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  NAI: Extras: Web File Herzog & De Meuron
The Swiss architectural practice Herzog and de Meuron was established in 1978 by Jacques Herzog (1950) and Pierre de Meuron (1950).
Herzog and de Meuron's projects are characterized by sculptural forms and a surprising use of materials, inspired by Chinese 'scholar rocks', fossils and fashion, and their collaboration with contemporary artists.
One specific feature of Herzog and de Meuron's oeuvre is that every finished project is the result of an involved design process that leaves physical traces behind, in the form of a great variety of formal experiments, sketches, models and material samples.
www.nai.nl /e/extras_e/webfile_hdm   (431 words)

  
  Herzog & de Meuron - Wikipedia
Herzog and de Meuron ist ein 1978 gegründetes schweizerisches Architekturbüro mit internationalem Renommee.
Wegen des unerwartet grossen Besucheransturms ist bereits ein Erweiterungsprojekt in Planung.
Seite über Herzog and de Meuron bei archINFORM
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herzog_%26_de_Meuron   (345 words)

  
 On Campus 01/20/99 --Blanton Museum of Art
Herzog & de Meuron Architekten AG, Basel Switzerland, as design architect, in collaboration with Booziotis & Company Architects of Dallas, as project architect, has been awarded the commission to design the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art's new building on the UT campus in Austin.
Herzog & de Meuron recently finished their first major project in the United States - the Dominus Winery in Yountville, California - which opened to widespread critical acclaim in May 1998.
Herzog & de Meuron will be charged with the task of integrating the new museum into the fabric of campus life while opening it to the city of Austin and beyond.
www.utexas.edu /opa/pubs/oncampus/99oc_issues/oc990120/oc_blanton.html   (1464 words)

  
 herzog&demeuron
Herzog and de Meuron, by contrast, are a more refined and subtle pleasure.
A certain skepticism about the Herzog and de Meuron show is probably justified, given the state of the profession at the world-class level.
Herzog and de Meuron are not playing this game, even if they seem to be using a museum show to advance lofty notions about art and culture.
www.dmkdmk.com /articles/herzogdemeuron.html   (1350 words)

  
 Faculty Profile
In 1978 de Meuron and Jacques Herzog established their office as Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron Partnership which became Herzog and de Meuron in 1997.
In October 2003 Herzog and de Meuron were awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize for the Laban Dance Centre in London (Completion 2003).
Herzog and de Meuron received international attention very early in their career with the Blue House (completed 1980) in Oberwil, Switzerland; the Stone House in Tavole, Italy (1988); and the Apartment Building along a Party Wall in Basel (1988).
www.gsd.harvard.edu /people/faculty/herzog/index.html   (451 words)

  
 :: Arquitectura Barcelona :: Arquitectes : Herzog & de Meuron
Herzog says that it was a particular thrill to try to create a lasting public space around a stadium (the failure of Stadium Australia in Sydney uppermost in his mind) in a culture that values public open space as much as the Chinese.
Herzog and de Meuron's international success, as arguably the most influential, popular and consistently challenging architects working in the world today, has ensured that they are being employed as a brand of quality for more institutions.
Herzog and de Meuron were both born in Basel in 1950 and after studying architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich formed their own office in 1978, becoming 'Herzog & de Meuron' in 1997.
www.geocities.com /medit1976b/herzog.htm   (14154 words)

  
 Builder & Engineer On-line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Swiss practice Herzog de Meuron took the UK architectural scene by storm when it won – to the great surprise of many UK architects – the design competition to turn London's Bankside Power Station into a gallery of modern art.
The Laban Centre in contrast is all Herzog de Meuron.
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron – the practice's founders – are great believers in simplicity and honesty in their architecture.
www.builderandengineer.co.uk /projects/commercial/developments/0802/p54sb0502_laban.html   (989 words)

