Evolo Skyscrapers 3: Visionary Architecture and Urban Design

Hardback

Main Details

Title Evolo Skyscrapers 3: Visionary Architecture and Urban Design
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Carlo Aiello
SeriesEvolo Skyscrapers
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:656
Dimensions(mm): Height 312,Width 235
Category/GenreArchitecture
Architectural structure and design
Building construction and materials
ISBN/Barcode 9781938740220
Audience
General
Edition English ed.

Publishing Details

Publisher Actar Publishers
Imprint Actar Publishers
Publication Date 17 January 2017
Publication Country United States

Description

The future of architecture and urban design unveiled by 150 innovative projects submitted to the world-renowned eVolo Skyscraper Competition. The third book in the Skyscraper Competition series showcases visionary designs that utilize the latest technological advances, offer sustainable architectural solutions, explore new territories, propose social change, and examine radical urban strategies. Since 2006 the annual Skyscraper Competition receives thousands of entries from more than 80 different countries. The projects presented in this edition represent the top entries selected by an expert international jury.

Author Biography

Carlo Aiello graduated from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University in New York City. After collaborating with Asymptote Architecture and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill he established eVolo Press in New York City for which he is Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director. In 2013 Carlo Aiello founded Los Angeles-based studio Carlo Aiello Design, an atelier that focuses on innovative contemporary industrial design. In the same year, Mr. Aiello received the highest industrial design honor, the GOOD DESIGN Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. In the same year he received the prestigious International Contemporary Furniture Fair Studio Award (ICFF). His designs are part of the permanent collection of The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco. Carlo Aiello has been Juror at the World Architecture Festival, AIA Miami, AIA Los Angeles, and Krob Competition.