Beautiful Moves - Designing Stadia

In the past 30 years, a number of stadium projects have been completed that have challenged perceived notions about this building type as a site for architectural innovation and complexity. Clients that once would once have turned to large firms have instead hired A-list and Pritzker-Prize-winning architects to design their new stadia. As a result, in cities around the world, stadia are often the most expensive and monumental projects, even becoming icons of identity. By examining a range of exemplary stadia from around the world (built and demolished projects), this book presents for the first time a canon for this building category.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: The 1960s: The Postwar Stadium and the City. Chapter 3: 1970-1990: "Machines for Sport", Disasters and Dramatic Change. Chapter 4: 2000 to Present: The Rise of the Architect Stadium. Chapter 5: Stadia of the Future

About the author

Benjamin Flowers is an Associate Professor in Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published 'Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty' (Ashgate Press, 2014, 'Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), and most recently, Sport and Architecture (Routledge, 2016). He is the director of Stadia Lab.

Summary

This book examines a range of exemplary stadia, including examples from Lina Bo Bardi, Frei Otto, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Herzog and de Meuron, Foster + Partners and Studio Gang.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Flowers, Dr Benjamin Flowers, Flowers Benjamin
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781848222243
• ISBN: 978-1-84822-224-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; SPORTS & RECREATION / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Sports management & facilities, Sports management and facilities, Concert halls, arenas, stadia, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings