Portman\u2019s America & Other Speculations takes an unconventional and speculative approach towards the understanding and future potentials of the work of one of the world\u2019s most creative, controversial, daring, and prolific architects, John Portman. Combining the talents of an architect, artist and developer, he was able to embark on a series of large-scale building projects \u2013 megastructures \u2013 that radically redefined the relationship of architecture to the city and its citizens.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of [Portman\u2019s] buildings are [\u2026] sharing common programs and approaches to their design,\u201d says Mohsen Mostafavi, editor of Portman\u2019s America & Other Speculations. \u201cNevertheless they manage to convey a particular spatial strategy that makes each of them distinct \u2013 different from the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Portman\u2019s own voice and ideas complement the contributions of others, including new photographs by Iwan Baan, to present a more complex and nuanced reading of both the architect and his architecture. Finally, the repertoire of Portman\u2019s buildings is analyzed in meticulous detail and used by a group of students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a catalyst for a host of divergent and new architectural speculations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mohsen Mostafavi (Ed.)
\nISBN 978-3-03778-532-4
\nLars Muller
\nBrochura, 356 pp, 16,5 \u00d7 24 cm
\nEnglish
\n2017<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4436,"template":"","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[303,72,71],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4542","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-arquitectos-arquitectura-uk-livros-em-ingles","7":"product_cat-arquitectura-uk","8":"product_cat-livros-em-ingles","10":"entry","11":"has-media","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"sale","16":"taxable","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple","20":"col","21":"span_1_of_3","22":"owp-content-left","23":"owp-thumbs-layout-horizontal","24":"owp-btn-normal","25":"owp-tabs-layout-horizontal","26":"has-no-thumbnails","27":"circle-sale"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blaubookshop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blaubookshop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blaubookshop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blaubookshop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blaubookshop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blaubookshop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blaubookshop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blaubookshop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blaubookshop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}