New Forms aims to provide architects with a useful tool, starting with the very first, perhaps most crucial instant of any new project - the creative moment. It is based on the concept that while architectural projects clearly require a certain location and a client brief indicating specifications and budget, they also involve the very personal resolve of an architect to follow up on an initial creative spark. That inspirational, intellectual moment - consisting of aspects such as forms, colours, materials and transparencies - needs this resolve to carry it through the successive phases to realization.

In this book, a series of architectural projects are presented where innovative form has particular significance. Presentation is by order of size, starting with detached family homes through to large public complexes such as university buildings and concert halls...

Introduction

Shapes to an End

Forms in Architecture

Villa NM - Upstate New York, USA

Ixtapa House -Zihuatanejo, Mexico

Two Houses Ponte de Lima, Portugal

Private House - Udine, Italy

Summer House - Zapallar, Chile

Wellenhaus: House of the Waves Hesse, Germany

Springtecture B - Shiga, Japan

Chesa Futura Apartments St Moritz, Switzerland

Commercial and Residential Complex Bohinjska Bistrica, Slovenia

Macallen Residential Complex Boston, USA

Documentation and Information Centre Bergen-Belsen, Germany

Meiso no Mori Municipal Funeral IKakamigahara, Japan

Cube Tower Guadalajara, Mexico

Metzo College Doetinchem, The Netherlands

Shipping and Transport College Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology Galway, ireland

Simmons Hall, MIT - Cambridge, USA

Richard E. Lindner Athletics Cente University of Cincinnati, USA

Campus Recreation Center University of Cincinnati, USA

Casa da Musica - Porto, Portugal

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