Atlas of Novel Tectonics

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Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have been generating one of the vital most provocative thinking in the field for just about twenty years. With Atlas of Novel Tectonics, Reiser+Umemoto hone in at the many facets of architecture and remove darkness from their theories with great thought and simplicity. The Atlas is organized as an accumulation of short chapters that address the workings of matter and force, material science, the lessons of art and architectural history, and the influence of architecture on culture (and vice versa). Reiser+Umemoto see architectural design as a series of problem situations, and each and every chapter is an issue devoted to a specific condition or case.

Influenced by quite a lot of fields and phenomenaBrillat-Savarin’s classic The Physiology of Taste is one of their primary modelsthe authors provide a cross-section of thinking and inspiration. The result is both an elucidation of the concepts that guide Reiser+Umemoto through their own design process and a series of meditations on topics that have formed their own sense as architects. Atlas of Novel Tectonics offers an entirely fresh viewpoint on subjects that are normally taken with no consideration, and does so with a welcome punch and energy.

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