BOLLES+WILSON

A Handful of Productive Paradigms

This extensive work of 296 pages and ca. 900 images chronicles not only the wide range of projects by the Münster based architects over the last years but also includes an accompanying theoretical and cultural discourse which underpins their international reputation.

For BOLLES+WILSON architecture is a symbiosis of the conceptual and the pragmatic, of the everyday and the exceptional, of the scales of Masterplans and of details, of urban context and choreographed interiors, of emotion and ‘ratio’. Phenomenological perception and narrative structures characterise the arresting form language of their buildings, buildings which as this expansive monograph demonstrates remain always mindful of use and comfort. The result is a rich, dense and elegant book with numerous sketches, plans and profound photographs by Christian Richters.

Works and projects featured include: the Suzuki House, Tokyo; the Masterplan Falkenried, Hamburg; the Spuimarkt Block, The Hague; DGM Quartier, Magdeburg; the Kaldewei Kompetenz Center, Ahlen; the Münster City Library; and the New Luxor Theatre, Rotterdam.

Established in London in 1980 BOLLES+WILSON have been based in Germany since 1989 with projects in Australia, Albania, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Julia Bolles-Wilson, Peter Wilson
BOLLES+WILSON
A Handful of Productive Paradigms
2009, English
296 pp, 28 x 25 cm, hardcover
illustrations: colour & bw
ISBN: 9783000281419
€59,00

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