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Block, Philippe & Others

Beyond bending : reimagining compression shells - Munich Detail Business Information 2017 - 190,ip.

Contents
Foreword : 6
La Biennale di Venezia --
Reporting from the front: the war on
bending / Alejandro Aravena -- 11
In the footsteps of Vitruvius /
John Ochsendorf -- 12
Beyond bending 15
Beyond the slab I : 17
Building with weak material -- 20
Beyond the slab II : 33
Building with less material -- 42
Beyond the dome : 55
Exploring form and forces -- 64
Beyond freeform : 79
Extending stereotomy -- 90
The making of the Armadillo Vault : 101
Form and structure : 103
Engineering the extreme: 116
a conversation with Ochsendorf DeJong & Block --
Stereotomy and fabrication : 127
informing geometry: a conversation with the Block Research Group -- 138
Construction and assembly : 147
Balancing craft and machine: a conversation with Escobedo Group -- 170
Afterword : 178
A new research-driven architectural
practice / Gilles Retsin.
Authors 184
Contributors 186
Exhibition and object credits 187
Image Credits 188
Bibliography 190


ISBN: 9783955533908

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Dewey Class. No.: 624.17762 / BLO