- Hardcover: 312 pages
- Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG (1 Dec 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 3764360127
- ISBN-13: 978-3764360122
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 24.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 997,054 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Aldo van Eyck, the "Grand Seigneur" of Dutch architecture is one of the most significant architects of the 20th century. He exerted a strong influence on his contemporaries during the fifties and sixties, and this can be seen in many of their buildings, both in the Netherlands and worldwide. It was not merely his way of looking at buildings which was influential but also his perception of architecture; his visual thinking, his way of perceiving and structuring time and space, events and social coexistence. The architectonic treatises hew wrote are still relevant and useful in the 1990s. This publication was produced on the occasion of Aldo van Eyck's 80th birthday in 1998. The architect opened his archive and provided unpublished original texts, plans and photographs. All buildings from 1944 to 1998 are documented in depth.
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A building in the form of an illustration on a flat plane often offers no more than an indication of its qualities. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A great book, really a must-have for anyone not only interested in van Eyck's work but in architecture in general. Has lots and excellent graphical documentations (readable and large drawings along with good photographs and sketches by van Eyck) and explanitanions of each of his buildings and proyects by the dutch master himself. Published with the architect's collaboration this book offers a detailed whole view of his proyects and also his ideas and poetics ( the dialetics of the "twin phenomena", relativity, etc); completed by texts van eyck wrote for the Forum magazine and the CIAMs. I strongly recommend this book, which I believe with Strauven's Shape of Relativity to be the only monographs on the architect, both excellent books being this one more practical than Strauven's.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A prize
5 Feb 2010
Format:Hardcover
I took a chance and bought this book. I love it. Quality hardcover with sturdy well designed dust jacket. Comprehensive in depth career spanning content. Well documented with photographs and drawings. Well written.
absolutely beautiful.
27 Dec 2010
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this book is gorgeous. the photos are amazing and the information is fantastic. i wrote a paper on aldo for a history of modern architecture and got all of the info i needed from this one book. he is an amazing man and this book truly captures his humanitarian essence!!!! love.
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Aldo van EycK
23 Jun 2000
Format:Hardcover
Es un genio del siglo XX. Y espero un precedente de la revolución del XXI. Lamentablemente holandés solo traducido al inglés.
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