  
 Herzog & de Meuron - Entwurfsprinzipien   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The buildings and projects of Herzog and de Meuron are not characterised by self-willed however any shaping and by directly used form items and materials, where itself their relationship with the contemporary art, to whom principles "Minimal Art" and " Arte povera " betrays.
In addition, the works of Herzog and de Meuron are characterised by the application of repetition as a composition technique, particularly in comparison with the vast majority of contemporary architects.
With Herzog and de Meuron repetition is an instrument, which permits the design of a space, in which differential intensities can be expressed.
www.deas.harvard.edu /%7Ejones/lab_arch/H_and_dM/translations/hdm_3/hdm_3.html   (359 words)

  
 Herzog and de Meuron's excellent adventure in China
Herzog & de Meuron are doing it in a much more interesting way." To optimize view lines and place spectators closer to the action on the rectangular playing field, the architects designed a bowl that was higher on the short east-west sides than on the north and south.
It seemed to de Meuron that the HOK losers were trying to backhandedly snatch a victory, promising greater experience and lower fees.
De Meuron was summoned to appear at a groundbreaking ceremony on Dec. 24.
www.danwei.org /trends_and_buzz/herzog_and_de_meurons_excellen.php   (7374 words)

  
 Allianz - Herzog/de Meuron and their sensual stadium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Herzog and de Meuron have earned their reputation by continually exceeding public expectations and dreaming up new solutions for exteriors and facades, astounding observers time and again.
Herzog dismisses critics who consider the whole thing is just smoke and mirrors: "Effects, light, top players, drama, it’s all part of the show in soccer," he responds, naming his mission as providing the appropriate stage and scenery.
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have designed a diverse range of projects including blocks of flats, factories, locomotive sheds and university libraries, but they are best known for stadiums and museums.
www.allianz.com /azcom/dp/cda/0,,461492-44,00.html   (882 words)

  
 :Herzog & de Meuron - de Young Museum :: arcspace.com
Founded in 1895 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum, damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, was closed to the public on December 31, 2000.
Historic elements from the former de Young, such as the sphinxes, the original palm trees, and the Pool of Enchantment, have been retained or reconstructed.
The de Young is significant as Herzog and de Meuron's first major building in North America and the first museum the architects have designed from the ground up.
www.arcspace.com /architects/herzog_meuron/de_young.html   (377 words)

  
 interview with architect JACQUES HERZOG | The News is NowPublic.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Herzog and de Meuron is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978.
The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog (1950) and Pierre de Meuron (1950), closely parallel one another, with both attending the ETH in Zurich.
Herzog and de Meuron's early works were reductivist pieces of modernity that registered on the same level as the minimalist art of Donald Judd.
www.nowpublic.com /interview_with_architect_jacques_herzog   (186 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Artist: Herzog and de Meuron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The architecture of Herzog and de Meuron resides at the intersection of fine art and efficient function.
Herzog and de Meuron, on the other hand, reckon with the nature of their space before their designs begin to unfold.
In the recently constructed Tate Modern, not only did Herzog and de Meuron reckon with space, they reckoned with the building that was already there -- an old, enormous power station on the bank of the Thames.
www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1264   (460 words)

  
 ARCH'IT files / PRADA Tokyo. Architecture is Architecture
Herzog & de Meuron's new Prada store in Tokyo opened its doors on the last June the 6th, in Omote Sando Street.
This contributes to a stiffer hyper-static structural behavior, and also underlines the concept of the membrane, by readdressing the perception of the façade towards the ambiguous territory of not knowing whether the surface is made with bars, or the rhomboids are melted down inwards and outwards from a large, thick glass plate.
H&dM concentrated the volume at one corner of the site and used the limit shadow planes to carve the roof of the house.
architettura.supereva.com /files/20031023   (2964 words)

