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These seventy-five works are the harvest of seventeen years of
exploration from our office in San Francisco. With this admired
city as backdrop, we search for ways to produce fitting
contemporary architecture in its highly conservative terrain. These
local efforts have provided opportunities to also work nationally.
The projects describe allied explorations of Outsides and Insides,
Places and Programs, Contexts and Contents. Outsides are about
building the evolving city with continuity. More than 80% of the
fabric of cities is housing, so urban grain is predominantly
composed of dwellings, and multifamily housing has become a focus
of our work where we have explored ways to be both contextual and
contemporary simultaneously. Insides are about blankness, emptiness
to provide indeterminate shelter which frees occupants to inhabit
space at their will.
Robert Ernest was an architect of rare promise and remarkable early
success, whose award-winning career was cut short by cancer at age
28 in 1962. Despite the brevity of Ernest’s life, his education
and practice were intertwined with some of the most important
figures in architecture, including his interactions with Louis I.
Kahn and Paul Rudolph. Ernest’s exceptional architectural
designs, though honoured during his lifetime with three Progressive
Architecture Awards and one Record Houses Award, have never been
documented in a comprehensive manner, and are now almost completely
lost to disciplinary history. Yet the materials in the
architect’s personal and professional archives — upon which
this book is almost entirely based — clearly indicate that Ernest
was a remarkably talented and unusually gifted architectural
designer, whose future promise and potential were inestimable.
Ernest’s two built works, both realised before he had turned 28,
his one work built after his death, as well as the remarkably
innovative unrealised projects documented in his archives, indicate
that had Ernest lived to a normal lifespan, he would have without
question been one of the most important architects of his
generation, with the potential to design precedent-setting
buildings equal to those realised by the most recognised architects
in the 60 years after his death.
The acclaimed survey of the life and works of the celebrated
Italian modernist master, Carlo Scarpa, from the highly-regarded
architectural author, Robert McCarter The work of Carlo Scarpa
challenged, and continues to challenge, accepted notions of modern
architecture. While several books have been published on his work,
none has approached the breadth and depth of this classic monograph
by Robert McCarter, who is celebrated for his meticulously
researched, experientially based, and jargon-free accounts of key
figures in modern architecture. This book is the definitive study
of Scarpa's many accomplishments, including such works at the
Canova Museum, the Castelvecchio Museum, and the Brion Cemetery,
among others.
A thoroughly updated and redesigned edition of McCarter's esteemed
monograph on the globally-revered modern master - includes
Roosevelt Island, Four Freedoms Park, which was completed after
Kahn's death The significance of the work of Louis I Kahn, one of
the greatest influences on post-WWII world architecture, has
skyrocketed in the twenty-first century. Robert McCarter's
bestselling and critically-acclaimed monograph explains how Kahn
redefined Modern architecture and why his work remains a
fundamental source for architects and designers today. Now
thoughtfully updated, this comprehensive and extensively
illustrated overview features both built and unbuilt projects,
including Yale University Art Gallery, Kimbell Art Museum, and the
Salk Institute, along with his work in India and Bangladesh, as
well as a project realized forty years after Kahn's death - New
York City's Four Freedoms Park.
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, the influential and
award-winning firm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have an
international reputation. Producing a wide range of projects both
in Canada and further afield, they work in a sophisticated modern
vernacular idiom, drawing inspiration from a rich local heritage of
building types and reinterpreting them according to the best
practices of 21st-century architecture. It is above all for their
dignified and beautiful houses perched on the wild, rocky coasts of
Nova Scotia that the firm is recognized. Overlooking the Atlantic
Ocean, this remarkable body of work is based around a number of
plan types that answer to the particular local climate: open to the
sun but sheltered from the winds, and built using traditional
materials that are allowed to weather, these dwellings embody the
architects' engagement with their unique surroundings and material
culture. This new monograph covers MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple
Architects' complete work. Introductions by renowned architectural
writers set the scene, while individual projects are illustrated
through evocative photographs and detailed plans and drawings. What
emerges is a celebration of an architecture that is both practical
and deeply poetic.
A comprehensive look at the life and work of one of the 20th
century's most influential architects Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999) was
a Dutch architect, writer, and teacher who helped redefine Modern
architecture in the second half of the 20th century. As an advocate
for architecture's engagement with history, culture, climate, and
the lived human experience of buildings and urban spaces, he
created designs that privileged place and the daily rituals in the
lives of its inhabitants over universal ideals. In this volume,
enlivened by 300 illustrations from the Aldo van Eyck archive,
Robert McCarter provides the first comprehensive study of van
Eyck's 50-year career since his death, guiding readers through the
architect's buildings and unrealized projects, with a focus on the
interior spatial experience and on the design and construction
processes. Highlighted projects include the Amsterdam Orphanage,
the Roman Catholic Church in The Hague, and some of the hundreds of
playgrounds he famously designed over the course of his career.
