Material Transfers
Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary Architecture
Françoise Astorg Bollack
The Monacelli Press, December 2020
Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 168 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1580935432 | $50.00
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Architect, architectural historian and preservationist Francoise Bollack explores the use of traditional materials with contemporary forms and the corollary of contemporary materials applied to traditional forms and the blurring of the boundary between the two. Nineteen projects in the US, Europe, Japan, and New Zealand are examined. Among the featured architects are Kengo Kuma, architect of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium, MVRDV, a highly regarded Dutch firm, and Lacaton & Vassal of Paris. Françoise Bollack is the principal of Françoise Bollack Architects, a firm that specializes in preservation and reinvention of historic structures, and a faculty member at the Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
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dDAB COMMENTARY:
A couple chapters in New York architect Françoise Bollack's new book, Material Transfers, are called "Old Forms, New Materials" and "New Forms, Old Materials." These phrases immediately bring to mind Bollack's previous book, Old Buildings, New Forms, from 2013. Evident in the two books is a clear appreciation for old buildings as well as a certain duality between old and new. Bollack has a clear preference for hybrid a...
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