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BUY ME A MERCEDES BENZ: The Book of the Museum
Hardback
Main Details
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BUY ME A MERCEDES BENZ: The Book of the Museum
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Ben van Berkel
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By (author) Caroline Bos
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:576 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 212,Width 168 |
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| Category/Genre | Public buildings - civic, commercial, industrial, etc
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9788496540378
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| Classifications | Dewey:727.66292222 |
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English ed.
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| Illustrations |
Illustrations, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
ActarD Inc
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| Imprint |
ActarD Inc
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| Publication Date |
23 July 2008 |
| Publication Country |
Spain
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Description
More than the document of a remarkable project: "Buy Me A Mercedes-Benz" shows how various forms of expert knowledge have been combined and interwoven to finally generate an unconventional, breakthrough museum design. Providing insight into the various ideas, experiences and ambitions behind the project, this book allows visitors to take the museum home. Through photographs, diagrams, text, and drawings, this book explains the unique Mercedes museum design model, developed by UN Studio: the digitally programmed, three-dimensional, cross-connected trefoil. Implementing this model has resulted in a building that radically breaks with many of today's architectural conventions, a building that is highly complex, but still maintains a strongly directional structure, which provides many surprising perceptual experiences.
Author Biography
In December 1998 Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos founded UN Studio in Amsterdam. Since 1988 Van Berkel & Bos have realized several internationally acclaimed projects - among them the Karbouw and ACOM office buildings, the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam, the re-development of the harbor in Genoa. www.unstudio.com
ReviewsShortlisted as most A notable monographA (The Architects Newspaper)
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