Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz: The Book of the Museum
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (798 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 8496540375 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. Providing insight into the various ideas, experiences and ambitions behind the project, this book allows visitors to take the museum home. 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.. 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
Van Berkel is dean of the postgraduate program of architecture at the Stadel Schule in Frankfurt, Germany. . Based in Amsterdam, the firm has designed and built projects around the world. Bos is a visiting lecturer at Princeton University. Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos established Van Berkel & Bos in 1988, which later became UN Studio in 1998
Unstudio awarded 'Architect of the Year 2007'
Amazing book! All hail UNstudio This book has every single piece of info you want to know about the mercedes benz museum. Used this book so much of ra case study that it end up falling apart from so much usage. Pretty thick book, but worth it. Has of photos, drawings, plans, models, etc.. A review of "Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz: The Book of the Museum" A valuable source of information about the Mercedes-Benz Museum and a must read for enthusiasts of this historic vehicle. The only disappointment I had was that this book does not have more photographs of the exhibits.