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Peter Hubner
Peter Blundell Jones
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Description for Peter Hubner
Hardcover. Peter Hubner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. In the 1960s, he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildings and sanitary units. This book explores various issues. Num Pages: 358 pages, 500 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; AMB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 310 x 289 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2708.
Text in English and German. Peter Hübner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. In the 1960s he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildings and sanitary units. This expertise gained him a chair in building construction at the University of Stuttgart where, in collaboration with fellow professor Peter Sulzer, he undertook a series of experiments that changed the course of his architecture. It began with an elaboration of the Walter Segal building method, but culminated in a student hostel designed, built and lived-in by architectural students at Stuttgart University's Vaihingen campus. ... Read more
Text in English and German. Peter Hübner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. In the 1960s he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildings and sanitary units. This expertise gained him a chair in building construction at the University of Stuttgart where, in collaboration with fellow professor Peter Sulzer, he undertook a series of experiments that changed the course of his architecture. It began with an elaboration of the Walter Segal building method, but culminated in a student hostel designed, built and lived-in by architectural students at Stuttgart University's Vaihingen campus. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
358
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
2707g
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783932565021
SKU
V9783932565021
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About Peter Blundell Jones
Peter Blundell Jones is professor of architecture at the University of Sheffield and has already published monographs on Hugo Häring (Edition Axel Menges), Hans Scharoun and the new Graz architecture. He is a frequent contributor to The Architectural Review, in which he has reported regularly on contemporary architecture.
Reviews for Peter Hubner
"...[the author] is an excellent guide, because no other writer analysing the way organic architecture turned out during the twentieth century could alert the reader so well to the implications of work as complex as this, nor tie it in so well to the broad historical themes to which it belongs, nor indeed write this story so elegantly and clearly. ... Read more