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Krier R
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 704 pages, 590 illus. BIC Classification: AFKB; AGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 131 x 44. Weight in Grams: 976.
The architect is at all times also an artist. How otherwise would he be able to tame the three-dimensionality of space and subdue the urges of physics and structural mechanics with the creations of his fantasy? This creativity is however mostly restricted purely to its own field. Rob Krier is an exception. For years, he has seen his love of art as a vocation -- one which he nurtures parallel to his work in construction. Fine art should stand in dialogue with architecture and it is Krier's ambition to have iconographic themes brought into the latter, so that they might ... Read more
The architect is at all times also an artist. How otherwise would he be able to tame the three-dimensionality of space and subdue the urges of physics and structural mechanics with the creations of his fantasy? This creativity is however mostly restricted purely to its own field. Rob Krier is an exception. For years, he has seen his love of art as a vocation -- one which he nurtures parallel to his work in construction. Fine art should stand in dialogue with architecture and it is Krier's ambition to have iconographic themes brought into the latter, so that they might ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
704
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681666
SKU
V9783936681666
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About Krier R
Rob Krier is an architect and influential theorist for architecture and urban planning. Born and raised in Luxembourg, he moved to Vienna after having studied in Munich and worked for Oswald Mathias Ungers and Frei Otto. Today he resides in Berlin and Liguria. After teaching posts in Stuttgart and Lausanne, he was a professor of architecture at Vienna Technical University ... Read more
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