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18 S. + 50 Tafeln. Fadengehefteter Originalpappband.

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Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - - In the past ten years Santiago Calatrava has built a remarkable series of roofs, canopies, stations and bridges. He possesses the rare ability to make structure expressive and thus to turn engineering into architecture. Through carefully matched pictures and text, this book aims to probe these exciting works and reveal their essential meaning. Much has already been written about the organic inspiration of these imposing constructions of steel and concrete, materials which among the public at large are sometimes regarded as anti-organic, even "dead'. But Calatrava's works are unique in the animation they impart to modern materials. Rosselli and Harbison's book goes to the heart of this paradox, and for anyone interested in creative meetings of art and technology it will be an essential text. Reduced to the simplest terms the union between art and science distinguishes architecture from all other human acts; Calatrava is so important because he brings the two together at full strength, and this book illuminates that meeting unforgettably. (Verlagstext). ISBN 3760880832