Title & Author:

More with less / [presented by] Norman Foster (Foster + Partners).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1979.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (27 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Norman Foster (Left) With Buckminster Fuller -- Newport School Competition Entry -- IBM Advance Head Office, Cosham. Element Assembly & Exterior View -- Willis Faber Dumas Insurance HQ. In Its Context In Ipswich -- Willis Faber Dumas Insurance HQ, Ipswich. Building Just Visible -- Willis Faber Dumas Insurance HQ, Ipswich. Section -- Willis Faber Dumas Insurance HQ, Ipswich. By Night -- Willis Faber Dumas Insurance HQ, Ipswich. Wall System -- Willis Faber Dumas Insurance HQ, Ipswich. View Up Escalators -- Willis Faber Dumas Insurance HQ, Ipswich. View Down Escalators -- Willis Faber Dumas Insurance HQ, Ipswich. Roof Garden -- Sainsbury Art Centre -- Sainsbury Art Centre. Roof & Wall Section -- Sainsbury Art Centre. View Through Inner & Outer Walls & The Services Between -- Sainsbury. Art Gallery -- Sainsbury Art Centre. Movable External Panels -- Sainsbury Art Centre & Helicopter -- Sainsbury Art Centre. By Night -- Foster Residence. Model From Above -- Foster Residence. Model -- Climatroffice. Project With Buckminster Fuller -- Hammersmith Centre. Sketch -- Hammersmith Centre. Model -- Glider.

Summary:

Norman Foster and his wife/partner started practising architecture in 1962 with Richard Rogers as Team 4. Separating from him in 1967, they established Foster Associates and rose straight to the top of profession, winning the international Reynolds Aluminium Prize in both 1978 and 1979. The work of the practice has always shown a steady progression and development of ideas. Flexibility to accommodate change, the social implications of design, energy conservation and harvesting, the full integration of services, interior and furniture design, the application of new technologies in an appropriate way, and project management techniques have been developed through many buildings. There is continuing interest in the separation of the short-life systems or parts of a building from the long-life ones. The relationship between theory and design is a recurring theme. And the close collaboration with Buckminster Fuller over the twelve years before this recording in the USA and Europe further inspired the desire to do more with less in the search for higher performance solutions. In this context there has been an increasing tendency to utilise the potential of newer technologies, particularly the aerospace and automobile industries, but also shipbuilding.

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Foster, Norman, 1935- narrator.