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Item Details
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ROADCUT
THE ARCHITECTURE OF ANTOINE PREDOCK |
| By: |
Christopher Curtis Mead |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£64.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0826350097 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780826350091 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 January, 2011 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
In Roadcut, architectural historian Christopher Curtis Mead traces Antoine Predocks development over forty years from early work in Albuquerquethe housing complex La Luz and the Rio Grande Nature Centerto twenty-first-century projects like Winnipegs Canadian Museum for Human Rights. |
| Synopsis: |
""The roadcut is a diagram of the investigative process for the making of architecture.""--Antoine PredockThe work of New Mexico architect Antoine Predock is known around the world. In 2006, the American Institute of Architects awarded Predock its Gold Medal, the highest honor it can bestow on an individual, aligning him with such celebrated modern architects as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Louis Kahn.In "Roadcut," architectural historian Christopher Curtis Mead traces Predock's development over forty years from early work in Albuquerque--the housing complex La Luz and the Rio Grande Nature Center--to twenty-first-century projects like Winnipeg's Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Mead also gives special attention to the Nelson Fine Arts Center in Tempe, Arizona, the American Heritage Center and University Art Museum at the University of Wyoming, the Turtle Creek House in Dallas, the Austin City Hall and Public Plaza in Texas, and George Pearl Hall at the University of New Mexico. |
| Illustrations: |
102 black and white and colour illustrations, 140 black and white and |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of New Mexico Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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