Alexander Tzonis Libri

Over the last two decades, Santiago Calatrava has revolutionized the idea of bridges from utilitarian, mechanical instruments into elegant objects that combine technology with poetry to enhance the sense of place and community of their settings. This presentation of thirty of the master architect's celebrated bridges around the world features his iconic creations alongside never-before-published projects, all shown off to stunning effect in crisp colour photography and clear line drawings.

One of the most influential architects of his time, van Eyck had an immediate impact on the buildings of the fifties and sixties. For half a century, van Eyck composed manifestoes, crafted images, and created structures that shaped the critical sensibilities of his contemporaries, a rebel advancing some of the most creative design ideas of this century.

Exploring how Le Corbusier came to create the groundbreaking ideas, buildings and designs that changed the course of 20th-century architecture, this book presents his oeuvre in relation to the revolutionary global developments of the 20th century.

Tropical Architecture presents a selection of essays by architectural historians and theoreticians on key issues in tropical architecture today. Alongside these are examples of work (both architectural and urbanist) from leading tropical architecture practitioners - including emerging practitioners and established architectural stars. Contributors include Ken Yeang, Michael Pearce, Charles Correa and many more.

This fascinating introduction to classical art and architecture is the first book to investigate the way classical buildings are put together as formal structures. It researches the generative rules, the poetics of composition that classical architecture shares with classical music, poetry, and drama, and is enriched by a variety of examples and an extensive analysis of compositional rules. The 205 line drawings make up a discourse of their own, a pictorial text that serves as an introductory theory of composition or basic design aid. Drawing from Vitruvius, the poetics of Aristotle, the theories of classical architecture, music, and poetry since the Renaissance, and the poetics of the Russian formalists, the authors present classical architecture as a coherent system of architectural thinking that is capable of producing a tragic humanistic discourse, a public art with critical, moral, and philosophical meaning.

Englische Originalausgabe erschienen bei Thames and Hudson, 1995

Die klassische griechische Architektur strahlt eine ungebrochene Faszination aus. Sie hat uns nicht nur einzigartige Monumente hinterlassen, sie zeugt auch von Kreativität, Intelligenz und der menschlichen Fähigkeit, die Welt in einer Gemeinschaft zu erdenken und zu erbauen. Ihr Studium ist deshalb so aufregend, weil der Parthenon tatsächlich unser Zeitzeuge ist. Zu Recht hat Le Corbusier von dessen "revolutionärem Geist" gesprochen.§Alexander Tzonis versteht es, Sie wissenschaftlich begründet, aber in klarer, allgemein verständlicher Diktion an diese zeitlosen Bauwerke heranzuführen und über die architektonischen Besonderheitne hinaus ihre kulturellen und sozialen Hintergründe zu erläutern.