Richter Greer -- 1988. Tegel Harbor Housing, West Berlin. Guest House, Wayzata, Minnesota. Science Discovery Museum. Becton, Dickinson Headquarters. Cooper Chapel. Waterfront housing at once exuberant and classical / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- Assemblage of disparate objects / John Pastier -- 'Nutty, delightful' children's museum / Robert Campbell -- Arts and crafts spirit pervades corporate offices / Robert Campbell -- Encore delivered with strength and delicacy / Karen Cordes -- 1989. IBM's colorful 'place in the sun' / David Dillon -- Boston's 'best new piece of public architecture' / Robert Campbell -- Design clarity and urban synthesis / Barbara Koerble -- Giurgola in Canberra: quiet colossus / Philip Drew -- Essays 1980s. Assessing a decade whose only constant has been change.


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ARQUITECTURA ARQUITECTOS ARTÍCULOS OBRAS PUBLICACIONES PERIÓDICAS REVISTAS GHERY, FRANK MEIER, RICHARD JONES, FAY RILEY, JEFFERSON GRAVES, MICHAEL PEI, IEOH MING PELLI, CESAR STERN, ROBERT FORBES, PETER MOORE, CHARLES PREDOCK, ANTOINE JOHNSON, E. VERNER JENNINGS, MAURICE LEGORRETA, RICARDO JOHNSON-BURGEE CAMPBELL, ROBERT MOORE-GROVER-HARPER COXE-HAYDEN AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS DECADA DE 1980 ESTADOS UNIDOS


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