Imagine Buildings Floating like Clouds: Thoughts and Visions on Contemporary Architecture from 101 Key Creatives

In this thought-provoking collection of interviews, Vladimir Belogolovsky reflects on nearly 20 years of conversations with leading architects and others, selecting one essential part to form a question-and-answer that would expose the complexity of their thinking process, while comparing and contrasting them to one another, thereby distilling more than 100 ideas. His engaging narrative captures the stories behind every project and every personality while exploring the important question - what makes a building architecture? The selection of interviews gathers many answers but inevitably, also many more questions. This book represents people who work in diverse places culturally and climatically and came of age in very different times - from the revolutionary 1960s to our own time, and as such forms an invaluable reference. AUTHOR: Vladimir Belogolovsky (b. 1970, Odessa, Ukraine) is an American curator and critic. He graduated from the Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1996. After practicing architecture for 12 years, he founded his New York–based Curatorial Project, a nonprofit, which focuses on curating and designing architectural exhibitions worldwide. He writes for Arquitectura Viva (Madrid) and SPEECH (Berlin) and is a columnist on ArchDaily and STIR. He has interviewed over 350 leading international architects and has written 15 books, including China Dialogues (ORO Editions, 2021), Iconic New York (DOM, 2019); Conversations with Peter Eisenman (DOM, 2016); Conversations with Architects (DOM, 2015); Harry Seidler: Lifework (Rizzoli, 2014); and Soviet Modernism: 1955-1985 (TATLIN, 2010). Belogolovsky has curated and produced over 50 international exhibitions. Among these are Architects' Voices Series (World Tour since 2016), world tours on the work of Emilio Ambasz, and Harry Seidler, an American tour on Colombian architecture, Green House exhibition at the Zodchestvo International Architecture Festival in Moscow (2009), and Chess Game exhibition for the Russian Pavilion at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale. He has lectured at universities and museums in more than 30 countries. In 2018, Belogolovsky spent the fall semester teaching at Tsinghua University in Beijing as a visiting scholar. SELLING POINTS: . An inspiring record of many years of conversations by the author with various architects and others, with the aim being to challenge the reader through the presentation of diverse sources of inspiration . Provides a wealth of insight, opinions, and thoughts from 73 architects, 12 artists, 8 photographers, 4 critics, 2 designers, and 1 curator . An important reference book containing the thoughts and visions of more than 100 architects, designers, artists, and other visionaries

Table of Contents:
Introduction In Conversation With... Raimund Abraham Vito Acconci David Adjaye Will Alsop Emilio Ambasz Refik Anadol Paul Andreu Alejandro Aravena Asymptote Iwan Baan Cecil Balmond Shigeru Ban Boris Bernaskoni Aaron Betsky Tatiana Bilbao Stefano Boeri Ricardo Bofill Mario Botta Daniel Buren Alberto Campo Baeza Douglas Cardinal James Carpenter Yung Ho Chang Christo Jean Louis Cohen Odile Decq Thomas Demand Liz Diller and Ric Scofidio Gong Dong Balkrishna Doshi Peter Eisenman Ensamble Studio Norman Foster Alex Fradkin Kenneth Frampton Yona Friedman Massimiliano Fuksas and Doriana Fuksas Jeanne Gang Laurian Ghinitoiu John Gollings Dan Graham Herb Greene Zaha Hadid Roland Halbe Steven Holl Zvi Hecker Sheila Hicks Bjarke Ingels Junya Ishigami Toyo Ito Helmut Jahn Bijoy Jain Charles Jencks Eddie Jones Totan Kuzembaev Kengo Kuma Nic Lehoux Daniel Libeskind LOT-EK Luftwerk Light Yansong Ma Fumihiko Maki H. Jeunger Mayer Thom Mayne Giancarlo Mazzanti Richard Meier Paulo Mendes da Rocha Rafael Moneo Toshiko Mori Glenn Murcutt Eric Owen Moss Neri&Hu Juhani Pallasmaa Richard Pare Cesar Pelli Renzo Piano Carme Pigem of RCR Arquitectes Christian de Portzamparc Antoine Predock Wolf Prix Mauricio Rocha Moshe Safdie Richard Schulman Richard Serra Alvaro Siza Michael Sorkin Eduardo Souto de Moura Frank Stella Sergei Tchoban Stanley Tigerman Bernard Tschumi Lin Utzon Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown Massimo Vignelli Rafael Vinoly Nghia Vo Trong Madelon Vriesendorp Shu Wang John Wardle James Wines WOHA

About the Author :
Vladimir Belogolovsky (b. 1970, Odessa, Ukraine) is an American curator and critic. He graduated from the Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1996. After practicing architecture for 12 years, he founded his New York–based Curatorial Project, a nonprofit that focuses on curating and designing architectural exhibitions worldwide. He writes for Arquitectura Viva (Madrid) and SPEECH (Berlin) and is a columnist on ArchDaily and STIR. He has interviewed over 350 leading international architects and has written fifteen books. Belogolovsky has curated and produced over 50 international exhibitions. He has lectured at universities and museums in more than 30 countries. 

Review :
"With responses from over 100 well-known figures, the publication offers readers a diverse range of opinions and ideas from past to present, and from some who are no longer with us." - Lynne Myers, DesignBoom "...a fascinating survey of the design landscape." - Elle Decoration "A fascinating compendium of interviews with an international roster of important creatives by Ukraine-born Vladimir Belogolovsky, an American architect and a curator and designer of architecture exhibition." - Interior Design magazine