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Contemporary World Architects: Richter et Dahl Rocha
by (Foreword: Jorge Francisco Liernur) (Compiler: Oscar Riera Ojeda) (Compiler: Lucas H. Guerra) (Editor: Lucas H. Guerra) (Corporate Author: Richter Et Dahl Rocha Bureau D'Architectes) (Editor: Oscar Riera Ojeda) (Introduction: Jacques Gubler)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Rockport Publishers (2000-03)
ISBN: 1564964515
EAN: 9781564964519
Dewy Decimal #: 724.6
Paperback: 156 pages
SKU: T071025-2169
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Very good overall condition. No writing, very tight binding. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Product Description
Richter and Dahl Rocha's path is not the explicit one of militant "vanguardism," therefore not disturbing to the majority-but rather of insertion in one of the most conservative societies in the world. The question running throughout the work of Richter and Dahl Rocha is one of creative margins within that model, of the possibility of introducing originality where there is greatest demand in the opposite direction. Their work does not perplex visually with presumably rotund affirmations but is rather a rigorous experience in subtleties. The interesting thing about their work is that, while on one hand they appear to border on banality, on the other they resist being reduced to an initial moment, to an excluding determination. The coincidence is impressive. The paths of Richter and Dahl Rocha crossed in New Haven as students at the school that houses the legacy of Louis Kahn. What could a young man coming from the turbulence and darkness of Argentina in the seventies have in common with another brought up in the safe and opulent surroundings of the confederation in the Alps? My impression is that different roads led them to the place of sensible moderation that they share in their work today.-from the foreword by Jorge Francisco Lienur
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The materiality of ideas
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-05-03
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
The organization of this book, chapters arranged by materials and technologies and projects described without established typological or functional pattern, focus on the work of Richter and Dahl-Rocha from the emphasis it is based on: the materiality of architecture and the nature of construction as the deep truth of built things. This topic is presented along a superb series of projects, cleearly conceived and cleanly developed, and with documents that include inciting conceptual sketches, precise photographies and revealing working drawings. The texts by Liernur and Gubler included in the book help to locate its content within the disciplinary generalities supporting it and the cultural specificities of this partnership. The brief project descriptions describe them with precission, without interfering with the documentation, but guiding the complete reading of the work.
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