Pacific edge : contemporary architecture on the Pacific Rim / Peter Zellner; with essays by Aaron Betsky, Davina Jackson and Akira Suzuki.

London : Thames & Hudson, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 224p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27cm. Notes; Includes index. Bibliography. Contents; Introduction - surface crossing and edge environments; modernist legacies - an international vernacular; college cities in western America, Aaron Betsky; edge conditions - regional inflection and the architecture of local identity - software rituals in the contemporary Asian city, Akira Suzuki; dense cities/sprawl-cities - architecture in the expanding new world city - perimeter politics: Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, Davina Jackson; tectonics - innovative in old contexts; media tectonics - generating an ambient architecture tectonics; film histories and project lists. Summary; The aim of this first all-encompassing survey of the Pacific region's contemporary architecture is to show how 33 of the most cutting-edge and innovative architecture and design studies have created buildings by drawing on the stylistic conflicts and dynamism that reverberate across the Pacific. Presented thematically, each studio is profiled in depth, with texts, photographs, line drawings, sketches and extended captions. In counterpoint to the book's thematic structure, three essays by internationally recognized architecture and design writers Aaron Betsky, Davina Jackson and Akira Suzuki consider the regional characteristics of western America, Oceania and Asia. Subjects; Architecture, Modern � 20th century � Pacific Area. Architecture. Modern Architecture. 20th Century. Architecture � Pacific Area � History � 20th century. Architecture � Pacific Area � 20th century. Pacific Ocean. ARCHITECTURE / History / General. ARCHITECTURE / Criticism. HOUSE & HOME / Decorating.