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Visionary Clients for New Architecture

by Peter Noever

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Clients of architects are featured in this volume, which sheds light on the tricky balance of power between the architect and the client. It focuses on three visionaries who commissioned buildings which became 20th-century architectural icons.
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In the 1990s, in the middle of his 25-year tenure as director of MAK in Vienna, Peter Noever convened a number of conferences that were turned into books published by Prestel. I own a few of those, including Architecture in Transition (1991) and The End of Architecture?, which are populated by some familiar names: Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Thom Mayne, and Eric Owen Moss, among others. Visionary Clients overlaps with those and other architects but from the point of view of the client rather than the architect. The conference and book focus on three particular clients: Frederick Samitaur Smith (former industrial area in Culver City transformed by Eric Owen Moss), Thomas Krens (Frank Gehry's client for the Guggenheim Bilbao), and Rolf Fehlbaum (the head of Vitra, which built an architectural playground near Basel). I like reading about building's from a client's point of view (rare in architectural literature), so I found this the most illuminating of the Noever/Prestel titles -- now at least, though back in school I leaned to the theorizing and Deconstruction of the earlier titles. ( )
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