Main entry:

Balmond, Cecil, 1943- artist.

Title & Author:

Crossover / Cecil Balmond.

Publication:

Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, [2013]
©2013

Description:

689 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 19 cm

Notes:
"Balmond's sequel to Informal includes projects with Anish Kapour, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, plus art projects, exhibitions, and theory essays"--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Marsyas: a tympanum of fabric -- Serpentine 2002: subversion of the box typology -- Danzer: 3D tiling and fractal packing -- Weave: coiling DNA bridge -- Notes from the edge of space -- Coimbra: an asymmetrical legend -- Gretna border landmark: electromagnetic field sculpture -- Conceptual models -- H_edge: zerofinity of solid void -- CCTV: Central China Television headquarters: art + building -- Pavilion: experiment in material and form 2002/4/5/6 -- Crossover -- Battersea masterplan: a mobile sense of plan -- Temenos: graphing the sky -- Time and dimension -- Taichung Opera House: a seduction of volumes -- Orbit: travelling line as labyrinth -- Sequence and series.

Summary:

This text invites readers into the author's creative process as he documents his most innovative projects in art, architecture, and bridge design. This book outlines more than a dozen international projects and five theoretical chapters that embody the notion of Crossover which Balmond describes as the movement between Metaphor and Substance through Pattern. Navigating between the ideal and the pragmatic, Balmond creates balance between the poetic and the essential. Crossover presents Balmond s thoughts and musings and charts his conceptual journey from the original fleeting idea to finished product. Photographs, drawings, and plans for each project accompany never seen before journal notes, sketches, and in-depth commentary. The book includes the Weave Bridge at the University of Pennsylvania ; the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions at London s Kensington Gardens ; ArcelorMittal Orbit at the site of the London 2012 Olympics; and the world renowned CCTV tower in Beijing.

ISBN:

3791345222 (cloth)
9783791345222 (cloth)

Subject:

Balmond, Cecil, 1943-
Balmond, Cecil 1943-
Architects Great Britain Designs and plans.
Structural engineering.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Designs and plans.
Architectes Grande-Bretagne Dessins et plans.
Technique de la construction.
Design architectural.
Architecture 21e siècle Dessins et plans.
structural engineering.
Architecture and Planning.
Architects
Architecture, Modern
Architektur
Baustatik
Tragwerk
Architekturtheorie
Bauentwurf
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284352
Call No.: BIB 223119
Status: Available