Bolles+Wilson, Nieuwe Luxor Theater, Rotterdam - Hardcover

The Luxor is a significant milestone in the uvre of Bolles + Wilson. As a major public building, it pursues themes first tested in the 1993 new city library in Munster: a characteristic plan form, an intervention that redefines its context, and a synthesis of the abstract with a spatial warmth, an ambience that communicates directly and subliminally to a wide audience base. The architecture of this German/Australian duo does not fit easily into conventional architectural genres. Smallness, intimacy, and precise details characterise their work, just like an increasing number of urban interventions that have made a major impact on cities like Hengelo, The Hague or Magdeburg. The design of the Luxor Theatre, the process of its realisation, Bolles + Wilson's surrounding urban fields and, most importantly, the internal life in the building engendered by the architecture are fully presented in this book.

Lars Lerup is dean of the School of Architecture at the Rice University in Houston, Texas. Mirko Zardini has been a member of the editorial board of Casabella and Lotus International and visiting professor at several universities including Lausanne Polytechnique and Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Christian Richters studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen. He is one of the most sought-after architectural photographers in Europe today.