Beautiful Moves

Designing Stadia

Benjamin Flowers

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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
15 December 2018

Concert halls, arenas, stadia

Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer, once pleaded for ‘a pretty move for the love of God’ when watching his beloved soccer. This book is likewise interested in ‘beautiful moves’, but turns instead to the architecture of the stadium as an architectural type as captivating as the play occurring on the pitch.

In the past 30 years a number of stadium projects have been completed that highlight how this building type has become a site for architectural innovation and complexity. Clients increasingly turned to A-list architects and prize-winning firms to design new stadia. As a result, in cities around the world stadia are often the most expensive and monumental of projects, and may be icons of identity and defining presences in the built landscape.

By examining a range of exemplary stadia from around the world (built, unbuilt and demolished projects), this book presents for the first time a canon for this building type. Organised chronologically, it includes famous examples from the likes of Lina Bo Bardi, Frei Otto, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Herzog & de Meuron, Foster + Partners and Studio Gang.

By: Benjamin Flowers
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 190mm,
ISBN: 9781848222243
ISBN 10: 1848222246
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 15 December 2018
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction. Chapter 1: 1960: The Postwar Stadium and the City. Chapter 2: 1970: The Rise of the High Tech Mega Project. Chapter 3: 1980: Decline and Disaster. Chapter 4: 1990: The Postmodern Stadium. Chapter 5: 2000: The Starchitect and the Stadium. Chapter 6: 2010: Stadia Worlds. Conclusion: Stadia of the Future

Benjamin Flowers is an Associate Professor in Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty (2014), Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century (2009), and most recently, Sport and Architecture (2016). He is the director of Stadia Lab.

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Beautiful Moves

Designing Stadia

Benjamin Flowers

$147

Hardback

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