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Some buildings are famous. Others exist simply as excellent works of architecture. Such is the case with Ohio State University School of Architecture's recently completed Knowlton Hall. Designed by the internationally respected firm Mack Scogin Merrill Elam, Knowlton manages to project both a monumental physicality and a sense of subdued elegance. "Mack Scogin Merrill(...)
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July 2005, New York
Mack Scogin Merrill Elam / Knowlton Hall : source books in architecture 6
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Some buildings are famous. Others exist simply as excellent works of architecture. Such is the case with Ohio State University School of Architecture's recently completed Knowlton Hall. Designed by the internationally respected firm Mack Scogin Merrill Elam, Knowlton manages to project both a monumental physicality and a sense of subdued elegance. "Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects/Knowlton Hall" provides a comprehensive look at this impressive new work using sketches, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs. As with all of the books in the "Source books in architecture series", it is accompanied by commentaries from the architects and critics who explore both the technical and contextual elements of the work.
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Acclaimed Los Angeles architect Franklin D. Israel (1945–1996) created innovative residential projects and office interiors that made him one of the most talked-about designers of his generation. In this vivid account, architectural historian Todd Gannon draws on archival resources, analyses of Israel’s buildings, and recent interviews with the architect’s colleagues,(...)
Franklin D. Israel: A life in architecture
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Acclaimed Los Angeles architect Franklin D. Israel (1945–1996) created innovative residential projects and office interiors that made him one of the most talked-about designers of his generation. In this vivid account, architectural historian Todd Gannon draws on archival resources, analyses of Israel’s buildings, and recent interviews with the architect’s colleagues, clients, and contemporaries, including Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, and Robert A. M. Stern. Gannon traces Israel’s development from his early years and career on the East Coast to his formative world travels and residence at the American Academy in Rome. The author guides readers through the Los Angeles architectural context, Israel’s influential teaching at UCLA, his dalliance with Hollywood, and the personal motivations behind his architecture and design work—all aspects of an influential career that was cut short by his death from AIDS-related complications at the age of fifty.
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With its striking, gridded facade and amoeba-shaped internal cavities, Steven Holl's new dormitory for MIT, Simmons Hall, is without question one of the most original and idiosyncratic architectural statements of recent memory. A veritable catalogue of ideas—from the use of colour to experimentation with form and materials—Simmons Hall is an essay in architectural(...)
Architecture Monographs
August 2004, New York
Steven Holl : Simmons Hall / source books in architecture 5
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With its striking, gridded facade and amoeba-shaped internal cavities, Steven Holl's new dormitory for MIT, Simmons Hall, is without question one of the most original and idiosyncratic architectural statements of recent memory. A veritable catalogue of ideas—from the use of colour to experimentation with form and materials—Simmons Hall is an essay in architectural imagination by one of the profession's most celebrated practitioners. This detailed monograph will allow readers to deconstruct this complex marvel of modern design and construction. Steven Holl Architects/Simmons Hall is documented with sketches, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs at a level of detail that allow complete and careful study of the project. Commentary by the architect and design critics explores both the technical aspects and cultural contexts of the building.
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Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complex—the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion.(...)
Zaha Hadid : BMW central building
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Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complex—the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion. With an audacious and abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the BMW Central Building challenges the notion of building as static and is definitive evidence of architecture as art. Zaha Hadid: BMW Central Building, the seventh volume in the Source Books in Architecture series, provides a comprehensive look at this instant modern masterpiece.
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The latest release in the Forum Pamphlets Series documents the design, fabrication, and installation of Oyler Wu Collaborative's Pendulum Plane, their bold, competition-winning intervention at the L.A. Forum's new gallery in Hollywood. This intricate system of selfbalancing aluminum armatures performs both as reconfigurable vertical wall planes and as a hovering new(...)
