100 Contemporary Brick Buildings

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ISBN 9783836562355

Oprawa: Hardcover, two vols. in slipcase, Format: 24x30,5 cm, Waga: 4,99 kg, Stron: 648 with over 600 illustrations, 570 in colour, 2016 r., Photographs by Will Pryce

 

Of all building materials in the world, brick is one of the most enduring and ubiquitous. Traces of brickmaking date back to 7500 BC and fired brick first made its appearance in about 3500 BC. Since then, the trusty brick has shown amazing resilience and remains one of the mainstays of contemporary architecture. Rooted in tradition in countries as different as China and the Netherlands, it is inexpensive, flexible in use, and can also be ecologically fabricated.

This comprehensive two-volume set tours the world to cover the most exciting and innovative brick buildings of the past 15 years, from Argentina to New Zealand. True to all TASCHEN architecture tomes, it incles new talents like Argentina’s Diego Arraigada and Vietnam’s Nguyen Hai Long as well as established starchitects such as Tadao Ando and Peter Zumthor. Featured buildings showcase the variety of brick applications across cultural, domestic, infrastructure, and leisure spaces, incling Tate Modern Switch House by Herzog & De Meuron, Tidy Architects’ Amorio Restaurant in Santiago, and Mass Design Group’s Maternity Waiting Village in Kasungu, Malawi.

 

“This giant publication incles photographs, architect biographies, and architectural drawings. Guaranteed to put a welcome strain on your coffee table.”— We Heart, London