TY - BOOK AU - Pran, Peter C. AU - Mayne, Thom AU - Libeskind, Daniel AU - Maki, Fumihiko TI - Peter Pran: realizations. SN - 9781864701944 AV - NA737.P66 P48 2007 U1 - 720.92 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia PB - Images Publishing , KW - Pran, Peter C. KW - NBBJ Firm KW - Local KW - Architecture, Modern KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Architects KW - Biography N1 - Include index; Include Bibliography; Thom Mayne -- Daniel Libeskind -- Odile Decq -- Fumihiko Maki -- Telenor world headquarters -- 505 Union Station, Vulcan headquarters -- The Sail @ Marina Bay -- New Terminal, Las Vegas international airport -- Seoul dome -- New York psychiatric institute -- Binghamton univesity, SUNY -- New York police academy -- 163 Castlereagh tower -- Bergognone-Hines office building -- Ministry of justice and ministry of the interior -- Akerselva atrium -- Beijing central business district (CBD) financial center -- Kwun Tong town center -- World trade center -- Dallas/Fort Worth international airport, arrival/maintenance buildling -- JKF international airport -- Cultural foundation -- Oslo hotel/conference center -- Viking stadium -- Landscape Meridiana office building -- Kendall Square medical office building -- Manggarai central train station -- Graha Kuningan -- PMR headquarters -- TNB tower -- Oil company headquarters -- Portofino diamond C apartment tower -- Deloitte & Touche headquarters -- Banco popular, Quito -- Banco popular, Ibarra -- New Rikshospital -- School of architecture, University of Minnesota -- Schibsted group newspaper headquarters -- Early works -- Student projects -- An architecture of complexity: the work of Peter Pran, by Fumihiko Maki -- The return to modernism by Christian Norberg-Schulz -- Peter Pran and the modern position, by Juhani Pallasmaa -- Altered reality, by Peter Pran -- N2 - "Peter Pran is one of the foremost advocates of the school of Modernity, an era that has been characterized by a world of constantly increasing complexity and an implicit human will to understand this world rationally. In Pran's work one can see the attraction to modern reason and technology, yet one can also recognize the expression of an artistic movement that embraces a poetic quality." "This beautifully presented publication stands as a testament not only to the influence of Modernity, but the work of an internationally acclaimed architect whose designs build on a fragmentary aesthetic of floating, planar elements that seem to deny gravity and blur distinctions between inside and outside space. Pran's use of curved surfaces in closejuxtaposition to orthogonal lines creates considerable tension within and between spaces." "In Pran's works, which are characterized by sweeping lines and movement, curvature acts horizontally as well as vertically, and spatial dynamism becomes comprehensive, without contradicting the fundamental dichotomy of up and down." "Examples of his extraordinary ability to design spaces that are not only rational but also experiment with more complex forms are the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the New York Police Academy, and most recently, the Telenor Headquarters scheme in Norway, and the Sail@Marina Bay in Singapore. The Telenor building alone is proof of Pran's ability to choreograph a multinational design team through a complex process of experimentation, discovery, and execution."--Jacket ER -