Bunshaft: Form Through Tectonics
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Author: Nicolás Sica Palermo
The works of Gordon Bunshaft, developed while working for the multinational architectural firm SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), put together a number of concrete and abstract elements that fully reflected the modern movement during the years of its maximum artistic expression. Along four decades, his production accompanied technological advances, the state of the art and some cultural and social changes in the US, which are revealed in this monograph.In the early fifties, Bunshaft's Lever House attracted fame and commissions, becoming a paradigm for new modern office buildings projects. The evolution of SOM’s design and construction processes generated a wide variety of formal solutions during the 50s. Fundamental to this process, the work organisation of the firm was based on three fundamental aspects: modern architecture, American organisational methods and expertise, and development of techniques and industrialised building materials. Towards the sixties, SOM projects started to have more expressive and technically refined structures, which enhanced formal attributes and gained more functions than usual. The triad of SOM—modern architecture, North American organisational methods and the mastery and development of available industrialised construction techniques and materials—fully supported him.
ISBN 9781961856912. ORO Editions. pb. 206 pages.
not yet published
The works of Gordon Bunshaft, developed while working for the multinational architectural firm SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), put together a number of concrete and abstract elements that fully reflected the modern movement during the years of its maximum artistic expression. Along four decades, his production accompanied technological advances, the state of the art and some cultural and social changes in the US, which are revealed in this monograph.In the early fifties, Bunshaft's Lever House attracted fame and commissions, becoming a paradigm for new modern office buildings projects. The evolution of SOM’s design and construction processes generated a wide variety of formal solutions during the 50s. Fundamental to this process, the work organisation of the firm was based on three fundamental aspects: modern architecture, American organisational methods and expertise, and development of techniques and industrialised building materials. Towards the sixties, SOM projects started to have more expressive and technically refined structures, which enhanced formal attributes and gained more functions than usual. The triad of SOM—modern architecture, North American organisational methods and the mastery and development of available industrialised construction techniques and materials—fully supported him.
ISBN 9781961856912. ORO Editions. pb. 206 pages.
not yet published