  
 The Art Newspaper -- News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Museum spokeswoman Carolyn Macmillan stresses that the de Young has gone through all the proper channels, and has had approval from the city’s Board of Supervisors on the basis of its environmental impact report, which was deemed “adequate, accurate and complete”.
The de Young has extensive collections of art of the Americas, Oceania and Africa, and is one of the premier museums of the Western United States.
Herzog & de Meuron’s efficient design, of three interconnected, parallel spaces extending from east to west and forming a series of open interior courtyards, opens up more space to the park, while simultaneously providing the museum with double the previous exhibition space, and increasing educational facilities and visitor amenities.
www.theartnewspaper.com /news/article.asp?idart=9295   (504 words)

  
 CCA - Herzog & de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (both born in 1950) have established themselves at the centre of architectural discourse by taking positions that are essentially artistic.
According to Nicholas Olsberg, Director of the CCA, "It is apparent that Herzog & de Meuron look at the world from the threshold between the fanciful and the scientific, the playful and the reverent, the metaphysical and the material.
There is a formal contrast in Herzog & de Meuron’s work between spirals (with their organic symbolism) and the orthogonal forms of industrial mechanics.
cca.qc.ca /pages/Niveau3.asp?page=herzogdemeuron&lang=eng   (1759 words)

  
 Herzog & de Meuron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Herzog and de Meuron is a Swiss architect firm with an international reputation, founded in 1978 by Jacques Herzog (born 19 April 1950 in Basel) and Pierre de Meuron (born 8 May 1950 in Basel), its two main partners.
HdeM's early works were reductivist pieces of modernity that registered on the same level as the minimalist art of Donald Judd.
Their success can be attributed to their skills in revealing unfamiliar or unknown relationships through familiar materials.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herzog_&_de_Meuron   (214 words)

  
 ArchitectureWeek - News - Herzog and de Meuron Pritzker Prize - 2001.0404
Architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Basel, Switzerland, have just received this most prestigious of architectural honors, considered the profession's Nobel Prize, for "significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture."
In the jury's citation, Herzog and de Meuron are said to combine "the artistry of an age-old profession with the fresh approach of a new century's technical capabilities.
Herzog draws parallels between their work and that of artist Andy Warhol: "He used common Pop images to say something new.
www.architectureweek.com /2001/0404/news_1-1.html   (241 words)

  
 Tate Modern | Architects
After a two stage short-listing process the eventual winners were the Swiss firm Herzog and de Meuron who are widely acknowledged as one of the leading practices among the younger generation in Europe.
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were both born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1950 and studied under Aldo Rossi and Dolf Schnelbi.
The Herzog and de Meuron Architecture Studio was founded in Basel in 1978 and has been awarded many prizes including the prestigious Max Beckmann Award in 1996 and Shock prize in 1999.
www.tate.org.uk /modern/building/architect.htm   (207 words)

  
 Eikongraphia » Blog Archive » Vitra, by Herzog & de Meuron
Herzog & de Meuron write about their design: “The VitraHaus uses directly the archetype of the house, that one encounters everywhere in the world.
The design by Herzog & de Meuron does also relate to the adjacent museum-building of by Frank Gehry, whose form-language already features ‘stacking’, ‘pressing’, and ‘extruding’, and which building is also white.
If the work of Herzog & de Meuron is connected to that of the Campana brothers, their work is also connected to nature and further on to the Baroque.
www.eikongraphia.com /?p=799   (574 words)

  
 New York City.com : People : walton : MoMA: Herzog & de Meuron, Perception Restrained
For Herzog and de Meuron, their challenge seems to be creating a new form of visual storage—obscured in part, making it more complicated and thus more enticing to view the objects—as well as a new methodology of organizing these objects.
Thus, Herzog and de Meuron succeed in their endeavor to delineate how The moving image with explicit reference to violence, drama, and sex has received growing attention while traditional artistic mediums require special exhibitions with blockbuster potential in order to be perceived at all.
So by presenting these ever-more constrained views of the permanent collection, Herzog and de Meuron actually achieve a tour de force: they reveal not just their Mercurial curatorial genius, but also that they are simply better architects than MoMA's Yoshio Taniguchi.
www.nyc.com /people/walton/blog/4797/MoMA_Herzog__de_Meuron_Perception_Restrained   (1584 words)

