Bizarre Buildings

Quarto; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 224pp., many colour illustrations. Minor wear; small tears to the top of the front and rear hinges; mild spotting to lower text block edge. Small tears on dustwrapper spine panel matching board injuries; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. This intriguing book selects some of the world's most extreme and sometimes weird buildings and structures. Some illustrate the personal expression of an individual builder or patron who has a vision well beyond the norm, while others were built by architects pushing the conventional boundaries of design. Some of the buildings are masterpieces on a larger scale. Examples include Frank Gehry's iconic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, with its glistening, undulating walls. Some are indeed 'follies' - including the surreal shark sticking out of the roof of a house in Oxford, England. Many of these strange buildings have a more obvious provenance, as deliberate marketing ventures of the owner's product such as the Big Duck building, which is actually shaped like a duck in honour of the poultry once sold there. A marvellous array of unique architectural structures.

Product Info

Publisher: Compendium, London, 2007.

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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