Author: Louis SauerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Works of Louis Sauer
Author: Louis SauerFive Masterworks by Louis Sauer
Author: Antonino SaggioPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 147108325X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Louis Sauer is known in the US as one of the greatest housing experts. He achieved national fame when many of his innovative designs were built in Society Hill, the historic colonial neighborhood in Philadelphia. The quality, variety and reasoning behind his creative solutions for the renewal of large areas of old and derelict urban context were the exemplars for those who followed him in this field. The five designs included in this book are selected from the period (1961-79) when Sauer practiced in Philadelphia. His work is exceptional for its variety and wealth of solutions. Some examples are his modernistic forms, intelligent understanding of the history of the locale and the requirements of diverse urban scales. The five works Antonino Saggio is presenting in this publication give a picture of his outstanding design and the ingenuity of his solutions when faced with diverse design challenges and scales. See Interview on this book http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzAFTCJMUR
Works of Louis Sauer Associates
Author: Louis Sauer AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural firms
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Each project folder contains photographs and plans related to named project, with additional design rationale.
Not by Design Alone
Author: Louis SauerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780646867779
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is about events that influenced Louis Sauer's life as a practicing architect, urban designer and teacher, including his exposure in the 1950s-60s to the Bauhaus and the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). The book is for design students, professionals, and those increasingly interested in his masterful body of work in developing innovative medium-density low-rise housing in the USA. Sauer explores how his own life interacted with his work. The 200 pages are filled with narrative and copious photos and illustrations about his architectural career with bits about his painting, urban design, and teaching experiences. Unsure how he came by his intuition of form, its organisation, pattern, or geometric structure came from, Sauer wondered how he designed. Was he dominated by the accident-the contingent? When was he capable of turning accidents into ideas? What were the interactions between emotions, between the intuitive and the conceptually rational sources of inspiration that he may have used in his life, for his designs? Although Sauer had considered himself a Modern movement supplicant he was startled when some of his contemporaries suggested that his work was not Modernist and did not conform to CIAM beliefs. In fact, his work was highly contextual. In contrast to standard Modernist principles Sauer found architecture to be a discipline wherein the creation and realization of a design requires interaction with a range of other people: not solely clients, but a range of participants in the regulatory/development/construction industry, in what Sauer refers to as the 'development process'. Through knowledge of these participants and their relationship to design, architects could provide the less fortunate with better living conditions. For Sauer, architecture is fundamentally social, both in its production and existence. Because identity is so important, clients expect architects to create the character or image of a place, and, in the process, to create or reinforce a sense of identity. Architects do this through design. The more options, the easier Sauer believes it is for people to make choices that reinforce their identity.
Louis Sauer, The Architect of Low-rise High-density Housing
Author: Antonino SaggioPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291005412
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
... As one walks the streets of the Philadelphia, Sauer's buildings stand out for the masterly way he calibrates architectural composition and the varied playfulness of his solutions which, through a complex body of intuitively defined rules, one will find the very essence of Sauer's field of action where he interprets the reality of the setting and its surroundings. This book, then, is an enjoyable, lively read, because it proposes a profoundly democratic architecture that opens individuals' minds, leaves room to the end-user's aesthetic sensibility and presupposes a curious, imagining heart... From the Preface by P. C. Pignatelli L. Sauer, born 1928, FAIA, Hon FRAIA, is an architect, professor and design theorist. Extensive projects have been built in the U.S.A. and Canada where his work is an example of planning and design originality. A. Saggio (1955) teaches Architecture at «Sapienza» University (Rome). He is the founder of the book series "The IT Revolution in Architecture".
Louis Sauer The Architect of Low-rise High-density Housing (color version)
Author: Antonino SaggioPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291674357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
As one walks the streets of the Philadelphia, Sauer's buildings stand out for the masterly way he calibrates architectural composition and the varied playfulness of his solutions which, through a complex body of intuitively defined rules, one will find the very essence of Sauer's field of action where he interprets the reality of the setting and its surroundings. This book, then, is an enjoyable, lively read, because it proposes a profoundly democratic architecture that opens individuals' minds, leaves room to the end-user's aesthetic sensibility and presupposes a curious, imagining heart.
SHoP Works
Author: Stefano ConversoPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1447847482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
This book shows the activity of SHoP Architects as an emblematic example of the research area, the applications and the growing success of a contemporary American office focused on digital technologies for design and construction. What is peculiar of SHoP is the openness to all the different actors of the building process. An intense experimental intention is found in the works of the office, all embedded in a fully contemporary aesthetic dimension, focused on vibration and variation of building components. And the beauty of buildings is much more relevant since it is strictly connected to all pragmatic and technological aspects of architectural practice, and to the search for new paths of invention.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
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ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. 2d Ed., Rev. and Enl
Author: Avery LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Author: Jane Sauer