  
 Beijing Olympic Stadium - Herzog & De Meuron - Wired New York Forum
The design by the Basel-based duo, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, was chosen by an international jury and by visitors to an exhibition of projects for the stadium.
Herzog and de Meuron have already won a string of important contracts for major venues, notably St Jakob’s Park stadium, home of Swiss football team, FC Basel.
Herzog and de Meuron’s win comes months after another Basel-based practice, Burckhardt + Partner, won a contract for a large sports complex for the 2008 Olympics.
www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3756   (1233 words)

  
 2001 Laureate Announcement
At that time, Herzog and de Meuron were presented with a $100,000 grant and each received a bronze medallion.
In the case of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the railroad signal box was such a project.
The 2001 presentation on May 7 of the $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize to Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron was held at Jefferson's architectural masterpiece, Monticello, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
www.pritzkerprize.com /2001annc.htm   (3130 words)

  
 WAC | Visual Arts | Exhibition | Herzog and De Meuron: In Process
The firm selected to help design the expansion plan that will lead the Walker into the 21st century, Herzog and de Meuron has long been challenging notions of conventional architecture as well as the museum as institution.
This "archaeology" of Herzog and de Meuron's practice analyzes the diverse cultural sources that inspire it, such as music, film, and visual arts, while also disclosing the firm's vision of architecture as a forum for critical perception of our culture.
Most importantly, Herzog and de Meuron have come to reconceive the museum not as an enclosed space, but rather as a part of the city.
www.walkerart.org /programs/vaexhibherzog.html   (660 words)

  
 Eduardo Souto Moura
But as Antonio Angelillo's analytical essay makes clear, Souto de Moura is as little interested in dusting off models of the early modern movement as in a simplistic adaptation to the context in which he has to build.
Souto de Moura denies that the modern movement has radically altered the typology of housing and emphasizes the similarities between Roman patio houses and the 'court houses' of Mies van der Rohe.
For, as Souto de Moura says in the book devoted to him, 'what is being discussed today is the actual survival of architecture itself'.
www.cidadevirtual.pt /blau/moura.html   (780 words)

  
 The Miami Art Museum :: Miami Art Museum Selects Herzog & de Meuron to Design New Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Based in Basel, Switzerland, and with projects across Europe, in North America, and in Asia, Herzog and de Meuron is known for designs that are at once highly inventive and sensitive to the site, geography, and culture of the region for which the building is planned.
In 2001, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize for their body of work.
The selection of Herzog and de Meuron is the culmination of a six-month research process conducted by the Museum's Architecture Research Committee, chaired by Trustee Rose Ellen Meyerhoff Greene.
sev.prnewswire.com /art/20060918/NYM22718092006-1.html   (853 words)

  
 Archibot.com: Herzog and DeMeuron Win Pritzker Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Perhaps their highest profile project was attained with the completion last year of the conversion of the giant Bankside power plant on the Thames River in London to a new Gallery of Modern Art for the Tate Museum.
The selection of Herzog and de Meuron continues what has become a nine-year trend of laureates from the international community.
Christian de Portzamparc of France was elected Pritzker Laureate in 1994.
www.archibot.com /stories/st_herzog1.html   (1314 words)

  
 Welcome to Herzog & de Meuron.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Herzog and de Muron are an internationaly respected architectual design firm based in Basel, Switzerland since 1978.
New Constantin Brancusi exhibition opens at the Herzog and de Meuron designed Tate Modern on January 29th....
Royal Institute of British Architects announced Herzog and du Meuron as the 2003 winner of the coveted Stirling Prize..
zappa.tvu.ac.uk /01BushnellA/ukindex.htm   (104 words)

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