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Five North American Architects - An Anthology brings together five architectural practices which, while all distinct, share a particularly sensitive feeling for the impact of craftsmanship and climate on the generation of form, as well as an equally shared concern for the expressive tactility of material and the articulation of structure under the impact of light. The book is an in depth survey of recent work by Steven Holl (New York), Rick Joy (Tucson) John and Patricia Patkau (Vancouver), Stanley Saitowitz (San Francisco), and Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe (Toronto). The regional specificity of the work is considered against a larger North American context, allowing one to assess the practice of architecture across the continent today.
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The quintessential Japanese architect of today, Kengo Kuma has forged a modern design language that artfully combines the countries traditional building crafts with sophisticated technologies and materials. Associating a deep understanding and respect for native construction techniques with a more globalized outlook than many of his compatriots, Kengo Kumas work represents a significant generational shift in a country rich with contemporary architecture. From his iconic Glass House (1995) to the Nezu Museum in Tokyo, this is the complete record of Kengo Kumas built work, comprising twentyfour projects to date. Architecture historian Kenneth Frampton frames Kumas work in the context of post-war Japans flourishing architecture scene and influential figures and offers a perspective on the international acclaim of Kumas ideas and buildings. Projects are organized by the material themes that have come to define the architects output: Water and Foliage; Wood; Bamboo and Grass; and Stone and Ceramics. Kuma develops a personal and architectural reflection on each. Each building is presented through descriptive text, newly commissioned photographs and detailed drawings, this last revealing a privileged view of the refined architectonic vocabulary that characterizes Kumas buildings. With the close collaboration of Kuma, this major monograph fully documents a leading light of the global architecture scene, offering a rich insight into contemporary interpretations of Japans ancient building traditions. This beautifully produced book will be an inspiration to any designer who aims to create spaces for history and the future.
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This is a monograph devoted to one of the leading architects on the contemporary scene. Born at Bremerton in the state of Washington in 1947, Steven Holl studied architecture at the University of Washington at Seattle, and later on 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, notable for their respect for the cultural and historical environment they are set in, include the Makuhari residential complex in Japan, the St Ignatius chapel of 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. Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture of Columbia University, Holl has taught courses and lectures in other institutions around the United States and abroad. He has won many awards, including the Arnold W. Brunner prize for architecture in 1990 and the Alvar Aalto medal in 1998.
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• Introduction 1 The Formative Years 1887-1916 2 Towards a New Architecture 1917-1927 3 The City of Tomorrow 1910-1933 4 Decorative Art Today 1925-1937 5 A House, A Palace 1923-1929 6 World Architect: Czechoslovakia, Russia, Brazil, North Africa, North America, France and Switzerland 1928-1936 7 The Politics of the Unpolitical: Le Corbusier and Saint-Simonian Technocracy 1923-1947 8 From Intermediate Technology to Regional Urbanization 1929-1946 9 Towards a New Habitat 1922-1960 10 The Sacred and the Profane: Le Corbusier and Spiritual Form 1948-1965 11 Passage to India 1950-1965 12 Le Poeme de l'Angle Droit 13 Fin d'un Monde: The Last Works 1939-65 Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments for Illustrations, Index.
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Le Corbusier's ideas and works constitute the greatest single influence in the development of architecture in the 20th century. His passionately expressed philosophy has had an enormous effect on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes - his perennial drive towards new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unite d'Habitation at Marseilles; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Voisin of 1925; and his belief in a new technocratic order. Frampton draws on the latest research to set Le Corbusier's work against the background of his complex personality. The treatment is largely chronological, revealing the architect's development and his world-wide legacy. It discusses the full range of his achievement, from realized buildings and the new Indian city of Chandigarh, to the messianic modernist publications in which he espoused his fervent belief in architecture as an agent of progress.
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• Architecture as critical transformation - the work of Alvaro Siza, Kenneth Frampton-- homage to Alvaro Siza, Fernando Tavora-- works, projects and writings 1952-1999.
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A comprehensive study of the work of Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, this monograph covers his built works, projects and writings from the early 1950s to 1999. Born in 1933 in Matosinhos, Portugal, Siza is one of the world's most respected architects, and the recipient of many awards including the Alvar Aalto Foundation Gold Medal in 1988 and the US Pritzker Prize in 1992. Writings by Siza complement the monograph which is presented in chronological order.
