The Architecture of Harry Weese. by WEESE. Bruegmann, Robert. : William Stout Architectural Books : Books on architecture, art, urban planning, graphic and industrial design, furniture and interior design, and landscape architecture.

This study tells the story of one of America's most gifted architects of the postwar years. During a career that spanned half a century from the 1930s to the 1980s, Weese produced a large number of significant designs ranging from small but highly inventive houses to large urban scale commissions like the Washington, D.C., Metro system. Although influenced to some degree by the rational, and often austere, work of European modernists like Mies van der Rohe, in most of his own oeuvre Weese instead followed the example of Nordic architects like Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto in favoring natural materials, human scale, and comfort; his work was characterized by a deep respect for older buildings and existing urban patterns and a fondness for unexpected, often idiosyncratic design decisions.

Category: Architecture, Monographs
Binding: Cl.
Pages: 240 pp
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Year: 2010.
Publication Place: New York,
ISBN: 9780393731934
Book Id: 83692

Price: $59.95

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