Herzog De Meuron 1992 1996

Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron (with their partners Harry Gugger and Christine Binswanger) undoubtedly rank amongst the leading architects worldwide. Volume 3 of their Complete Works is enlarged by some 40 pages and approximately 80 colour illustration

More than any of their contemporaries, Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are challenging the boundaries between architecture and art. Natural History explores that challenge, examining how the work of this formidable pair 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 reflects the natural history museum structure of the exhibition which it accompanies, organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Models and projects by Herzog & de Meuron, as well as by other artists, are structured around six thematic portfolios that suggest an evolutionary history of the architects' work: Appropriation & Reconstruction, Transformation & Alienation, Stacking & Compression, Imprints & Moulds, Interlocking Spaces, and Beauty & Atmosphere. Each section is introduced with a statement from Herzog, and more than 20 artists, scholars, and architects have contributed essays, including Carrie Asman, Georges Didi-Huberman, Kurt W. Forster, Boris Groys, Ulrike Meyer Stump, Peggy Phelan, Thomas Ruff, Rebecca Schneider, Adolf Max Vogt, and Jeff Wall.

Zum 40. Geburtstag des weltweit führenden Architekturbüros Herzog & de Meuron legen wir die ersten drei Bände des Gesamtwerks als preisgünstige Studienausgabe auf. Die originalgetreuen Reprints präsentieren umfassend sämtliche Bauten und Entwürfe von den Anfängen 1978 bis ins Jahr 2000. Während die ersten 50 Projekte in vierzehn Jahren entstanden, verkürzte sich die Schlagzahl für die weiteren 50 auf vier und dann sogar auf nur drei Jahre; zeitgleich wuchs auch die Größe der Projekte. In faszinierenden Zeitdokumenten lässt sich die Entwicklung des Büros in den ersten beiden Jahrzehnten nachvollziehen: von der Realsierung lokaler Projekte hin zu weltweit bekannten Ikonen wie der Tate Modern und der Dominus Winery.

Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture – both a site of positive knowledge and a site of error, confusion, and loss. Nevertheless, in literary studies and in the humanities, including book history, the figure of the library remains in many senses under-researched. This collection brings together established and up-and-coming researchers from a number of practices – literary and cultural studies, gender studies, book history, philosophy, visual culture, and contemporary art –with an effective historical sweep ranging from the time of Sumer to the present day. In the context of the rise of archive studies, this book attends specifically and meta-critically to the figure of the library as a particular archival form, considering the traits that constitute (or fail to constitute) the library as institution or idea, and questions its relations to other accumulative modes, such as the archive in its traditional sense, the museum, or the filmic or digital archive. Across their diversity, and in addition to their international standard of research and writing, each chapter is unified by commitment to analyzing the complex cultural politics of the library form.

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the worldwide leading architectural practice Herzog & de Meuron, we are publishing the second volume of the Complete Works as an accessible paperback edition. The reprint, in original format, comprehensively present all buildings and designs from 1989 up to the year 1991. The development of the practice over the first years can be tracked in fascinating documents of the time.

Lettering on buildings and in the public realm affects our environment. The core of this manual is formed by archigraphy projects that represent a strategy of how architecture can be enriched by graphic elements. The structural, material or visual methods can thus be used as inspiration for the reader’s own designs. A compilation of lettering techniques, advice on project management, make this manual a tool for architects and graphic designers.

On Site~ISBN 0-87070-499-0 U.S. $45.00 / Paperback, 9 x 10.5 in. / 280 pgs / 295 color and 165 b&w. ~Item / February / Architecture Featuring 36 buildings that have made Spain a center for architectural innovation and excellence.