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This work uses drawings, sketches and computer images to capture a
moment in the life of one of the world's busiest - and most
creative - architectural offices. For three decades a leading
figure in UK architecture, Terry Farrell enjoys a worldwide
reputation, with major architectural and urban design projects in
the UK and Asia. Best known for his exuberant London buildings of
the 1980s - notably TV-am, Embankment Place at Charing Cross and
the MI6 building - Farrell has now moved into a freely expressive
mode of design, with the emphasis on sensuous forms and accessible
imagery, influenced by working much more overseas. This snapshot of
work comprises evocative drawings, models and collages, ranging
from first concepts through exploratory investigations to
presentation images. By showing the way in which ideas are
elaborated, explored and developed, it offers insight into the
creative processes of the architect. In a trenchant personal essay,
Terry Farrell sets out his artistic credo, presenting the city as
man's greatest work of art and attacking the cult of the minimal.
In a foreword Professor Robert Maxwell of Princeton University
appraises and applauds Farrell's special contribution to the art of
making cities.
With a body of work firmly at the heart of architectural theory and
discourse, Robert Maxwell is undoubtedly one of the most respected
architectural writers and educators of recent times. Emeritus
Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, Robert Maxwell
is a scholar known worldwide for critical writing that looks at
modern and contemporary architecture in relation to our wider
culture, including art, literature and music. A Few Years of
Writing: Interspersed with Some Facts of Life brings together a
collection of over 30 of Maxwell's writings from the late twentieth
century to the present, through which are woven events and
occasions from his own diary that expand on debates in the world of
architecture throughout the period. Texts include "Richard Rogers:
an Evaluation", first published in Casabella in February 1994;
"Sounds and Sweet Airs at Stuttgart", a review of the Music School
at Stuttgart, in the RIBA Journal in October 1996; an obituary of
Philip Johnson in The Architectural Review, in March 2005; and
"Eisenman: The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture", in Building
Design in September 2006. This engaging collection, at once
intimate and autobiographical, insightful and perceptive, as well
as critical and theoretical, results in a rich description of the
culture of architecture across two decades towards the close of the
last century and during the early years of the present. A Few Years
of Writing: Interspersed with Some Facts of Life is the first of
two books of Robert Maxwell's writing to be published by Artifice,
with the second coming out in Spring 2013.
Chris Dyson Architects specialise in finding new solutions for
sensitive buildings. They have become leaders in conservation and
adaptation, and are renowned for their infallible attention to
detail, flair for innovative and modern design, and application of
design intelligence to every project. Dyson's own award-winning
home and studio in Spitalfields, London, is carved from one of the
coveted earlyeighteenth century houses which typify the area and is
a triumph in sensitive restoration and bold modernisation.
The firm is perhaps best known for designing and restoring bespoke
London homes. Describing himself as a "Classical Modernist," Chris
Dyson approaches each building with the aim of rationalising the
space, making it clean-lined and easy to navigate; the home's
function and soul lead the design. The team looks to enhance what
is already there, employing specialist craftsmen and paying close
attention to the detailing of the house before adding sleek
contemporary elements.
In Chris Dyson Architects: Practise & Projects, clients,
colleagues and contemporaries each reflect upon the firm's
expansive range of expertise and careful design process, with every
project unique both in terms of aesthetic and spatial experience.
Among those discussing the practice's work are artists Mona Hatoum
and Jock McFadyen, writers Jeanette Winterson, Sue Hubbard, Rodney
Archer, James Pallister, and architectural critic Robert Maxwell.
Adept at moving between the examination of modern and contemporary
architecture, art, literature and music, Robert Maxwell is a
respected scholar whose critical writings articulate the role
architecture plays in contemporary culture. In Ancient Wisdom And
Modern Knowhow, Maxwell considers the notion of 'doubt' encountered
by the modern architect. In ten chapters that draw upon writers and
topics as diverse and engaging as Andre Malraux and his concept of
the Musee Imaginaire, Colin Rowe and his exploration of "Mannerism
in Modern Architecture" as well as Rowe's book with Fred Koetter,
Collage City, and examining works by artists including Albrecht
Du?rer, Picasso and Duchamp and architects including James
Stirling, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind, Maxwell
steps effortlessly through a range of ideas and concepts, to create
an engaging and provocative thesis. Ancient Wisdom and Modern
Knowhow is the second of two new books to be published by Artifice
books on architecture by Professor Robert Maxwell, Emeritus
Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. The first, A Few
Years of Writing Interspersed with some Facts of Life, was
published in autumn 2012.
Rick Mather Architects (RMA) have been working in London since the
early 70s. Best known for their award winning museum extensions,
such as the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Maritime
Museum, RMA's portfolio spans a broad spectrum of projects,
including residential and student housing, master plans and urban
design for both renovations and new buildings. They are world
renowned for their intuitive sense of place and context, as well as
their pioneering technologies in structural glass and sustainable
design. The book establishes Rick Mather's unique approach to
resolving complex design issues on both a large scale and in the
fine details; the work of the practice is described in accessible
terms through the texts and through a wealth of visual material,
including photography and drawings supplied by the practice.
Alongside this documentation, the visual aspect is supplemented by
reproduced paintings, maps and drawings from a diverse range of
sources, which have inspired and informed the work. Over the past
33 years, the practice has undertaken 500 projects. These include
the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the student halls of residence in
Norfolk; the Ashmolean Museum extension, Oxford; the masterplanning
of London's South Bank Centre; as well as Mather's iconic housing
of the 1980s and 90s. This book will cover the full range of the
projects, exploring Mather's response to the technical and social
requirements of the briefs, and the way that a US born architect
has re-imagined Britain's culture and made it his own.
Custom and Innovation: John Miller + Partners is the first
publication devoted to the work of John Miller + Partners, and
explores Miller's work from his student days at the Architectural
Association, to his present practice as a multi-award winning firm.
The book provides an insight into the contemporary fascination with
museum buildings as well as the revived interest on post-war
modernism both in Europe and the USA. John Miller + Partners is
responsible for some of the most highly regarded museum and
university projects of the past 25 years, such as the Queen's
Building and the extension to Tate Britain, as well as schemes for
the Fitzwilliam Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.
Custom and Innovation: John Miller + Partners takes a close look at
the architects' body of work, and examines its working practices,
such as John Miller's indebtedness to Modernism and its proponents,
such as Le Corbusier. Further, the book sets out the practice's
departure from its precedents by showing its work to be wholly
contemporary and of its moment.
Fascinating texts by respected architects and writers elucidate the
firm's contribution to modern architecture. Kenneth Frampton, well
known for his writing on twentieth century architecture, looks at
the work of John Miller in the context of the museum building, and
other typologies he works with. Robert Maxwell, Emeritus Professor
of Architecture at Princeton, writes extensively on architecture,
combining consultancy and architectural criticism, and here looks
at the historical context of John Miller + Partners' work. Finally,
Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, London, focuses on the
early work produced by John Miller through his student days to his
partnership with Alan Colquhoun.
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