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Stanley Saitowitz
This stunning monograph -- the first on his work -- presents the oeuvre of San Francisco-based architect Stanley Saitowitz. Broad in scope, it begins with his earliest work in his native South Africa (see our book House in the Transvaal, page 12) and continues up to his recent projects, including the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, Mill Race Park in Columbus, Ohio, and the award-winning design for the New England Holocaust Memorial, built next to the Boston City Hall. Saitowitz's designs -- at once modern and organic -- have been the subject of numerous design exhibitions and have won several design awards. Stanley Saitowitz, beautifully illustrated throughout with duotones and drawings of built work, includes a poetic textual interpretation of the art of architecture by Saitowitz as well as an introduction by Michael Bell and a postscript by Lars Lerup.
Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects, Inc
Architect Stanley Saitowitz is known for a practice that unites the qualities of early modern architecture with the construction techniques, materials, and urban and social attributes of the twenty-first century. This monograph, the first on Stanley Saitowitz Office, presents fifty projects from more than thirty years of practice.
Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects
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.00The projects describe allied explorations of Outsides and Insides, Places and Programs, Contexts and Contents.00Outsides 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.00Insides are about blankness, emptiness to provide indeterminate shelter which frees occupants to inhabit space at their will. We aim to make architecture as apparatus rather than object, instrument rather than monument. We think of buildings as support for human events, more like a camera than a photograph, more like a telephone than a conversation.
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American Playgrounds
A compelling history, a manifesto, and a manual for change.
Solid States
DVD features highlights from the conference held at Columbia University.
Live-Work Planning and Design
“Although the live-work concept is now accepted among progressive urban design and planning professionals, the specifics that define the term, and its application, remain sketchy. This encyclopedic work is sure to change that, providing the critical information that is needed by architects, planners and citizens.” -Peter Katz, Author, The New Urbanism, and Planning Director, Arlington County, Virginia Live-Work Planning and Design is the only comprehensive guide to the design and planning of live-work spaces for architects, designers, and urban planners. Readers will learn from built examples of live-work, both new construction and renovation, in a variety of locations. Urban planners, developers, and economic development staff will learn how various municipalities have developed and incorporated live-work within building codes and city plans. The author, whose pioneering website, www.live-work.com, has been guiding practitioners and users of live-work since 1998, is the United States' leading expert on the subject.
Louis I. Kahn's Jewish Architecture
In 1961, famed architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) received a commission to design a new synagogue. His client was one of the oldest Sephardic Orthodox congregations in the United States: Philadelphia's Mikveh Israel. Due to the loss of financial backing, Kahn's plans were never realized. Nevertheless, the haunting and imaginative schemes for Mikveh Israel remain among Kahn's most revered designs. Susan G. Solomon uses Kahn's designs for Mikveh Israel as a lens through which to examine the transformation of the American synagogue from 1955 to 1970. She shows how Kahn wrestled with issues that challenged postwar Jewish institutions and evaluates his creative attempts to bridge modernism and Judaism. She argues that Kahn provided a fresh paradigm for synagogues, one that offered innovations in planning, decoration, and the incorporation of light and nature into building design.
Inside Design Now
Inside Design Now takes the pulse of American design in the new millennium, providing a fascinating tour of cutting-edge trends in architecture, interiors, landscape, fashion, graphics, and new media. Featuring eighty emerging and established designers including 2 x 4, Mike Mills, Peter Eisenman, Fuse Project, Tod Machover, Paula Scher, Jennifer Siegal, and Isaac Mizrahi Inside Design Now illustrates the most innovative and provocative thinking in design today. Each designers work is presented with a double-page spread and a series of full-color images. Essays explore the role of the designer in todays culture, contemporary ideas of beauty and functionality, and what the future holds in the realm of design. Sensuous materials, lush patterns, and exquisite details come together with new technologies, pop imagery, and fresh approaches to scale, color, and construction in the works reproduced in this volume. Inside Design Now accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Cooper Hewitt Museum of National Design beginning in April 2003.
Café & Restaurant Design
For years, the growing trend for a new gastronomic culture has been noticeable: cafes, bars and restaurants become design challenges for architects, interior architects and designers. With 400 pages and over 500 photos, this book gives the latest, up-to-the minute overview of cafes and restaurants from all over the world, with top-class interior design, supplemented by short descriptions, biographies of the architects and designers as well as all the important addresses. Book jacket.
