10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEGASTRUCTURE»
Discover the use of
megastructure in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
megastructure and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Changing of the Avant-garde: Visionary Architectural ...
URBAN FICTION In 1972, the British architectural historian, Reyner Banham,
announced the fate of modern architecture's latest incarnation at a talk he gave in
Naples: "The megastructure is dead, and thus the time has come to write its
history.
Terence Riley, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), 2002
2
Megastructure Schiphol: Design in Spectacular Simplicity
This is not merely due to the efforts of its designers, who have strived to achieve a spectacular simplicity. Other factors, such as its location in a polder and the local planning culture, have also played a role.
3
Archigram: Architecture Without Architecture
54 At this point, the megastructure still appealed to Archigram as a way of "
framing" (making architectural sense of) the expendable, transient functions of
the city. "UNIVERSAL STRUCTURE Can at once GALVANISE and DISCIPLINE a
...
4
Architectures of Poetry
The relationship of the structural and the subjective in built space, a key aspect of
the Megastructure, is illustrated in a well-known moment of Megastructure history
Le Coubusier's Algiers plan from 1931 and its Fort 1'Empereur. Reyner ...
María Eugenia Díaz Sánchez, Craig Douglas Dworkin, 2004
5
Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of ...
Basedon fundamentallydifferent conceptionsofthe relationship betweenthe
partandthewhole inthe composition within megastructure and group ofacity, two
competing ideasemerged theMetabolist movement: form.Kikutake, Kurokawa,
Tange ...
6
Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future
135 A megastructure like Cumbernauld shows the influences on mainstream
architecture of the ideas we examined in chapter 3. Mainstream it was, and on its
completion in late 1966/early 1967, it received several design awards as well as
...
7
Ventures in Social Interpretation
A cross-ring structure, connecting the relatively high-level and low-level
components of Megastructure, will lie above an area between the two, and this
area will contain schools, churches, hospitals and municipal, administrative units.
At one ...
8
Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future
The "mega- structure" — a single, vast, unified structure, encompassing all areas
of human acitivity — became the central visionary vehicle of the 1960s and '70s.
The megastructure represented a new variation on the search for order that has ...
Joseph J. Corn, Katherine Chambers, 1996
9
Expo 67: Not Just a Souvenir
Among its contributions to architecture culture, the 1967 Universal and
International Exhibition, the world's fair commonly known as Expo 67, came to be
celebrated as emblematic of avant-gardist theories on the 'megastructure.' A
symbol of ...
Rhona Richman Kenneally, Johanne Sloan, 2010
10
Future Forms and Design For Sustainable Cities
The. City. and. the. Megastructure. Introduction Are megastructures a form of
sustainable development and do they hold any promise as a mode of urban
development? It is believed that Fumihiko Maki invented the term in 1960s to
describe ...
Mike Jenks, Nicola Dempsey, 2006
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEGASTRUCTURE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
megastructure is used in the context of the following news items.
Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium design 'doomed from the start'
... Kengo Kuma and Sou Fujimoto, the petition gained more than 80,000 signatures - the same as the capacity as the planned megastructure. «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
The troubled history of Zaha Hadid's Tokyo Olympic stadium project
... Kengo Kuma and Sou Fujimoto, the petition gained over 80,000 signatures – the same as the capacity as the planned megastructure. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
FEATURE: Monthly Mangaka Spotlight: Tsutomu Nihei
Blame! followed Killy, an enigmatic character wandering through the innards of a massive building known only as the Megastructure, seeking a ... «Crunchyroll News, Jul 15»
Changi Airport Terminal 4 to be ready in 2017
Meanwhile, The Straits Times has discovered that Terminal 5 – a megastructure slated to open in 10 years – is going to be 10 times the size of ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
Infrastructure Minister Deplores Lack of Knowledge to Implement …
... Minister Bodha highlighted the advantages of PPP namely the possibility for the State to have a megastructure which it cannot afford through ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
Terminal 4 to be ready in 2017: 5 things about Changi Airport
Meanwhile, The Straits Times has discovered that Terminal 5 - a megastructure slated to open in 10 years - is going to be 10 times the size of ... «The Straits Times, Jul 15»
In Paris, Chanel Bets the House
... one thing happened just as expected: The designer Karl Lagerfeld built an entirely new structure within the glass-domed megastructure that ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Would You Visit A Theme Park That Wants To Crush, Burn, And …
Resembling a megastructure with a largely uncovered facade, the park would have nine attractions. Entering the park, visitors would first pass ... «Co.Design, Jul 15»
Attitudes beginning to evolve
Each year, $15 million from two gambling-related pots helps pay for Consol Energy Center, the white-roofed megastructure that is home to the ... «Bend Bulletin, Jul 15»
Attitudes beginning to evolve on sports gambling
Each year, $15 million from two gambling-related pots helps pay for Consol Energy Center, the white-roofed megastructure that"™s home to ... «GoErie.com, Jun 15»
