Synopses & Reviews
air presents the latest in iconoclastic architectural design, featuring projects that challenge the current thinking on space-making,the urban environment and programmatic strategies for living. Among the world-renowned creative figures included are Ben Nicholson, Panamarenko, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, and Ron Herron. Alongside these high-profile names will be previously unpublished projects by young, up-and-coming architects and designers.This fascinating work sheds light on how some of the world's most creative people respond to major questions concerning our quality
of life.
Review
"...three mini books that invite the reader to make connections between the three volumes and cultivate a fantasy approach to architecture in favour of pragmatics..." (Building Design, 5 July 2002)
"…exciting and meticulously detailed graphics…beautifully executed…irresistibly touchable…" (Graphics International, No.96, 2002)
"…compelling…intelligent and useful…as a document, Lim has created inspirational stuff…" (Monument, August/September 2002)
Synopsis
A hall of suspended goldfish. An elastic-powered flying suit. An inhabitable cloud. Realms of Impossibility: Air, Ground and Water is a celebration of unlikely things in a likely world. This three-volume series tells the parallel story of man's occupation of the skies, earth and oceans, dovetailing between environments to shape a composite graphic narrative. Part anthology, part guidebook and part fable, these books represents a new breed of architectural publication, interfacing with the worlds of the internet, film, literature and travel.
Table of Contents
architects-of-air.
nasa.
john puttick oallan wexler.
peter cook.
r buckminster fuller.
arata isozaki.
hsu tai.
david garcia.
jong-min kim.
stephen tierney.
michael webb.
langlands + bell.
studio 8.
ben addy.
giles ebersolt.
goodyear.
smizzou.
matthew wells.
clark kent.
peter parker.
ed lipton.
rene nedergaard.
peg rawes.
alina white.
christopher wren.
halfbakery.
steve pike.
lisa finlay.
langlands + bell.
neil spiller.
allan wexler.
rachel whiteread.
digital PBX.
frank o gehry.
christo + jeanne-claude.
hélène binet.