Main entry:

Fentress, C. W., author.

Title & Author:

Civic builders / Curtis W. Fentress ; Robert Campbell [and others].

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Chichester ; New York : Wiley-Academy, 2002.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
Introduction -- civic exuberance / Curtis W. Fentress -- Barbarians strip the palace / Robert Campbell -- Making civic places three tales from California / Donlyn Lyndon -- Forms of government / John Morris Dixon -- Open government in a cynical age / Charles Jencks -- Civic future / Coleman Coker -- Saynatsalo Town Hall and Library, Saynatsalo, Finland / Alvar Aalto -- Toronto city hall, Toronto, Canada / Viljo Revell -- Boston city hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA / Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles -- Dallas city hall, Dallas, Texas, USA / I.M. Pei and Partners -- Logrono town hall, Logrono, Spain / Rafael Moneo -- Portland public services building, Portland, Oregon, USA / Michael Graves and Associates -- James R. Thompson center, Chicago, Illinois, USA / Murphy/Jahn -- Mississauga city hall, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada / Jones and Kirkland -- Parliament House, Canberra, Australia / Mitchell/Giurgola andThorp Architects (MGT) -- Newcastle town hall, Newcastle, Ontario, Canada / Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated -- Beverly Hills civic center expansion, Beverly Hills, California, USA / Charles Moore/Urban Innovations Group -- Fresno city hall, Fresno, California, USA / Arthur Erickson Architects -- Tokyo city hall, Tokyo, Japan / Kenzo Tange -- Onjuku town hall, Onjuku, Japan / Michael Graves and Associates -- Jerusalem city hall, Jerusalem, Israel / Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated -- La Fleche town hall, La Fleche, France / Adrien Fainsilber -- Ottawa city hall, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada / Moshe Safdie -- Les Bouches du Rhone regional government building, Marseille, France / Alsop Architects -- WLV GMBH office building, Munster, Germany / Architekturburo Bolles and Wilson and Partner -- Clark County government center, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA / Fentress Bradburn -- Hague city hall and library, The Hague. Netherlands / Richard Meier -- Vidhan Bhavan, State Assembly, Bhopal, India / Charles Correa -- BGW (health services and welfare care) office building, Dresden, Germany / Log Id -- Canton of Vaud administrative building, Morges, Switzerland / Luscher and Partners BAC Morges -- City of Oakland administration buildings, Oakland, California, USA / Fentress Bradburn -- Provinciehuis, The Hague, Netherlands / Kohn Pedersen Fox -- Murcia town hall extension, Murcia, Spain / Rafael Moneo -- Valdemaqueda town hall, Valdemaqueda, Spain / Paredes Pedrosa -- European parliament, Strasborg, France / Architecture-Studio Paris -- The new German parliament/Reichstag, Berlin, Germany / Foster and Partners -- La Haute-Garonne regional government building, Toulouse, France / Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates -- Chamber of commerce and industry of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia / Sadar Vuga Arhitekti -- Berlin Chancellery, Berlin, Germany / Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank -- Seattle civic center, city hall, Seattle, Washington, USA / Bassetti Architects and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson -- Seattle civic center, justice center, Seattle, Washington, USA / NBBJ -- Seattle civic center, civic plaza, Seattle, Washington, USA / Gustafson Partners and Swift and Company -- City of Sacramento administrative building, Sacramento, California, USA / Fentress Bradburn -- Cyprus house of representatives, Nicosia, Cyprus / Kohn Pedersen Fox -- Austin city hall, Austin, Texas, USA / Antoine Predock -- San Jose civic center, San Jose, California, USA / Richard Meier and Partners.
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Summary:

The latest edition in the successful Builders Series, Civic Builders contains international coverage of government buildings and city halls. Commencing with an introduction on the history of civic buildings, this volume goes on to showcase 30 contemporary case studies by world renown architects, including Foster and Partners, Richard Meir and Helmut Jahn. Each project is fully illustrated by the incorporation of texts, plans and photos of civic buildings. Civic life is not only about the authority of government and the duties of citizens, but should also encompass passion and imagination. Civic Builders presents recent municipal buildings around the world that subscribe to this attitude: they all demonstrate a quality of playfulness and liveliness, whilst maintaining their dignity and power. The book focuses on the city hall, where people have the most direct experience of government, both on the purely symbolic level and in the nitty-gritty of governmental functions. Organised chronologically, it begins with Säynätsalo Town Hall in Finland and three North American city halls: Toronto, Boston and Dallas. The Post-Modernist Portland Building, the James R. Thompson Center and Mississauga City Hall take us into the 1980s, followed by a profusion of intriguing civic buildings that began to emerge in Europe, North America and Asia in the 1990s - including Ottawa City Hall, the Vidhan Bhavan, La Flc̈he Town Hall, Murcia Town Hall and the Clark County Government Center, which is shown on the cover. It concludes with several projects in the United States that are still on the drawing board. Beyond city halls, the book includes legislative buildings such as the Reichstag (1999) and the European Parliament Building (1999); some buildings that are only symbolically public, such as the Berlin Chancellery (2001) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (1999); and designs that show civic imagination can flourish even in the service of administration. It is possible to see in these buildings a warmth and welcome, and a sense of connection to community. They bring to mind the base meaning of 'metropolis', whose roots are literally 'mother-city'.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0471498769
9780471498766

Subject:

Municipal buildings.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Bâtiments municipaux.
Architecture 20e siècle.
municipal buildings.
Architecture, Modern.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

Campbell, Robert, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225052
Call No.: NA44.F3425.A35 2002
Status: Available