Foster + Partners: Architecture and Construction Details brings twelve of the firm's recent projects into close technical focus, moving from a Bordeaux winery to the Tocumen International Airport in Panama through construction details, axonometrics, sketches, and photography.
About This Book
For more than five decades, Foster + Partners has defined high-tech architecture — a practice where structural engineering ambition and formal precision are inseparable. This monograph, edited by Sandra Hofmeister, uses twelve carefully selected recent works to demonstrate exactly how that ambition is realised at the detail level. Rather than a career survey, it is a technical argument: that the firm's reputation for groundbreaking projects in urban planning and engineering is grounded in a disciplined command of construction. Axonometrics and construction details sit alongside photographs and project texts, making this essential reading for architects and students who want to understand not just what Foster + Partners builds, but how.
Key Features
- 176 pages of construction details, axonometrics, sketches, and project photography across twelve works
- Edited by Sandra Hofmeister
- Notable projects include a winery near Bordeaux and Tocumen International Airport, Panama
- Published by Detail
What You'll Discover
- How Foster + Partners resolves large-scale infrastructure — such as an international airport — through precise construction detailing
- The range of the firm's practice, from intimate building typologies to major civic and transport projects
- The relationship between axonometric drawing and built outcome across a range of structural conditions
- How technical documentation — details, sketches, and section drawings — functions as a record of structural engineering expertise
About the Author
Sandra Hofmeister is the editor of this monograph. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 320 x 230 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783955536329
- Publisher: Detail
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and architectural students seeking detailed technical documentation of contemporary high-tech practice, and design professionals studying the relationship between construction detailing and large-scale project delivery.