Alfreso Arribas Works 92-2000
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Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3764358963
Format: hardback
207pp
Price: DM138
Review Date: 20 July 2000
Review: This finely illustrated volume covers the work of the young (born 1954) Spanish architect, Alfredo Arribas. This Barcelona-based architect is well known worldwide. His themes are global: his architectural forms and languages relate to typical social behaviour and the demands of global, transnational, mediatic and mass culture. The architectural works in the book are in Spain, Japan, China, Germany, France, Belgium and Italy. The Barcelona buildings were closely connected with the 1992 Olympic games; those in the far east are for a Spanish Art museum, golfclub, hotel, a children's play park, a revolving tower, and cinemas, shopping mall and residential tower in Shanghai; and other building projects include those dedicated to leisure pursuits in various European cities (Frankfurt, Paris, Leipzig, Antwerp etc.).