Description
Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto were producing one of the so much provocative pondering within the box for just about two decades. With Atlas of Novel Tectonics, Reiser+Umemoto hone in at the many sides of structure and light up their theories with nice idea and straightforwardness. The Atlas is arranged as an accumulation of quick chapters that cope with the workings of topic and pressure, subject material technology, the teachings of artwork and architectural historical past, and the affect of structure on tradition (and vice versa). Reiser+Umemoto see architectural layout as a sequence of downside scenarios, and every bankruptcy is a controversy dedicated to a particular situation or case.
Influenced by way of quite a lot of fields and phenomenaBrillat-Savarin’s vintage The Body structure of Taste is considered one of their number one modelsthe authors supply a pass-component of pondering and suggestion. The result’s each an elucidation of the ideas that information Reiser+Umemoto thru their very own layout procedure and a sequence of meditations on topics that experience shaped their very own feel as architects. Atlas of Novel Tectonics gives a completely contemporary viewpoint on topics which are in most cases taken without any consideration, and does so with a welcome punch and effort.
