Vessels and fields / Wellington Reiter ; foreword by Patricia Phillips.
By: Reiter, Wellington
Publisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c1999Description: 188 pages : illustrations; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1568981872Other title: Vessels & fields [Cover title]Subject(s): Reiter, Wellington, 1957- | Architecture and society | Architecture -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 720/.92 LOC classification: NA737.R446 | A4 1999Online resources: Publisher description | Contributor biographical information Summary: Vessels & Fields is a collection of Wellington Reiter's experimental projects, presented through a series of powerful drawings that owe as much to Lebbeus Woods for their frenetic and intense energy as they do to Piranesi for their ability to use simple pen-and-ink line work to create unusually complex spaces."--BOOK JACKET. "Just a few of the more than 20 projects included in this collection are the excavation of a defunct missile silo to allow for public viewing; two giant cones serving as timepieces, one measuring the growth of a tree and the other the erosion of a boulder; and a bridge between two islands on either side of the International Date Line that eventually becomes a meeting point between two distinct political ideologies| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Vessels & Fields is a collection of Wellington Reiter's experimental projects, presented through a series of powerful drawings that owe as much to Lebbeus Woods for their frenetic and intense energy as they do to Piranesi for their ability to use simple pen-and-ink line work to create unusually complex spaces."--BOOK JACKET. "Just a few of the more than 20 projects included in this collection are the excavation of a defunct missile silo to allow for public viewing; two giant cones serving as timepieces, one measuring the growth of a tree and the other the erosion of a boulder; and a bridge between two islands on either side of the International Date Line that eventually becomes a meeting point between two distinct political ideologies
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