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The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book
Anton Radevsky, David Sokol, Contribution by I.M. PEI, Santiago Calatrava and Richard Meier
 The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book showcases three-dimensional replications of some of the most innovative modern and contemporary architecture from around the world. Accompanied by illustrations, photographs, and elaborate pop-ups, the talent and imagination of architects and builders of the modern era is brought to life. Ranging from the nineteenth century to the present day, the pages follow the development of modern architecture: the creation of new buildings and innovations that led to such feats as the Brooklyn Bridge; the birth of the skyscraper and the modern city; mid-century modernism, and the cutting-edge architecture of today. Modern Architecture Pop-Up features the following structures: London’s Crystal Palace; the Brooklyn Bridge; the Eiffel Tower; New York’s Flatiron Building; Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, Chicago; Reitveld’s Schroeder House; Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye; Saarinen’s TWA terminal; Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao; Calatrava’s Milwaukee Art Museum; and Foster’s London "Gherkin" building, to name only a few. Innovative, informative, and elegant, Modern Architecture Pop-Up is an elegant visual tour of the world’s dynamic, inventive, and original architecture.
Hardcover / tekst Engels / oktober 2008
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Bird's Nest - Herzog & De Meuron in China
Christoph Schaub and Michael Schindhelm
 Building between two cultures, two architectural traditions and two political systems: the documentary by Christoph Schaub and Michael Schindhelm shows two very different building projects in China by the Basle-based star architects Herzog and de Meuron: the National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and an entire district in the town of Jinhua. One is tailored to China's international appearance; the
other caters for the daily needs of the population.
SYNOPSIS:
China is changing fast. More building work went on in China last year than in the whole of Europe over the last few years. Internationally reputed architects are in demand.
The Basle-based star architects Herzog & de Meuron (Tate Modern in London, Allianz Arena football stadium in Munich, De Young Museum in San Francisco, among other projects) have been commissioned to build the National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics. The two architects have another project in progress in the Chinese province, where they are building an entire district for 300,000 people in Jinhua, a city with 3 million inhabitants. This project caters for the daily needs of the Chinese population.
The documentary by Christoph Schaub and Michael Schindhelm shows how the Chinese culture affects the construction work of the architects: The specific architectonic form and the struggle to achieve it give us information about the society, the culture and everyday life in China. BIRD’S NEST - HERZOG & DE MEURON IN CHINA explores how these prestige buildings are being built in China. On the one hand, the documentary attempts to understand the two architects’ very own method of contextual building applied successfully again and again. On the other hand, it explores the Chinese side: their intentions, their expectations, and their strategies in this complex creation process.
DVD / 87 minuten in kleur / tekst Engels, Duits, Chinees / 2008
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My Architect / A Son's Journey
Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr
 The mystery of Louis Kahn's life was as compelling as his buildings. Thirty years after his death, his filmmaker son goes in search of the true Lou with the documentary My Architect.
Louis Kahn created some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century: the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California; the National Assembly Building of Bangladesh, in Dhaka. His buildings were monumental, deeply rooted in materials, and full of mystery. And yet the deepest mystery surrounding Kahn remained secret throughout his life. When he died of a heart attack, in a men's room in Penn Station in 1974, obituaries said he was survived by his wife, Esther, and a daughter, Sue Ann. But it turned out that Kahn had lived a life split four ways: work, his traditional family, and two women and the children they bore him. Nathaniel Kahn--son of Harriet Pattison, a landscape architect who worked in the Kahn office--was eleven when his father died. Now 39, the writer and director has recently completed a documentary entitled My Architect, a deeply affecting look at a complicated man. For the film Nathaniel interviewed dozens of architectural luminaries--Vincent Scully, I. M. Pei, Frank Gehry, Robert A. M. Stern--and others, including his half-siblings. Metropolis executive editor Martin C. Pedersen talked to Kahn about the film prior to its screening at the New Directors/New Films Festival in New York.
DVD / 116 minuten in kleur / tekst Engels / 2003
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Rem Koolhaas / A kind of Architect
Markus Heidingsfelder, Min Tesch
 After studies in journalism and architecture, Rem Koolhaas (b. 1944) founded the OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) in 1975. Before designing buildings, however, he caused a furor in 1978 with a theoretical work that soon became famous: Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. The architect of Euralille has gravitated toward all types of architectural design, from the private villa to the office building, from the embassy (Netherlands Embassy in Berlin) to the museum (Guggenheim Heritage Museum in Las Vegas), from the urinal to the train station. Koolhaas has recently designed a cultural centre in Seoul, and he is currently observing the progress of the new CCTV headquarters in Beijing, which must be ready for the 2008 Olympic Games. The author of S, M, L, XL reveals his sensibilities in a provocative aesthetic that combines porn, pop and political activism. This portrait of a man who is difficult to pin down is reinforced with comments from his friends and colleagues, including American architects Joshua Ramus and Richard Meier, and a lively discussion between Koolhaas and German sociologist Dirk Baecker, a specialist in communication and systems theory.
Extra's: interview met Rem Koolhaas (52 min.), Helicoptervlucht over die Casa da música in Porto (10 min.), blik in de Nederlandse Ambassade in Berlijn (10 min.), presentatie Astor Place (60 min.) / 32 pag. booklet
DVD / 97 minuten + 132 minuten extra's / tekst Nederlands, Duits, Engels / 2005
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