TY - BOOK AU - Crosbie,Michael J. AU - Pelli,Cesar TI - Cesar Pelli: recent themes. SN - 9783764359027 AV - NA737.P39 C76 1998 U1 - 720.92 22 PY - 1998/// CY - Basel, Boston PB - Birkhäuser , KW - Pelli, Cesar KW - Architecture KW - United States KW - History KW - Themes, motives KW - 20th century KW - Local KW - Architecture, Modern N1 - Introduction to the architecture of Cesar Pelli -- Technology, enclosure, and expression -- Museum of Modern Art expansion and renovation, New York, New York -- Owens Corning World Headquarters, Toledo, Ohio -- NTT Shinjuku Headquarters building, Tokyo, Japan -- Edificio República, Buenos Aires, Argentina -- US Federal Courthouse, Brooklyn, New York -- Herring Hall at Rice University, Houston, Texas -- Campus design -- Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York -- Mathematics building and lecture hall at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey -- Physics and astronomy building at University of Washington-Seattle, Seattle, Washington -- Humanities and social sciences building at University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California -- University of Texas at Austin master plan, Austin, Texas -- Urban placemaking -- Abandoibarra master plan, Bilbao, Spain -- Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- Celebration town cinema, Celebration, Florida -- Zürich Tower, The Hague, Netherlands -- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan -- Public and cultural spaces -- Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio -- Performing Arts Center of Greater Miami, Miami, Florida -- Chubu Teiju Culture Center, Kurayoshi, Japan -- Mystic Marinelife Aquarium and Sea Research Foundation, Mystic, Connecticut -- Terminal at Washington National Airport, Washington DC -- Project data -- N2 - "This book presents more than twenty of Pelli's current projects in America, Asia, and Europe. It documents, among other, such diverse solutions as Edificio República in Buenos Aires, Zürich Tower in Den Haag, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Washington National Airport, NTT Headquarters in Tokyo, and of course the famed Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. In their diversity, these buildings show the extraordinary range and versatility of this architect. In four chapters, the author carefully analyzes Pelli's design approaches and philosophy. Particular value is assigned to the respectful integration of a work with the existing context, as Pelli explains: 'A building must be both background and foreground. As foreground, it must have some exceptional qualities. But it must also try very hard to knit into the fabric of the city'"--Bookjacket ER -