374 pages, 256 Abbildungen in Farbe, 33 x 23.5 cm, Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3006-5
Assembling buildings designed by modern star architects from Tadao And? to Peter Zumthor, this photography book is a total-work-of-art: its felicitous interplay of brilliant architectural photography, exquisite book design, and texts approaching the subject from the angle of the history of thought places Marcel Chassots imagery within European cultural history. Once it plunges into Chassots architectural photography, the eye feasts on a wealth of scenes from the repertoire of outstanding international contemporary architecture. Each of the photographs aptly captures a prototypical subject. Colouring, the arrangement of lines, lighting, as well as the photographic means are employed with such precision that viewers feel as if they are in a visual laboratory where photography interprets architecture in its particular language. In his essay the author Wolfgang Meisenheimer looks into the fundamental principles of Chassots photographic world view and distinguishes between three layers of thought in which the work is rooted: the Euclidian orders, echoes of the modern philosophy of the lived body, and the legacy of Cubism from the beginnings of modern painting.
Artists
Marcel Chassot, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Doriana Fuksas, Norman Foster, Daniel Libeskind, Karl Schwanzer, Rolf Gnädinger, Egon Konrad, Santiago Calatrava, Mario Botta, Giovanni XXIII, P. M. Deslande, Renzo Piano, Dominique Perrault, Helmut Jahn, David Chipperfield, Felix Rebmann, Dietrich Untertrifaller, Andreas Meck, Peter Zumthor, Wolfgang Meisenheimer
Edited by
Wolfgang Meisenheimer
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