DETAILS IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTUREAsBuilt Series

Christine Killory, René Davids

The saying "the truth is in the details" reveals an essential quality of architectural design. How a staircase curves, a roof seemingly floats, or a concrete wall illuminates are critical questions for architects looking at or creating new work. By looking at the best work of the past two years, Details in Contemporary Architecture, the first volume of a new series entitled AsBuilt, demonstrates how complicated design problems have been handled by architects to achieve beautiful, functional, innovative, sustainable, and, where necessary, economical results. Including work by David Chipperfield, Herzog & de Meuron, Morphosis, SHoP, and many other well-known firms, this book extensively explores both common and more exotic architectural detailing that so often gets lost in the pages and photographs of the design media.

AsBuilt is a new series featuring formal and material innovation in architecture, emphasizing structure and function, and exploring the development and application of new technologies and materials.

2007 / 208 pp / 200 color / 100 b+w / 978-1-56898-576-3 / hc / $55.00