Marte.Marte Architects
Monography, Springer Vienna, 2008
This is an architecture book organized in five acts with essays. It is not organized according by buildings. The essays are about Personages / The Outside / The Inside / The Ideas / The Protagonists punctuated with plans and texts, and the reflections of four authors. The buildings appear in all acts, their separate images are cross references that link the book as a virtual whole. The gallery of clients is the prologue, the clients are portrayed inside, in front of and next to their buildings. The projects appear from the outside in the second act, complemented with planning insights. The view sweeps through inner worlds in the third act, harshly contrasted by aerial views. The forth act shows ideas that were not realized, the pure proposals made for competition panels; The epilogue is a portfolio on the architects and their team.