Andreas Constantine Papadakis war eine Schlüsselfigur im Bereich des Architekturverlags. Er war Akademiker und Unternehmer, der den Academy Bookshop eröffnete und Academy Editions gründete. Im Laufe seiner Karriere veröffentlichte er über tausend Titel, die sich hauptsächlich mit Kunst, Architektur und dekorativer Kunst befassten. Seine Arbeit prägte die Landschaft der Kunst- und Architekturpublikationen.
Durch die heutige Architektur können Sie die vielfältige Kreativität zeitgenössischer Designer kennenlernen. Es gibt ein Bild von der internationalen Wiederbelebung der Architektur. Von Robert A.M. Stern an Philippe Starck, von Ricardo Bofill und James Stirling bis Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel und OMA.
Introductory essays discuss the classical tradition in architecture and advocate a resurgence of its principles in modern architecture. Works by some 25 architects working in this vein in the US, the UK, and various countries of Europe are profiled in full-page color photos and explanatory text. No index or bibliography. Distributed by Rizzoli (St. Martin's Press). 9.5x12" Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
The 1980s saw a new generation of architects advocating a rich, pluralist style of architecture, both complex and contradictory, and furnishing proof of its vitality in their work. This book brings together the work of more than forty internationally renowned architects who are representative of this revival.
Traces the postmodern movement, and looks at the works of over one hundred artists, architects and designers
An Intellectual Extravaganza
This is not only a source book of an international array of architects and ideas, an extravaganza of architectural theory and its realisation, but also contains extensive biographies of 35 architects. The fracturing of the barriers between theory and relaity is revealed as architecture moves from the studio and the realm of theory into street - the realm of practice, displaying an architecture of experimentation, invention and freedom. This book forms a rigorous up-to-the-minute view of architectural thinking today, and includes, inter alias, the work of Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman, Morphosis, Coop Himmelblau, Daniel Libeskind and Itsuko Hasegawa.
