Richly illustrated with an overwhelming amount of models, drawings and sketches from the collection of the FRAC Centre by a range of renowned and international architects, this anthology of 60 years of experimental architecture pushes the limits of the field, documenting its evolution from modernism to the present day. Radical designs mix with futuristic aspirations and utopian ideals in concepts by more than 70 architects – Shigeru Ban, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Toyo Ito, Sou Fujimoto, Michael Graves, Yona Friedman and more. Includes essays by Marie-Ange Brayer, Mark Wigley, Andrea Branzi, Georges Teyssot, Gianni Pettena, Frédéric Migayrou, Christian Girard and Günther Feuerstein.
Richly illustrated with an overwhelming amount of models, drawings and sketches from the collection of the FRAC Centre by a range of renowned and international architects, this anthology of 60 years of experimental architecture pushes the limits of the field, documenting its evolution from modernism to the present day. Radical designs mix with futuristic aspirations and utopian ideals in concepts by more than 70 architects – Shigeru Ban, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Toyo Ito, Sou Fujimoto, Michael Graves, Yona Friedman and more. Includes essays by Marie-Ange Brayer, Mark Wigley, Andrea Branzi, Georges Teyssot, Gianni Pettena, Frédéric Migayrou, Christian Girard and Günther Feuerstein.