Herzog & de Meuron: Architecture and Construction Details returns in a fifth expanded edition documenting twenty-four built projects — from the Royal College of Art in London to the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg — through the drawings and technical documentation that DETAIL does better than anyone.
About This Book
The question this book keeps asking is a practical one: how does Herzog & de Meuron actually get it built? Drawing on DETAIL's own archive of reports, interviews, technical articles and project documentation accumulated since 2000, the monograph works through twenty-four completed projects — the Ricola-Kräuterzentrum in Laufen, the Prada shop in Tokyo, and the Elbphilharmonie among them — attending equally to the architects' design intentions, their handling of both traditional and unfamiliar materials, and the technical problems those choices create. Three recent projects join this fifth edition, including the Hortus building that appears on the cover. Texts, photographs and drawings document process as well as outcome, which is the point: this is a book about resolution, not image.
Key Features
- Twenty-four built projects presented with texts, photographs, drawings and construction details
- Fifth, revised and expanded edition, adding three recent projects including Hortus
- Bilingual English and German text throughout
- Notable projects include the Royal College of Art London, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Ricola-Kräuterzentrum Laufen and the Prada shop in Tokyo
- Drawn from more than two decades of DETAIL's own project documentation and interviews
What You'll Discover
- How the practice's material experiments — the ones that make the buildings recognisable — are actually detailed and resolved on site
- The technical challenges specific to each project, and the constructional decisions taken in response
- Process documentation alongside finished work, showing how a design intention survives contact with construction
- What three decades of DETAIL's reporting reveals about how a global practice organises its detail planning
About the Author
Published by Edition DETAIL, Munich — the imprint of the architectural journal known for its focus on construction and building technology. Herzog & de Meuron was founded in Basel in 1978 by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. This book was edited by Dr. Sandra Hofmeister.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English and German
- ISBN: 9783955536800
- Publisher: DETAIL
- Dimensions: 23.7 × 32.5cm
- Pages: 272
Perfect For: Architects and students working on facade and material detailing, practices developing their own technical libraries, and anyone who wants Herzog & de Meuron explained through construction rather than reputation.