TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ponzini,Davide
ED  - Ponzini, Davide
TI  - The faces of contemporary cities
SN  - 9788891838759
AV  - NA9095 F33 2024
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Rizzoli International Publications Inc.
KW  - Permasteelisa
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - City planning
KW  - Historic buildings
KW  - Illustrated works
KW  - Architecture and history
KW  - Architecture and transnationalism
N1  - Introduction : Faces of contemporary cities and the transnational circulation of architectural technologies / Davide Ponzini --
Chapter 1 : Contemporary architecture to the test of the history of constructors / Paolo Scrivano --
Chapter 2 : Digital mass-customization and the rise of the nonstandard architectural envelope / Mario Carpo --
Chapter 3 : The assemblage of city faces: Transnational networks, architectural projects, and urban effects / Davide Ponzini --
Chapter 4 : Networks of architectural production: Behind the fac̦ade of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie / Johannes Dreher and Joachim Thiel --
Chapter 5 : Transnational histories and the geographies of the Permasteelisa Group, 1973-2022 / Marco Antonio and Minozzo Gabriel --
P.154 Selected Projects: 
SAS Royal Hotel P.156 Copenhagen, 1960 --
Sydney Opera House P.160 Sydney, 1973 --
Lloyd’s Building P. 164 London, 1986 --
Bank of China Tower P.170 Hong Kong 1990 --
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao P.176 Bilbao,1997 --
Glories Tower P.182 Barcelona, 2005 --
Hearst Tower P. 186 New York, 2006 --
HQ Building P.190 Adu Dhabi, 2010 --
The Shard P.194 London, 2012 --
UniCredit Tower P.200 Milan, 2012 --
Elbphilharmonie P.206 Hamburg, 2016 --
M + P.210 Hong Kong, 2021 --
P. 216 Appendix --
About the authors P.218 --
References P.220 --
Photo Credits P.223 --

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