Norman Foster

Reflections

Jonathan Glancey

Creation and design of the first three cars considered ecological, which brought a progress in automobile engineering

Buckminster Fuller

Dymaxion Car

Peter Buchanan

Foster + Partners Portfolio: 1967-2017' is a complete and extraordinary account of the first fifty years of Foster + Partners - a globally renowned studio for sustainable architecture, urbanism and design. Over the past half-century, the practice - founded as Foster Associates in 1967 - has grown into a multi-disciplinary studio, motivated by sustainable design and leading through creativity and innovation. This book provides a beautiful visual record that celebrates the practice's remarkable breadth of works - both built and unbuilt. For the first time ever, Portfolio features photography of every project completed in the practice's first five decades, as well as beautiful drawings of its most important unrealised designs. Through over 480 carefully edited images - many previously unpublished - the book highlights the enormous contribution the practice has made to a range of design disciplines.

1967-2017

Foster + Partners Portfolio

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Oscar Niemeyer

This book, which is part of the Ivorypress Architecture series, presents a conversation between Oscar Niemeyer and Norman Foster, for which Hans Ulrich Obrist was also present. A conversation that reveals the first and only encounter that took place between these two great architects, shortly before Niemeyer's death. The interview reveals many shared interests between the two architects, some of which were to be expected and others that are very surprising indeed. They shared a passion for the practice of drawing and a conviction of its centrality for architectural work. "Architecture should not only be about designing a building that works well: it can also be beautiful, it can be different, it can be surprising, can't it? In fact, surprise is the main element of a work of art."

In Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist

Oscar Niemeyer, Norman Foster

Ken Powell

The headquarters for Willis Faber & Dumas challenged accepted thinking about the office building and established Foster + Partners' reputation for democratic, flexibly planned workplaces. Primarily conceived with a spirit of equality, the architectural innovations of Willis Faber & Dumas included the use of escalators in a three-storey structure, as well as the social dimension offered by its swimming pool, roof-top restaurant and garden. Designed for long-term flexibility, the building pioneered the use of raised office floors, which anticipated the revolution in information technology. Externally, the building was equally distinguished for its state-of-the-art glass facʹade, and its free-form plan, which responded to the medieval street pattern. This monograph follows the building's evolution from concept through execution, including numerous illustrations and comprehensive essays, and will appeal to those interested in architecture and design.

Foster + Partners

Willis Faber & Dumas Headquarters

Chris Abel

'Instead of tuning the consumer to the machine we can now tune the machine to the consumer' This edited collection of essays, now in its second edition, brings together the author's key writings on the cultural, technological and theoretical developments reshaping Modern architecture into a responsive and diverse movement for the twenty-first century. Chris Abel approaches his subject from a wide range of knowledge, including cybernetics, philosophy, new human science and development planning, as well as his experience as a teacher and critic on four continents. The result is a unique global perspective on the changing nature of Modern architecture at the turn of the millennium. Including two new chapters, this revised and expanded second edition offers radical insights into such topics as: the impact of information technology on customized architecture production; the relations between tradition and innovation; prospects for a global eco-culture, and the local and global forces shaping the architecture and cities of Asia. Chris Abel is an architectural writer and educator, based in Malta. He has taught at major universities in the UK, North and South America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East and is a contributor to numerous international journals and other publications. He currently holds visiting appointments at the University of Malta and the University of the Phillippines.

Architecture and Identity

CD-ROM contains: Interactive catalog of work.

On Foster ... Foster on

Martin Pawley

Surveys Foster's career, with insightful essays on industrial architecture, deep-plan buildings, and urbanism.

A Global Architecture

Philip Jodidio

Illustrated throughout, this is the definitive book for all architecture enthusiasts, with many detailed explanations. It contains an up-to-date list of works from 1964 to the year 2000.

