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lunes, 14 de febrero de 2022

#books #architecture | Works by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 2009-2019

Works by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 2009-2019 / [essays by Sam Lubell].

New York : Monacelli, 2021.
244 p. : il.

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781580935555

Cita APA-7: Lubell, Sam (2021). Works by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: 2009-2019. Monacelli.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72SOM WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1269400929

[.en] Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is one of the most influential architecture studios in the world, with a body of work that includes some of the most important buildings and urban designs of our time. SOM: Works by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 2009-2019 is the sixth and latest volume in the series to cover every era of SOM’s history, from the iconic Modernist works of the 1950s to the projects of today.

Documenting SOM’s global body of work—which ranges from a prototype for a biophilic breathing wall to the new headquarters for NATO in Brussels—SOM: Works by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 2009-2019 demonstrates how SOM has come to hold its unparalleled position as a steward of international architecture. This new volume details SOM’s approach to designing impactful, complex projects in a globalized world—an approach which marries a deep bench of global expertise with a commitment to honoring culture and people in the communities where SOM works.

In this volume, explore SOM’s mission to address the most urgent challenge of our time: climate change. Working in pursuit of a zero-carbon built world, SOM’s designers are pioneering new approaches to adaptive reuse, cultivating emerging technologies including machine learning, inventing new tools to optimize building performance, and beyond.

Organized chronologically, the monograph encompasses SOM’s most significant projects of the past decade, across all building types and locations, highlighting the studio’s unique ability to design and execute complex, technical, and efficient structures. The roster includes Burj Khalifa—the tallest building in the world, Manhattan Loft Gardens, a new vertical community in London, the twisting Ningbo Bank of China headquarters, the ‘floating cube’ new Federal Courthouse in Los Angeles, the master plan for the Cornell Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island, the reimagined Strand Theatre in San Francisco, Chicago’s Optimo Hat Company Headquarters, Denver Union Station, and of course, One World Trade Center.

Through in-depth essays, architecture writer and critic Sam Lubell dives into SOM’s radically rigorous approach to design in today’s complex world, exploring the unique ideas cultivated within the studio and how those ideas are transformed into transformative spaces across the globe. As with the previous five volumes in the series, renowned design studio Pentagram led the book’s design in collaboration with SOM. Featuring 500 images, the book includes thorough profiles and never-before-published photographs, plans, and drawings of the studio’s most recent works.

sábado, 25 de abril de 2020

#books #architecture | Gordon Bunshaft and SOM : building corporate modernism

Gordon Bunshaft and SOM : building corporate modernism / Nicholas Adams.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019.
VII, 288 p. : il.
ISBN 9780300227475

/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Gordon Bunshaft / Nueva York / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72BUNSHAFT GOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126995974

Gordon Bunshaft’s (1909–1990) landmark 1952 design for Lever House reshaped the Manhattan skyline and elevated the reputation of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the firm where he would spend more than 40 years as a partner. Although this enigmatic architect left behind few records, his legacy endures in the corporate headquarters, museums, and libraries that were built in his distinctive modernist style. Bunshaft’s career was marked by shifts in material. Glass and steel structures of the 1950s, such as New York’s Chase Manhattan Bank, gave way to revolutionary designs in concrete, such as the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University and the doughnut-shaped Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Bunshaft’s collaborations with artists, including Isamu Noguchi, Jean Dubuffet, and Henry Moore, were of paramount importance throughout his career.

Nicholas Adams explores the contested line between Bunshaft’s ambition for acclaim as a singular artistic genius and the collaborative structure of SOM’s architectural partnership. Bunshaft received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1988 and remains the only SOM partner to have achieved this distinction. Adams counters Bunshaft’s maxim that “the building speaks for itself” with necessary critical context about this modernist moment at a time when the future of Bunshaft’s iconic works is very much in question.

miércoles, 30 de marzo de 2016

#books #engineering | SOM structural engineering

SOM structural engineering / editor, Christian Schnittich ; translation into English, Terri White, David Wade.
Detail [etc.], München [etc.] : 2015.
144 p. : il.
Colección: Detail Engineering ; 4.
ISBN 9783955532239

Arquitectura -- Siglo XX.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI.
Estructuras -- Diseño.
Estructuras, Ingeniería de.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72SOM SOM
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1825680~S1*spi

With nearly 80 years of experience in integrating architecture and engineering, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s (SOM) work remains groundbreaking, especially when it comes to designing supertalls. Besides addressing the question of "how high can you go", as well as the issues of efficiency and economy, this fourth volume of the ‘Detail’ engineering series presents the theoretical background of SOM’s structural group. On the basis of a variety of projects with their general structural concept or their specific details, the book explains the process of finding corresponding solutions. These solutions illustrate the company's core values: simplicity, clarity, hierarchy, efficiency and continuous reseach. In addition, the projects – from James Turrel Skyspace to Burj Khalifa – are also placed in the context of SOM’s work as a whole using anecdotes from a number of other well-known SOM projects as John Hancock or Sears Tower. This volume considers how to find new structural solutions, as well as how materials can be used innovatively to create "next generation" buildings.

miércoles, 26 de junio de 2013

#libros #arquitectura | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill / Helio Piñón.
General de Ediciones de Arquitectura, Valencia : 2012.
176 p. : todas il. col.
Monografías de Arquitectura (Sin Palabras) ; 2
ISBN 9788493984519

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Estados Unidos.
Biblioteca Sbc Aprendizaje A-72 SKIDMORE SKI
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1733435~S1*spi

Con esta serie de monografías (sin palabras), se invita al espectador a enfrentarse a las imágenes sin ninguna referencia explícita a las obras que, aun con el propsito de ayudar, interfiera en la identificación de sus valores: con ello se anima a recuperar el conocimiento visual como condición de una experiencia estética auténtica: requisito necesario para la práctica de una concepción arquitectónica genuina. He ido tomando las imágenes a lo largo de más de treinta años; todas ellas forman parte del acervo documental que nutre mis clases y, naturalmente, constituye el marco visual en el que se inscribe mi arquitectura. Helio Piñon