Gyroscopic Horizons
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (762 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 187827113X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Beautifully designed & seamlessly assembled first monograph" according to lizmartinusa. Gyroscopic Horizons shows an indepth look into the process, motivation and presentational work from one of the most important young american architects currently practicing. For a first monograph, Denari's work is seamless offering a unique journey through the architect's portfolio and logic. Denari's book approaches a very important issue for understanding culture and technology. In 1987, renowned architectural critic and historian . Awesome Book This book is pretty awesome. Written by Neil Denari, it offers insight on what he bases his practice off of. Even though it was published earlier in his career, the graphics are still pretty cool. For any architect/ designer based in LA, I would say this book is a staple to ones bookshelf.
Magazine"Taking its title from aviation equipment, this book will take you to place in architecture you didn't know existed. Denari's richly shaped and painstakingly articulated work is shown project-by-project through mostly computer renderings and some models." -- SAH/SCC Newsletter, Nov/Dec 1999. "It wets the appetite for more built work, which will surely pose and exhilarating challenge to our notions of space." -- Mark Branch, I.D
In this first monograph on his work, architect Neil Denari sets his sights on the gyroscopic horizon, a term based on the altitude device found in most aircraft. Three of the most important projects discussed are the addition and renovation of the Arlington Museum of Art, the construction of an experimental space at Gallery MA in Tokyo (which won awards from I.D. Magazine and the Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles), and the first Microsoft retail store. Just as a plane's gyroscope creates an artificial horizon line for the pilot, Denari often eliminates the physical earth as datum or locus of experience, turning to cultural, economic, and graphic forces as points of departure for his work. Denari, the third director of Los Angeles's innovative Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), has made a reputation worldwide for his projects, installations, and writings on the question of technology and contemporary culture; it has been said of Denari's firm that it moves toward the question of place "with the same dynamic flow as a Boeing crossing the International Dateline headed for the arrival lounge at Narita Airport." This long-awaited book combines photography, cultural criticism, and meditations on Los Angeles and Japan, along with Denaris trademark computer renderings and descriptions of over 20 architectural projects from the
Neil M. Denari is the director of SCI-Arc