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The Springboard in the Pond
Door Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen
| Categorie | Algemeen Bouwwerken |
|---|---|
| Boeknummer | #383700 |
| Titel | The Springboard in the Pond |
| Auteur | Leeuwen, Thomas A.P. van |
| Boektype | Gebonden hardcover |
| Uitgeverij | Massachusetts Institute for Technology |
| Jaar van uitgave | 1998 |
| ISBN10 | 9870262220598 |
| ISBN13 | 9789870262220 |
| Taal | Engels |
| Beschrijving | Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, decorated endpapers, illustrated with numerous (full page) photographs in colour and b/w, square (circa 26x26cm). |
| Samenvatting | Although others have written eloquently on the relationship of water to built form, until now no one has investigated the swimming pool as a quintessentially modern and American space, reflecting America's infatuation with hygiene, skin, and recreation. In The Springboard in the Pond, Thomas van Leeuwen looks at a familiar hole--the domestic swimming pool--and discovers an icon indispensable to the reading of twentieth-century modernism. At one level, the book is a rereading of modern architecture that will leave that story permanently altered. At another level, it is the story of the origin and evolution of the private swimming pool as a building type and cultural artifact. And at still another level, it is a material philosophy of water. Van Leeuwen explores the human relationship to water from a variety of viewpoints: social, religious, artistic, sexual, psychological, technical, and above all architectural. Throughout the book, he weaves a series of analogies to three emblematic animals--frog, swan, and penguin--that represent the three prevailing human attitudes toward water: hydrophilia, hydrophobia, and ambivalence. The books many illustrations--drawings, plans, and photographs--come from an unusual variety of sources, creating what is surely the most provocative visual archive of the swimming pool ever assembled. This book is the second in a planned tetralogy by the author, with each volume centered on the relationship of architecture to one of the four classical elements: sky, water, fire, and earth. The first volume was The Skyward Trend of Thought: The Metaphysics of the American Skyscraper (MIT Press, 1988) |
| Pagina's | 321 |
| Conditie | Goed — Foxed on cut. |
| Prijs | € 25,00 |
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