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Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde Hardcover – November 30, 2021

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Examines the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde movements on the contemporary architectural landscape through the work of “disruptors” such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Zaha Hadid. With an irregular format designed by celebrated graphic designer Abbott Miller of Pentagram.


In Architecture Unbound, noted architecture critic Joseph Giovannini proposes that our current architectural landscape ultimately emerged from transgressive and progressive art movements that had roiled Europe before and after World War I. By the 1960s, social unrest and cultural disruption opened the way for investigations into an inventive, antiauthoritarian architecture. Explorations emerged in the 1970s, and built projects surfaced in the 1980s, taking digital form in the 1990s, with large-scale projects finally landing on the far side of the millennium.

Architecture Unbound traces all of these developments and influences, presenting an authoritative and illuminating history not only of the sources of contemporary currents in architecture but also of the twentieth-century avant-garde and the twenty-first-century digital revolution in form-making, and profiling the most influential practitioners and their most notable projects, including Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall, Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House, Daniel Libeskind’s master plan for the World Trade Center, Rem Koolhaas’s CCTV Tower, and Herzog and de Meuron’s Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing.
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"Joseph Giovannini examines 20th-century trends decade by decade and analyzes the work of Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Herzog and de Meuron, and other leading architects to argue that progressive European art movements around World War I led to the styles of today’s buildings. Giovannini’s critical eye also considers the 21st-century digital revolution in architectural form-making in this expansive book." —ALTA MAGAZINE

"In Architecture Unbound, noted architecture critic Joseph Giovannini takes us to architecture's wilder shores as he traces a century of the avant-garde to transgressive and progressive art movements that roiled Europe before and after World War I, and to the social unrest and cultural disruption of the 1960s…Architecture Unbound tracks complex historical developments and conceptual influences across the century, presenting an authoritative and illuminating history of the twentieth-century avant-garde and its evolution into digital form-making in the twenty-first century." —AMAZING ARCHITECTURE

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Joseph Giovannini is a practicing architect who has written on architecture and design for three decades for such publications as the New York Times, Architectural Record, Art in America, and Art Forum, and he has served as the architecture critic for New York magazine and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rizzoli (November 30, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 876 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0847858790
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0847858798
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.68 x 2.38 x 11.05 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Ambitious and Heroic Book
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An epic fea(s)t for the mind and eyes. Mining the many themes and arcs of our time—as well as before and after—this encyclopedic tome is both comprehensive and accessible. The innovative graphic design serves as a visual device and narrative force. Give yourself time to soak in the history of architecture, influence of great thinkers, and social impact of creative voices.
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This book is for architects, teachers, students and architectural historians. Joseph Giovanni explores the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde architects (the “disruptors”) and gives us a clue as to where architecture in 21st Century is moving. It contains beautifully written text with wonderful photographs, drawings with cutting edge graphics at an unbelievably low price.

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Spectacular photography on every page! The best architecture book I've read in a decade. It's very inspiring insightful and stimulating. A must own book for your library.
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A fresh, yet monumental achievement to describe and illuminate the revolutionary architecture of our time
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This book is a must for any architect or architecture fan!! Beautifully written and composed!!
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Cathy Anders
5.0 out of 5 stars On-ramp to the Avant-Garde
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2022
If you’ve ever wondered about the dramatic, beautiful, sometimes confounding buildings that grace - or afflict - our cities since the ‘80s, this book is for you. Its author, Joseph Giovannini, has investigated avant-garde architecture for over thirty years, writing as a critic, interviewing practitioners, and participating as an architect. No one else I know would have the knowledge or skill to pull off an 800 page text on the subject.

‘Architecture Unbound’ is both blockbuster and page-turner. Its intensely visual design – by Pentagram – is disruptive yet appropriate. Compelling images of projects from around the world charge its pages, photographs abounding. Among them you’ll find the astonishments of Zaha Hadid, Coop-Himmelb(l)au, Frank Gehry, Claude Parent, and lesser-known lights, myself included. Thirty years of research pays off.

Yes, buy the book for the pictures… but stay for the text.

There’s no introduction – we’re thrown into the story from the start. Giovannini is both critic and journalist, and it shows. With clarity and urgency, he pulls the reader into the pages, uncovering avant-garde history, design, structure, and philosophy. Along the way we get perspective on personalities, cliques and factions, criticism, and unobtrusive notes on his experience. While architectural theory can be ponderous, the author barely slows in unwrapping the mysteries of post-structuralism, post-modernism and other philosophical fancies. You won't read it in an afternoon, but you’ll feel like you did.

It’s quite a trip - quite an achievement. And in the end I can’t believe what’s offered in this book for the price. Buy it now before Amazon ups the cost. Thank me later.

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cyrus
1.0 out of 5 stars lots of muddle
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2022
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This author may be a major architectural journalist, but much of the time he has little idea what he writes about. He tries to be philosophical, but he really doesn't know his philosophy, so there is the typical architectural "aren't we smart" narrative that often has no idea what it's talking about. Great images and photos, and one wonders why Rizzoli would spend so much money on a text that is poorly phrased and often inaccurate. A huge waste of paper.
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Angela Palmieri
4.0 out of 5 stars ottimo prodotto e fashion
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ottimo regalo molto gradito a chi è del settore o amante dell'architetture
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