Cool Construction examines four architects in whose work understatement and the tactility of craftsmanship are combined and refined to an unprecedented degree - one of the most significant trends in architecture today.
Although the architects - David Chipperfield (London), Waro Kishi (Kyoto), Eduardo Souto de Moura (Lisbon), and Tod Williams and Billie Tsien (New York) - are based in very different cultures, their architecture exhibits a singular vision of purity and serenity. Each finds maximum expression through the ingenious use of materials and a manipulation of form.
Against the excesses of postmodernism and embracing the forms, but not necessarily the tenets of modernism, cool construction is an architecture that is finely honed and carefully wrought, sublime and resonant.publiarq.com