SIR NORMAN FOSTER. Edition en anglais, allemand et français

Luis Fernández-Galiano

This exhibition, which was held at Ivorypress Art+Books in September 2009, featured 200 drawings by Norman Foster. This catalogue includes the exhibited drawings as well as texts of a series of paneled discussions which were mediated by LuÃÂs FernÃÂ¡ndez Galiano, with contributions from Norman Foster, Richard Long, Deyan Sudjic, Not Vital, Ricky Burdett, Jordi Gual, Saskia Sassen, Stefan Behling and Herbert Girardet. This catalogue is the first in a series devoted to architecture relating to art, sustainability and economy.

Drawings 1958-2008

Joseph Giovannini

Discusses the architecture of the Hearst Tower in New York City, including the original vision for the building and its construction and layout.

Hearst Tower

WERNER

Norman Foster Sketch Book (Broschur)

Charles Jencks

David Jenkins

Mel Gooding

Ben Johnson

Painter and photographer Ben Johnson captures the spirit of Norman Foster's architectural masterpieces in this book. For more than thirty years Ben Johnson has been documenting the work of one of today's most acclaimed architects in photographs that have served as source material for his own neo-realist paintings. Included in this intimate volume are nearly all of Foster's most celebrated projects, such as the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the restoration of the Reichstag, Hong Kong and Beijing airports, and the British Museum's Great Court. Johnson's images allow readers to explore the ineffable qualities of Foster's architecture--his use of light and scale, innovative materials and attention to natural and man-made surroundings. Fans of Foster will find much to discover in this unique amalgam of architecture and art. AUTHOR: Charles Jencks is the author of the best-selling The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (Academy Editions) and has written numerous other books on contemporary art and architecture. Mel Gooding is an art writer, critic and curator. David Jenkins is an architect, editor and writer. He is the series editor of Norman Foster Works and Foster 40 (all published by Prestel). 250 illustrations *

Foster in View

Deyan Sudjic

Spencer De Grey

A landmark in the history of the British Museum and one of Norman Foster's most significant projects to date, the Great Court has reclaimed and reinvigorated one of London's most important public spaces, transforming the Museum. Published to coincide with a major retrospective of Foster's work held at the British Museum, this volume brings together essays, design drawings and photographs to provide an account of the development and completion of Foster's project. An introductory essay by Deyan Sudjic presents the Great Court as the culmination of centuries of change within the Museum - a reconciliation of past and future which has both restored and transfigured the heart of this public institution. Spencer de Grey, a partner at Foster and Partners, documents the design and construction of the individual elements within the Great Court and the vast glazed canopy which surmounts them. The volume is introduced by Norman Foster and illustrated with photographs of the Great Court during its construction and in its spectacular finished state.

Norman Foster and the British Museum

Studie over - met afbeeldingen van - het werk van drie vooraanstaande Britse architecten, resp. geb. 1935, 1933 en 1926

New Directions in British Architecture

Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, James Stirling

The works of Norman Foster from 1993 - 2004 are the focus of this book, the fifth instalment of a multi-volume retrospective. The text about each project is accompanied by colour photographs and detailed plans.

Works

Rem Koolhaas

Foster Mendini Koolhaas

Birkhauser

Alessandro Mendini

'The nature of colour should change - no longer just a thin layer of change, but something that genuinely alters perception' - this stipulation of Rem Koolhaas is echoed by the world famous architects and designers Alessandro Mendini and Norman Foster. In this volume, they present between them a total of 90 colours - each covering half a page - accompanied by comments on the background, the significance and the applications of the colours. Studies of colours from each office form the basis of this book, and were previously only available in extravagant individual editions. With this comprehensive and consistent presentation of the varying approaches to colour, we have a compendium which shows the wide use of colour in today's technologically advanced architecture with its modern, post-modern and deconstructive orientation. The range of examples of the colours in practice includes load-bearing structures, facades, interior design, furnishing and the entire spectrum of product design.

Norman Foster

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