Material Transfers - 9781580935432

Monacelli Press

Material TransfersMetaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary Architecture\nAuthor(s): Francoise Bollack\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Monacelli Press, United States\nImprint: Monacelli Press\nISBN-13: 9781580935432, 978-1580935432\nSynopsis\nA provocative examination of the connections between contemporary expression in architecture and traditional materials and forms\n\nArchitect, architectural historian, and preservationist Franoise Bollack presents eighteen projects that use traditional materials to build contemporary forms or use modern materials to build traditional forms, blurring the boundary between tradition and modernity in architecture.\n\nBollack rejects the modernist taboo against imitation and precedent, tracing the history of adaptive and imitative design from the Renaissance to the Greek and Gothic revivals and to the nineteenth-century modular cast-iron facades that Philip Johnson considered \""the basis for modern design.\""\n\nThe book examines projects in the US, Eu.