EAN: 9783038604075

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

Gumshoe is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. It returns the focus of architectural discourse back onto buildings in a style and form that is fresh and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. It emulates the detective novel-a form of writing beloved by many but also one that has enjoyed a parallel academic life in disciplines and by writers in fields as diverse as psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud) film (Sigfried Kracauer) and art history (Carlo Ginzburg)-but significantly not yet by architecture. Each volume will investigate a singular building as if it were a mystery waiting to be solved. Written by distinguished French architectural critic and historian Françoise Fromonot the first case- The House of Doctor Koolhaas -is about the Villa dall'Ava a private residence in Saint-Cloud a suburb of Paris. Fromonot brilliantly unpicks explains and interprets this very first building completed by Rem Koolhaas who is universally regarded as the world's most celebrated architect and his Rotterdam-based firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The house is resolutely part of a modern architectural canon but until now has not been the focus of a dedicated book or analysis.

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