Main entry:

Ruby, Ilka.

Title & Author:

Images : a picture book of architecture / Ilka & Andreas Ruby, Philip Ursprung ; [translated from the German by J. Roderick O'Donovan and Fiona Elliot].

Publication:

Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©2004.

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 x 35 cm

Series:

Architecture in focus

Notes:
Built images: performing the city / Philip Ursprung -- Icons -- Pictorial anticipation -- Hybrid representation -- Image processing -- Is it real? -- Totems -- Built cliches -- Image transfer -- Site archeology -- Veiling and unveiling -- Constructed ornament -- Living skins -- Vision machines -- Walkable images -- Built diagrams -- Mapping -- Scenarioscapes -- Tableaux vivants -- Model architect -- Contemporary architecture and the return of the image / Ilka & Andreas Ruby.

Summary:

This title documents the shift from the building as structure to the building as image. This exploration of the use and significance of two-dimensional images in contemporary architecture looks at the works of major designers, including Zaha Hadid, Herzog and de Meuron, Rem Koolhass, and MVRDV, among others.

ISBN:

3791331337 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9783791331331 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Communication in architecture.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architectural design.
Communication en architecture.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Design architectural.
Architecture, Modern.
Architektur
Bild
Gebouwen.
Bouwprojecten.
Architecture (object genre) 1900-2010.

Form/genre:

Bildband.

Added entries:

Ruby, Andreas.
Ursprung, Philip.
Architecture in focus.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 233315
Call No.: NA680 .R78 2004
Status: Available