McCarter also investigates how van Eyck's writings and lectures
convey the importance of architecture in the everyday lives of
people around the world and throughout history. By presenting his
design work together with the principles on which it was founded,
McCarter illuminates van Eyck's ethical interpretation of
architecture's place in the world.
The evolution of modern architecture has been inextricably
entangled in issues of politics, nationalism, and the environment,
creating a tension between local context and global development
that is unresolved to this day. In this context, few writers have
exerted as much influence on architectural theory and practice as
Kenneth Frampton. In this illustrated volume, twenty-nine
contributors from around the world amplify and pay tribute to his
writing and thought. Intended for all those concerned with the
built environment, this book offers further evidence of how this
scholar, humanist, and teacher has shaped our understanding of the
working reality of the architect. The premise of Modern
Architecture and the Lifeworld is rooted in Frampton's
understanding of how architecture must engage with both cultural
and constructional imperatives; and it addresses strategies for
grappling with contemporary concerns such as regional identity
amidst urban globalization, and tectonic culture and landform in
the construction of place. Supported by the Graham Foundation for
Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
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Steven Holl (Hardcover)
Steven Holl; Robert McCarter
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Comprehensive monograph on one of America's greatest living
architects by award-winning author and architecture critic Robert
McCarter. This in-depth monograph is devoted to one of the leading
United States architects on the contemporary scene: Steven Holl
(b.1947). Richly illustrated with hundreds of colour photographs
and Holl's own watercolours, the book introduces the artist's
personality and works, and the studio he founded in 1976, Steven
Holl architects. Holl studied architecture at the University of
Washington at Seattle, and later in Rome and at the Architectural
Association in London. He has worked both in the United States and
in Europe, and a great deal in the East, especially in Japan. His
most important designs, outstanding in their respect for the
cultural and historical environment in which they are set, include
the Makuhari residential complex in Japan, the St. Ignatius chapel
at the University of Seattle, the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Helsinki and the extension of the Cranbrook Institute of Science at
Bloomfield Hills in Michigan. A professor at the Graduate School of
Architecture of Columbia University, Holl has held courses and
given lectures in several other institutions in the United States.
He has won many awards, including the Arnold W Brunner prize for
architecture in 1990, and the Alvar Aalto medal in 1998. Robert
McCarter has known and taught with Holl for over 30 years and
provides an authoritative and personal examination of Holl and his
work. A must-own book for architects as well as for students of the
discipline. Richly illustrated with hundreds of colour photographs
and Holl's own watercolours.
Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References opens up a unique and
richly layered view of the architectural work and thinking of this
internationally renowned Dutch architect. Underlying Arets'
practice, research and teaching is his concept of "a wonderful
world", an optimistic outlook on how the world will evolve in the
next 75 years.In addition to portfolios of 60 exemplary projects
and designs by his studio, this book presents 5 lectures, and 5
debates between Arets and other thinkers and practitioners, as well
as an extensive series of 10 interviews with Arets. More than
simply presenting his work alongside essays and project
descriptions, Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References reveals the
interaction between Arets' biography and his architectural
thinking, teaching and design in the evolution of his distinguished
career. As well as being a congenial interview partner, Robert
McCarter, Professor of Architecture at Washington University (St.
Louis), provides an insightful concluding essay on Arets'
dialogical practice. The multi-layered content finds perfect form
and expression in the exceptional book design and layout by Irma
Boom Office.
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Whistle The Whale (Paperback)
Robert McCarter; Illustrated by Jim Johnson, Enrique Vignolo
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The architect Alvar Aalto once argued that what mattered in
architecture was not what a building 'looks like' on the day it
opens, but what it 'is like' to live in thirty years later. In this
book Robert McCarter presents a persuasive defence of why and how
interior spatial experience is the necessary starting point for
design, and why the quality of that experience is the only
appropriate means of evaluating a work of architecture after it is
built.We live in an age dominated by images. We often feel we
'know' architecture and the places it makes, both old and new,
through the photos of buildings we see in print and online, without
ever inhabiting their spaces. McCarter argues that we need to
counter our contemporary obsession with exterior views and forms,
and makes a powerful case for the primacy of the interior
experience in architecture.The Space Within explores how interior
space has been integral to the development of Modern architecture
from the late 1800s to today, and how generations of architects
have engaged with interior space and its experience in their design
processes.In doing so, they fundamentally transformed the
traditional methods and goals of architectural composition. As
McCarter argues, for many of the most recognized and respected
architects practising today, the conception of the interior spatial
experience continues to be the starting point for design. Through
historical and current examples of architectural works he takes us
through how this is done, and eloquently places us within the
spaces.
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