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OverviewEduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer, once pleaded for `a pretty move for the love of God' when watching his beloved soccer. This book is likewise interested in `beautiful moves', but turns instead to the architecture of the stadium as an architectural type as captivating as the play occurring on the pitch. In the past 30 years a number of stadium projects have been completed that highlight how this building type has become a site for architectural innovation and complexity. Clients that once would once have turned to large firms specializing in stadia instead began to hire A-list and Pritzker-Prize-winning architects to design new stadia. As a result, in cities around the world stadia are often the most expensive and monumental of projects, and may be icons of identity and defining presences in the built landscape. By examining a range of exemplary stadia from around the world (built, unbuilt and demolished projects), this book presents for the first time a canon for this building type. Organized chronologically, it includes famous examples from the likes of Lina Bo Bardi, Frei Otto, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Herzog & de Meuron, Foster + Partners and Studio Gang. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Benjamin FlowersPublisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd ISBN: 9781848222243ISBN 10: 1848222246 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 14 December 2018 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBenjamin Flowers is an Associate Professor in Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty (2014), Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century (2009), and most recently, Sport and Architecture (2016). He is the director of Stadia Lab. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |