Wood architecture now philip jodidio biography

          Philip Jodidio, born in New Jersey in graduated from Harvard where he studied the history of art and economics....

          The author: Philip Jodidio (born ) studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years.

        1. The author: Philip Jodidio (born ) studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years.
        2. Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years.
        3. Philip Jodidio, born in New Jersey in graduated from Harvard where he studied the history of art and economics.
        4. Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years.
        5. Economical, ecological, and fundamentally warm, wood architecture is as contemporary as it gets.

          6. This is an edited excerpt by Philip Jodidio from TASCHEN’s upcoming title Norman Foster.

          In a 2007 conference, Norman Foster stated: “As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown." That talk was about the green agenda, which he termed the most important issue of the day, affirming that it is “not about fashion but about survival.” Admittedly, the rise in public interest in contemporary architecture that followed the creation of the Pritzker Prize in 1979 (Foster was the 1999 winner) has been focused on forms and personalities more than on substance.

          Philip Johnson, the first winner of the shiny award, made his view clear: “Architecture is art, nothing else.” Essays, magazines, and books have delighted in the foibles, verbal and sartorial, of celebrated architects, the hats, and eyeglasses of genius.

          Of course, figures like Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier did not wait for a prize to be famous, and it see