- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers; illustrated edition edition (Jun 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 3907078853
- ISBN-13: 978-3907078853
- Product Dimensions: 24.7 x 17.2 x 3.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 683,455 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More than any of their contemporaries, the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (both b. 1950) are challenging the boundaries between architecture and art. Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History explores that challenge, examining how the work of these architects has drawn upon the art of both past and present and brought architecture into dialogue with the art of our time. Echoing an encyclopedia, this publication, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, reflects the "natural history museum" structure of the exhibition.
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layers of history, time, artifacts, translated into architecture, 3 Jun 2006
By mdr "mdr" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Herzog and De Meuron: Natural History (Hardcover)
I don't think this is an "object book" but a book in which herzog & de meuron want readers to understand their work like an archaelogical history. you cannot flip through it like an photographic architectural essay, but you really have to sit down, have a cup of coffee/tea, and really read the book, think about what they are saying, how other ideas such as art, history, materials, cultural, industrial changes, and etc. are interacting to their architectural process. certainly, they have the depth in their thoughts to publish a book that doesn't depend on photographs/architectural drawings. quite refreshing.
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Herzog & De Meuron: Natural History, 11 April 2003
By Michael Webb - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Herzog and De Meuron: Natural History (Hardcover)
Another object book with content that matches the originality of the design. Herzog & De Meuron, the Basel-based architects, are best known for their art museums, but also for creating buildings that are works of art--even when the program is as mundane as a railroad signal box. This companion to the recent CCA exhibition is an anthology of interviews, stimulating essays by artists and clients, and pictures of objects that have inspired them, in addition to an illustrated catalogue of their 200 buildings and projects. (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)
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art of H & DeM, 16 Mar 2007
By archaalto - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History (Paperback)
H & DeM have always been influenced by art & you can even argue that their body of work could be an entire exhibiton. This book follows up some of their selected projects with interviews of the architects themselves as well as the collaborative artists. It does well to probe into theie unique process of design & actualization of their work. Jaques Herzog says that Art is roughly 20 years ahead of architecture. This vivid book clearly shows the great accomplishments by two men who are constantly trying to even up the odds between art & architecture through inspirations from the natural world.
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