Groundscapes
Groundscapes: Other Topographies
Dominique Perrault
Editions HYX, December 2016
Paperback | 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 208 pages | 265 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-2910385989 | 28 ?
Publisher Description:
In this book, the architect Dominique Perrault presents his thoughts on the architecture of the "Groundscape". An idea, a concept, the architect has been exploring and experimenting with for many years in his projects and through his fictions. "It is a work on shaping reality, through subterranean architecture, where is not a question of living but of marking and carving out places for urban life in the earth, this epidermis open to the sky".
dDAB Commentary:
If there is one architect who could be best associated with buildings that merge with the land, or "landscrapers" (as in the title of the 2002 book by Aaron Betsky), or "groundscapes," or whatever one wants to label them, it's Dominique Perrault. His French National Library from 1989 placed a sunken garden at the center of four "open-book" towers; the Velodrome and Olympic Swimming Pool from ten years later depressed a circle and a square into a raised landscape; and the Ewha Womans University from 2008 featured a Michael Heizer-esque cut through two parallel wings. These projects illustrate that Perrault spends a good deal of time thinking about how buildings relate to the landscape they sit upon, how they can be cut into the ...
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