The Mythic Modern Architectural Expeditions into the Spirit of Place |
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| Author:
| Price, Travis |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9826226-8-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2012 |
| Publisher: | ORO Editions
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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Depicts a number of design/build projects carried out by Travis Price in landscapes as diverse as Machu Picchu and Italy, Nepal and Ireland, and the Amazon, and Finland.
The Mythic Modern: Architectural Expeditions into the Spirit of Place depicts an amazing fifteen years of adventurous design/build projects in extraordinary landscapes from Machu Picchu, Nepal, and the Amazon to Italy, Ireland, and Finland. The projects are built in a modern idiom yet with designs inspired by...
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Depicts a number of design/build projects carried out by Travis Price in landscapes as diverse as Machu Picchu and Italy, Nepal and Ireland, and the Amazon, and Finland.
The Mythic Modern: Architectural Expeditions into the Spirit of Place depicts an amazing fifteen years of adventurous design/build projects in extraordinary landscapes from Machu Picchu, Nepal, and the Amazon to Italy, Ireland, and Finland. The projects are built in a modern idiom yet with designs inspired by local cultures and ecologies, a series of legacy installations a la Christo, but with a conscience. These award-winning and highly published projects have been called out as a convergence of Andy Goldsworthy, Frank Gehry, and Joseph Campbell with a dash of Indiana Jones thrown in. A decade and a half ago, Travis Price, FAIA, created the Spirit of Place/Spirit of Design (SPSD) design/build, educational exploration program for architecture students at the Catholic University of America to provide students the opportunity to research, design, and construct a project in nine days in a remote landscape once a year, and the program continues to this day. The design philosophy of SPSD enunciates a crucial turning point in modernism, which, while replete with Green underpinnings, takes a critical look at the preservation of authenticity and character in a contemporary design language.
The book tells tales of the adventures of building installations, which in turn tell their own tales about revived cultural legacies. A plethora of amazing National Geographic quality photographic images are displayed: action stories by photographers such as Ken Wyner, Chris Rainier, and Eamon O'Boyle. The visual record includes a superb library of project images showing the design process, key indigenous peoples, construction action, human-interest stories, finished projects, and exotic landscapes.