Title & Author:

Being the mountain : PRODUCTORA / concept, PRODUCTORA (Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles) ; contributors, Carlos Bedoya, Frank Escher, Wonne Ickx, Véronique Patteeuw, Jesús Vassallo.

Publication:

Chicago, IL, USA : IITAC Press ; New York : Actar Publishers, [2020]

Description:

96 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm

Notes:
"This book is an outcome of two studios we taught at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago in 2017 and 2018, whose line of research continued in a symposium and exhibition held at S.R. Crown Hall in November 2018"--Page 11.
Includes bibliographical references.
Being the mountain : Legorreta's hotel at Ixtapa / Wonne Ickx -- Topographic architecture : Kenneth Frampton's interest in the ground / Véronique Patteeuw -- On tents and caves / Frank Escher -- Geologic gestures / Jesús Vassallo -- Badlands of modernism / Wonne Ickx -- Elevated surface depressed / Carlos Bedoya.

Summary:

The result of research PRODUCTORA initiated as winners of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Practice at Illinois Institute of Technology, Being the Mountain examines the relationship between architecture and the ground it occupies, an interaction so obvious--a building must touch the ground--that it often remains underexplored. Richly illustrated contributions by Carlos Bedoya, Frank Escher, Wonne Ickx, Véronique Patteeuw, and Jesús Vassallo revisit significant moments in architectural history that cast new light on the techniques and legacies of modernism, especially in settings like Mexico and California, where architects such as Ricardo Legorreta and John Lautner incorporated dramatic natural topography in their agendas. Additional essays investigate the role of the ground in the thought of Kenneth Frampton in the 1980s and Luis Moreno Mansilla in the 1990s, as well as point to important parallels between premodern land practices, twentieth-century art, and today's architecture--Website of Actar Publishers.

ISBN:

9781948765510 hardcover
1948765519 hardcover

Subject:

Productora (Firm)
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Organic architecture.
Building sites.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture organique.
Chantiers de construction.
organic architecture.
building sites.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Productora (Firm). Works. Selections.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308268
Call No.: BIB 253699
Status: Available