Contents
Acknowledgements Ix
Foreword Xiii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 An Alchemy Of Bricks 29
The Teleton Childrens’ Rehabilitation Center + Quincho Tia Coral
Solano Benitez And Gabinete De Arquitectura
Asuncion, Paraguay
Chapter 2 Drawing Without Paper + Building Without Buildings / Large Representations In The Field 61
Copper House Ii, The House With White Net+ Saat Rasta
Bijoy Jain/Studio Mumbai, Mumbai India
Chapter 3
The Impossibly Real / In Pursuit Of New Translations 89
The Physical Motivations Of Round Room + La Voute De Lefevre
Matter Design / Brandon Clifford + Wes Mcgee
Chapter 4 Unpredictable Petrifications / The Unnatural Forms And Transformations Of A Concrete Museum 115
The Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami Florida, Usa
Herzog & De Meuron, Basel Switzerland
Chapter 5 Massive Impressions / The Materials Of Representation 141
The Cite De L’ocean Et Du Surf Museum, Biarritz, France
Steven Holl Architects　
Chapter 6 Acclimated Transformations
The Surprising Materialities Of The Harvard Art Museums And Its Surroundings 171
Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Genoa Italy
Harvard Art Museums Renovation And Expansion, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Usa
Chapter 7 Mocked-Illuminations / The Transformed Environments Refracted In The Complex Surfaces Of 7 World Trade Center 197
Seven World Trade Center, New York City, Usa, 2009
Skidmore Owings & Merrill + James Carpenter Design Associates
Index 227