Pendulum plane: Oyler Wu Collaborative
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The latest release in the Forum Pamphlets Series documents the design, fabrication, and installation of Oyler Wu Collaborative's Pendulum Plane, their bold, competition-winning intervention at the L.A. Forum's new gallery in Hollywood. This intricate system of selfbalancing aluminum armatures performs both as reconfigurable vertical wall planes and as a hovering new ceiling that multiplies the spatial and curatorial possibilities of the space. Along with a rich presentation of drawings, models, and photographs that follow the work from its conception through completion, the book features an interview between Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu and noted Los Angeles architect Wes Jones, as well as commentaries by Todd Gannon and L.A. Forum president Mohamed Sharif.
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A confederacy of heretics
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A Confederacy of Heretics examines the explosion of activity associated with the Architecture Gallery, the first gallery in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to architecture and urban design.
A confederacy of heretics
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A Confederacy of Heretics examines the explosion of activity associated with the Architecture Gallery, the first gallery in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to architecture and urban design.
Architectural Theory
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The Miller House, with its deft synthesis of modernist elements with American vernacular construction and an array of historical sources, marks a highly original swerve from modernist orthodoxy and a landmark achievement in American architecture. Et in Suburbia Ego: José Oubrerie's Miller House gathers new commentary and interpretation by leading voices in contemporary(...)
Et in Suburbia Ego: José Oubrerie's Miller House
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The Miller House, with its deft synthesis of modernist elements with American vernacular construction and an array of historical sources, marks a highly original swerve from modernist orthodoxy and a landmark achievement in American architecture. Et in Suburbia Ego: José Oubrerie's Miller House gathers new commentary and interpretation by leading voices in contemporary architecture including Jeffrey Kipnis, Kenneth Frampton and Douglas Graf alongside newly commissioned photographs and previously unpublished drawings and models from Oubrerie's archive, documenting the house at a level of detail rarely seen in architectural monographs.
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The second volume of the source books in architecture series, "The light construction reader" is a collection of 38 essays that explores the themes and issues surrounding this exhibition. Included here are essays by exhibition curator Terence Riley as well as noted architects and critics such as Peter Eisenman, Anthony Vidler, Greg Lynn, and Robin Evans. The complete(...)
The light construction reader / source books in architecture 2
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The second volume of the source books in architecture series, "The light construction reader" is a collection of 38 essays that explores the themes and issues surrounding this exhibition. Included here are essays by exhibition curator Terence Riley as well as noted architects and critics such as Peter Eisenman, Anthony Vidler, Greg Lynn, and Robin Evans. The complete transcripts of the Light Construction Symposium, held at Columbia University in conjunction with the exhibition, are also included. Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky’s essay 'Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal' is presented here for the first time together with its lesser-known sequel of 1971. Also represented are Italo Calvino, Jacques Derrida, Jean Starobinski, and many others.
Materials and Lighting
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"UN Studio/Erasmus Bridge" explores the eponymous Rotterdam bridge that brought UN Studio, the Dutch firm of Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, into the architectural spotlight. This volume features extensive photographic documentation by Hans Jurgen Commerell.
May 2004, New York
UN Studio : Erasmus bridge / source books in architecture 4
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"UN Studio/Erasmus Bridge" explores the eponymous Rotterdam bridge that brought UN Studio, the Dutch firm of Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, into the architectural spotlight. This volume features extensive photographic documentation by Hans Jurgen Commerell.
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"Bernard Tschumi/Zénith de Rouen" provides a detailed presentation of Bernard Tschumi's recently completed concert hall and exhibition complex in Rouen, France. This is the third in the new "Source Books in Architecture" series from Ohio State University.
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September 2003, New York
Bernard Tschumi : Zenith de Rouen / source books in architecture 3
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"Bernard Tschumi/Zénith de Rouen" provides a detailed presentation of Bernard Tschumi's recently completed concert hall and exhibition complex in Rouen, France. This is the third in the new "Source Books in Architecture" series from Ohio State University.
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