Constructions - Philippe Samyn
constructies
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KORTE INHOUD
The book presents a vast panorama of the prolific and imaginative work of Philippe Samyn and Partners, placing it in context among the architectural movements of the last forty years. Their great achievement is the balance they have struck between architecture and engineering in a remarkable synthesis of spatial and structural concepts and the physical laws of construction.
In the history of contemporary architecture, this position relates to that of rare innovators like Victor Horta, Frank Lloyd Wright, Auguste Perret or Jean Prouvé. It also links to the premises of the Modern Movement concerning the necessity of symbiosis between form, function and technique. Notable in this respect has been their continuous research into sustainable development with a strong emphasis on integration into the urban or rural environment.
Though sometimes spectacular, it never indulges in gratuitous exhibitionism, courting fashion and notoriety. Rather it cultivates its own sense of harmony through the correctness of its proport...
In the history of contemporary architecture, this position relates to that of rare innovators like Victor Horta, Frank Lloyd Wright, Auguste Perret or Jean Prouvé. It also links to the premises of the Modern Movement concerning the necessity of symbiosis between form, function and technique. Notable in this respect has been their continuous research into sustainable development with a strong emphasis on integration into the urban or rural environment.
Though sometimes spectacular, it never indulges in gratuitous exhibitionism, courting fashion and notoriety. Rather it cultivates its own sense of harmony through the correctness of its proport...
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Cet ouvrage n'offre pas seulement un large apercu de l'oeuvre etendue et extremement creative de Philippe Samyn and Partners, mais la confronte aussi aux evolutions qui ont marque l'architecture internationale ces quarante dernieres annees. Chaque projet temoigne d'un bel equilibre entre architecture et engineering, ou organisation de l'espace, projet structurel et physique de la construction interagissent multilateralement. Philippe Samyn and Partners jouent ainsi dans l'architecture contemporaine le role ...
