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Contested symmetries : the architecture of Preston Scott Cohen / [editor, Mark Lamster].

By: Cohen, Preston Scott.
Contributor(s): Lamster, Mark, 1969- [(ed.)].
Publisher: London : Laurence King, 2001Description: 173 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, 1 port. ; 28 cm.ISBN: 1856692507.Subject(s): Cohen, Preston Scott | Architecture -- Computer-aided design | Architecture -- Italy -- Computer-aided design | Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States -- Designs and plans | Geometry in architecture | Symmetry (Art)DDC classification: 720.92
Contents:
Foreword, Rafel Moneo. - Introduction : predicaments and surrogates. - 1. Contested symmetries : Palazzo Gambara. - 2. Regular anomalies : Villas Tauro. - 3. Elliptical congruencies : the tubular embrasure. - 4. Inversive projections : Taylorian perspective apparatus. - 5. Projects. House on Longboat key. House on Siesta key. Wydra house addition. Cornered house. Muss corridor. Stereotomic permutations. Stilicho duplex. Patterns for head start. Addition to the Prado. Terminal lines. Montague house. Torus house. Temporary moma. Wu house. - Selected bibliography, exhibitions, project and illustration credits, acknowledgments.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword, Rafel Moneo. - Introduction : predicaments and surrogates. - 1. Contested symmetries : Palazzo Gambara. - 2. Regular anomalies : Villas Tauro. - 3. Elliptical congruencies : the tubular embrasure. - 4. Inversive projections : Taylorian perspective apparatus. - 5. Projects. House on Longboat key. House on Siesta key. Wydra house addition. Cornered house. Muss corridor. Stereotomic permutations. Stilicho duplex. Patterns for head start. Addition to the Prado. Terminal lines. Montague house. Torus house. Temporary moma. Wu house. - Selected bibliography, exhibitions, project and illustration credits, acknowledgments.