Title & Author:

51N4E : double or nothing.

Publication:

London : Architectural Association, ©2011.

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
"This book is published on the occasion of the 51N4E 'Double or nothing' exhibition held at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels from 1 June -- 4 September 2011 and the Architectural Association, London from 1-29 October 2011"--Colophon.
"51N4E is a Brussels-based international practice that concerns itself with matters of space production, i.e. architecture, urbanism and cultural analysis. It was founded in 1998 by Johan Arys, Freek Persyn and Peter Swinnen."--Colophon.

Summary:

""From the Groeninge Museum to the Arteconomy Villa, the buildings and projects of 51N4E appear here as the result of a continuous quest to produce work that is autonomous (even personal) and yet radically open to the World in which we live. The necessary paradoxes that these twin ambitions generate also define a certain tension that characterises the work itself. For both the architects themselves and an onlooking audience this tension seems productive, even necessary, in the sense that it creates architectural environments that are clearly defined but still open, ready to be engaged with and used. This book illustrates a series of distinct projects produced over the first decade of 51N4E, and presents them in a deliberately deadpan sequential arrangement, neither chronological nor thematic but simply positioned with texts on the left-hand side and images on the right. As much as allowing the words and pictures to speak for themselves, this structure enables a double reading (consistent with the title of the exhibition that this book accompanies):to focus on and understand individual projects;.or to leaf through the book as if one big portfolio, forgetting the projects and simply looking at everything in a kind of free association - double or nothing." Brett Steele"-- Back cover.

ISBN:

9781907896095 (pbk.)
1907896090 (pbk.)

Subject:

51N4E (Firm) Exhibitions.
51N4E (Firm)
51N4E Firma
51N4E.
Architectural firms Belgium Brussels Exhibitions.
Agences d'architecture Belgique Bruxelles Expositions.
Architectural firms
Arkitektkontor Belgien.
Belgium Brussels

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Brüssel 2011.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels, Belgium)
Architectural Association (Great Britain)

Double or nothing

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273405
Call No.: BIB 206961
Status: Available