The first book dedicated to the career of the preeminent American
architect, Henry N. Cobb. As a builder, teacher, and mentor, Henry
N. Cobb has been one of the most eloquent voices in architecture
for well over half a century. A founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed
& Partners, where he has worked actively and continuously since
its inception in 1955, his practice encompasses a wide variety of
building types, with projects across the world that resound in the
public imagination. Cobb's sensitivity to place and use generate
surprising and unparalleled forms in educational and civic
buildings - such as the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, the
Anderson School of Management at UCLA, the John Joseph Moakley U.S.
Courthouse in Boston, and Palazzo Lombardia in Milan - or in
corporate and commercial projects, such as the John Hancock Tower
in Boston, Fountain Place Tower in Dallas, Tour EDF at La Defense
in Paris, and Four Seasons Hotel and Residences at One Dalton, now
under construction in Boston. Henry N. Cobb: Words & Works
1948-2018 is his first book, uniquely combining poetic analyses of
his distinguished works with essays and lectures that cover topics
about architecture's past, present, and future. His voice is
complemented by interviews and discussions with Michael Graves,
Robert A.M. Stern, Hal Foster, Charles Gwathmey, Paolo Conrad
Bercah, Cynthia Davidson, Peter Eisenman, Mark Pasnik, and John
Hejduk. Handsomely designed by OverUnder, this book is packaged in
a portable size evocative of the Library of America series. A
longtime educator--and chair of the Harvard Graduate School of
Design from 1980 to 1985 - Cobb takes up his extensive subject
matter in a thoughtful and engaging manner. To anyone interested in
the development of American architecture in its transition from
modernism to postmodernism and into the era of high-tech
starchitecture, there are a number of treasures here to discover.
Henry N. Cobb is a landmark survey - in words and works - of one of
the great architects of our time.
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