Synthesis: Texte und Collagen / Texts and Collages

✍ Scribed by Werner Blaser

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: German
• Leaves: 88
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Werner Blaser is among the most respected architectural critics of recent decades, who has interacted with virtually all of the major architects, including Mies, Foster, Piano, and Calatrava. In Synthesis, he tells the story of his encounters with architects and architecture. In addition, he is also the creator of collages that make apparent aesthetic connections between the East and West, and between traditional and contemporary architecture.

• An inspirational story book by one of the best known architectural critics and publishers
• Encounters with Mies van der Rohe, Aalto, Foster, Ando, Piano, Jahn, Calatrava
• Collages are used to illustrate surprising architectural relationships
  

✦ Table of Contents

Content / Inhalt
Foreword / Vorwort
Setting Out / Auftakt – zur Sache
Seeing – Thinking – Understanding / Sehen – Denken – Verstehen
Finland’s Primal Natural Environment / Ur-Natur Finnland
Visions Take on Form / Visionen nehmen Gestalt an
Chicago, the El Dorado of Modern Architecture / Chicago, das Eldorado für Architektur
Conversations with Mies / Gespräche mit Mies
Succeeding Mies / Nachfolge Mies
Kyoto with Zen – an Architecture of Stillness / Kyoto mit Zen – eine Baukunst der Stille
Basel as a City of Architecture / Basel als Architektur-Stadt
Experiencing Historical Buildings / Erleben von Baudenkmälern
Encounters with Master Architects / Begegnungen mit Meisterarchitekten
Artistic Inspiration / Im Kreis der Kunst leben
Success in Competitions / Wettbewerbserfolge
Habit – Habitat / Habit – Habitat
Art in the Details of Furniture / Kunst im Möbeldetail
Photo Collage / Fazit der Fotocollage
Home is Homeland / Heim ist Heimat
Making a Heritage one’s Own / Aus dem Erbe wird Eigenes
Synthesis / Synthesis
Epilog / Nachwort
Index / Namensregister
Books by Werner Blaser / Bücher von Werner Blaser