Background
Tzonis, Alexander was born on November 8, 1937 in Athens, Greece. Son of Constantinos and Chariclea (Xanthopoulos) Tzonis. arrived in The Netherlands, 1982.
(Three thousand years ago the Greeks built monuments that ...)
Three thousand years ago the Greeks built monuments that have come to epitomize Western culture, such as the Parthenon and the Temple of Athena. In this book, a renowned architectural historian reexamines buildings and sites of Greek classical antiquity, not as expressions of pedantic, archaic rules, but as truly innovative paradigms - and shows how they gave rise to modern architecture. Classical Greek Architecture features fascinating archival photographs, site maps, and architectural plans. It discusses not only the technology but also the myths, rituals, social structures, and political conflicts that left their mark in the ultimate design of a given building. With chapters covering a range of topics from the status of Greek architecture today and the uses of the various types of buildings to the influences of African and Asian cultures on the Greeks, this is a thorough, scholarly, yet accessible work of reference.
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(This work traces the evolution of North American architec...)
This work traces the evolution of North American architectual work from 1960 to 1995. The book explores its developments and innovations through the themes of ideology, place, social change, technology, the city and the environment. It features 78 projects and both examines and offers critical insights into the debates surrounding architecture today. The work of some of today's architects can be seen here in projects of varying size and scope, ranging from Edward Larrabee Barnes's Haystack Mountain School of Arts and Crafts, perched on platforms above the Maine Coast, to the large technological complexes of Helmut Jahn. Current experiments by Peter Eisenman and Frank Gehry are explored here, as are MTW's Pacific Coast Sea Ranch, Pei, Cobb and Freed's National Gallery of Art, and the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. Works by architects of a younger generation are also featured. The projects are illustrated with photographs, drawings, site diagrams, and construction details, and discussed in the short critical essays that accompany them.
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(The exploration of how movement and stationary form inter...)
The exploration of how movement and stationary form interact is as old as the act of designing itself. The built structure must strive for stability and equilibrium - and yet doors, corridors and stairways, and elevators, train stations and airports all serve, in their many different ways,to facilitate the locomotion of man and things. But apart from this literal accommodation of movement, the built form can represent movement metaphorically, showing the phenomena of flight or growth. And buildings themselves, the result of construction and manufacturing processes, are products of movement, and this movement is perpetuated as the buildings evolve and grow. Through the work of Santiago Calatrava, this monograph approaches movement and the built form, a central theme in contemporary design. Calatrava has been captivated by the idea of movement, evident in his projects for bridges, buildings, sculptures and furniture, his doctoral dissertation at the ETH in Zurich, and even in his childhood sketches.
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(This work, winner of the 1992 American Institute of Archi...)
This work, winner of the 1992 American Institute of Architects Award, surveys two and a half decades of architectural projects in Europe. It begins with the completion of the first commissions embodying the ideas that sprang out of the exuberant events of 1968, and ends with the official unification of Europe. It contributes to contemporary debates on architecture and should be useful as a source reference.
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Tzonis, Alexander was born on November 8, 1937 in Athens, Greece. Son of Constantinos and Chariclea (Xanthopoulos) Tzonis. arrived in The Netherlands, 1982.
Diploma in architectural engineering, University of Technology, Athens, 1961. Master of Architecture, Yale University, 1963.
Research assistant department architecture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1965-1967; assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967-1975; associate professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975-1981; professor, U. Technology, Delft, Netherlands, since 1982.
( This fascinating introduction to classical art and arch...)
(Three thousand years ago the Greeks built monuments that ...)
(This work, winner of the 1992 American Institute of Archi...)
(The exploration of how movement and stationary form inter...)
(This work traces the evolution of North American architec...)
(This work traces the evolution of North American architec...)
Married Liane Lefaivre.
