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Kevin Roche Architecture as Environment
2011réf. 2043240Yale University Press 2011. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth dj. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright clean copy. The first book in more than two decades to examine the 50-year career of the eminent architect Pritzker Prize-winner Kevin Roche b. 1922 is one of the most critically acclaimed architects of the postwar era distinguished for the pioneering urban structures he designed in the 1960s and 1970s including the Oakland Museum of California and the Ford Foundation Headquarters in New York. In a career that has spanned more than half a century Roche has pioneered new territories in design methodology building technology and environmentalism. A student of Mies van der Rohe's and a principal design associate of Eero Saarinen's in the 1950s Roche is the leading member of the third generation of modern architects. One of his most important contributions has been to perceive architecture as part of the larger man-made environment which entailed understanding transportation infrastructure and landscape as architectural problems; considering public spaces including gardens as integral to architecture; and designing some of the earliest energy-efficient buildings. This book offers a comprehensive look at the extraordinary range of Roche's built work from his corporate commissions for more than thirty-eight headquarters for such companies as Aetna Conoco General Foods John Deere Merck and Union Carbide to his master plans of major universities and museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art the American Museum of Natural History and the Central Park Zoo. The book extends to Roche's most recent projects including recently completed headquarters for Banco Santander in Spain Bouygues in Paris and a national convention center in Dublin. Drawing on previously inaccessible archival materials and unpublished interviews to present the full range of Roche's career and to place his innovative work within the history of modern architecture this book shows why Roche's insistence that architecture is a part of a larger context both man-made and natural is more timely than ever. Published in association with the Yale School of Architecture Exhibition Schedule: Yale School of Architecture 02/07/11 - 05/06/11 Museum of the City of New York January - April 2012 National Building MuseumJune 16 to December 2 2012 . Yale University Press hardcover
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