Jeremy Melvin Livres

In recent years, Great Britain has produced a number of notable architects who are acclaimed throughout the world, and now the creativity and dynamism of the younger generation is rapidly gaining recognition. This monograph features 14 younger architectural practices together with their most admired buildings and projects: Shed KM, Liverpool; Weston Williamson, London; Haworth Tompkins, London; Niall McLaughlin, London; Caruso St John, Walsall; Eric Parry, Cambridge; Patrick Davies, Cardiff; Foreign Office Architects, London/New York/Yokohama; Bauman Lyons, Bridlington; AHMM, Walsall; Stephen Hodder, Oxford; Richard Murphy, Edinburgh/Dundee; FAT, London; Birds Portchmouth Russum, Chichester. Each office is portrayed in detail, documenting several projects and including biographical information, thus providing the compelling overview of the young architectural scene in Britain which has previously been lacking.

Meeting the new opportunities for rural living demands imaginative design, and many of the world's most inventive architects are rising to this challenge. Among those featured in this book are well-known names like Kengo Kuma, Steven Holl, Lacaton Vassal, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Baumschlager + Eberle, Niall McLaughlin and Sean Godsell, as well as a host of talented architects from Russia to South Africa, Chile to China, New Zealand to the US.  What makes the demand for new and challenging architecture all the greater is the rapidly changing relationship between countryside and city, driven by social and technological development. In these circumstances, precedents from history and tradition are at best starting imagination, innovation and creativity are essential to do full justice to new challenges, expectations and opportunities. As urban life becomes increasingly rarified and stressful, so the contrast with raw nature assumes a different value to its status in past centuries, when architects generally sought to bring nature under human control. So this book divides houses into sections that reflect elemental qualities of landscape, forest, plain, ocean and mountain, as well as a section on houses that update the tradition of manipulating nature into telling a story.

This is an easy to use guide to a wide range of architectural styles, from classical times through to the post-modern era. For each style there is a definition, an introduction to the topic, a list of key architects, keywords, and key works as well as suggestions of other styles you might be interested in.

"This book is a handy guide to architectural movements or 'isms' from classical times up to the present. [It] provides the ideal introduction to all the significant movements that have shaped the history of architecture. Each ism has a two-page spread on which there is an introduction to the ism which explains when the movement first emerged, the historical period to which it applies and the principel disputes over its applicability, usefulness or significance. Clear sections illustrate the most important practitioners and buildings within the period, related key words, and illustrations that best represent the distinctive features." -Inside front cover.

Chronologický přehled slohů, směrů, stylů, trendů, hnutí i skupin v architektuře od starověku po současnost. Každému stavebnímu, později architektonickému slohu či směru jsou věnovány dvě strany, které obsahují definici slohu, časové vymezení a historické období, seznam významných staveb daného období a směru a klíčových umělců, odkazy na další stavby včetně reprodukcí a v neposlední řadě i další prameny a odkazy. Nechybí ani rejstřík umělců, pojmů a termínů i graf jednotlivých period.

Kniha je praktickým sprievodcom po architektonických slohoch, smeroch a izmoch od antiky až po súčasnosť. Je ideálnym úvodom ku všetkým podstatným hnutiam, ktoré ovplyvnili dejiny architektúry od staroveku, cez humanizmus a imperializmus až po aktuálne izmy ako postmodernizmus a brutalizmus či tendencie ako ekologická architektúra. Každému izmu sú venované dve strany. Úvod k danému slohu vysvetľuje jeho pôvod, historické obdobie, v ktorom sa vyskytoval ako aj základné názory na jeho používanie a význam. Ďalšie časti približujú najznámejších reprezentantov a najvýznamnejšie architektonické diela daného izmu, kľúčové pojmy súvisiace s ním a ilustrácie, ktoré prezentujú jeho charakteristické črty