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• Preface * Introduction by Kenneth Frampton *
• 1. WATER-GLASS: Water/Glass * River/Filter, Kitakami Canal Museum * Forest/Floor * Z58 * Glass/Wood *
• 2. WOOD-GRASS-BAMBOO: Noh Stage in the Forest * Great Bamboo Wall * Nakagawa-machi Bato Hiroshige Museum * Takayanagi Community Centre * Ginzan Onsen Bath House * Ginzan Onsen Fujiya Ryokan * Yusuhara Town Hall * Masanari Murai Memorial Museum of Art * GC Prostho Museum * Yusuhara Marche * Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum * Komatsu Seiren Fabric Laboratory fa-bo * Under One Roof project for the EPFL ArtLab * Japan House Sao Paulo *
• 3. STONE-EARTH-CERAMIC: Lotus House * Chokkura Plaza * Adobe museum for a Wooden Buddha Museum of Wisdom * Paper Snake * Ondo Civic Centre * Nezu Museum * Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud * China Academy of Art's Folk Art Museum * V&A Dundee.
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The quintessential Japanese architect of today, Kengo Kuma has forged a modern design language that artfully combines the country's traditional building crafts with sophisticated technologies and materials. From his iconic Glass House (1995) to Dundee's V&A (2018), this is the complete record of Kuma's built work, comprising thirty projects to date. Kenneth Frampton's revised and updated essay frames Kuma's work in the context of post-war Japan's flourishing architecture scene and influential figures, and recounts the international acclaim that Kuma's ideas and buildings have received. The heart of the book consists of projects presented in detail, accompanied by descriptive text and detailed drawings, and organized by the material themes that have come to define the architect's output. This new edition includes five new projects: Komatsu Seiren Fabric Laboratory fa-bo, Under One Roof project for the EPFL ArtLab, Japan House Sao Paulo, China Academy of Art's Folk Art Museum, and the V&A Dundee.
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• Foreword / Gene Kaufman
• Preface / Robert Siegel
• Introduction / Kenneth Frampton
• The Jewish Children's Museum
• United States Mission to the United Nations
• Middlebury College Library
• Tangeman University Center
• Administration and Admissions Building
• Allen County Public Library addition and renovation
• Akron-Summit County Public Library
• Burchfield Penny Museum
• Crocker Art Museum addition and renovation
• 6D Ranch Lake House
• Astor Place/Cooper Square
• Apartment 10 West
• Hamptons House
• W Hoboken
• Windsor Park
• 240 Park Avenue South
• Soho Mews
• W New York-Downtown
• Apartment 51/52 West
• Yale Arts Complex
• Walt Disney Work Bay Lake Tower
• Interfaith Center
• 400 Fifth Avenue
• Apartment 41/41
• Student Center
• Fifth Avenue Penthouse
• Three Trees Residence
• 523 Park Avenue South -- Institute for Biomedical Discovery
• Business and Economics Building
• Columbus Towers
• MOCA expansion
• Project chronology
• Awards
• Biographies
• Office staff
• Photography credits.

A sumptuous treatment of the architecture of modernist masters Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel, whose apartments, houses, and commercial buildings are gleaming beacons of clarity and refinement. Quintessential modernists, the principals of Gwathmey Siegel have championed an aesthetic that is at once refined and lyrical, and ultimately richly enticing. Clientele of the legendary firm includes a virtual who's who of the entertainment and business worlds, and with good reason, as vibrantly evidenced here. Rizzoli's third monograph on this distinguished New York firm presents the exquisite residential work for which the firm is so justifiably renowned--from private apartments and three residential skyscrapers in Manhattan to homes in Aspen, Colorado, a ranch in Texas, the new Setai Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York, and the new W Hotel in downtown Manhattan. Also shown, and representing a large part of the firm's creative output of the last decade, are cultural and institutional works, notably the U.S. mission to the United Nations.
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• Obra = Works: Universidad Iberoamericana
• Dívfisión de Ingeniería y Extensión Universitaria de la UIA
• Nuevo edificio académico de la Universidad de la UIA
• Nuevo edificio de estacionamiento de la Universidad Iberoamericana
• Ampliación biblioteca Universidad Iberoamericana
• Centro administrativo del govierno del estado de Tabasco
• Casa habitación Roqueta
• Condominio de apartmentos Tomás Moro
• Palacio de Justicia Federal
• Oficinas centrales de Hewlett-Packard de México
• Arcos Bosques Corporativo Edificio Oriente
• Arcos Bosques Corporativo Edificio Oriente
• Arcos Bowques Corporativo Edificio Norte A
• Arcos Bosques Corporativo Edificio Norte B
• Oficinas corporativas Grupo Atlas
• Arcos Bosques Corporativo Edificio Norte C
• Arcos Bosques Corporativo Edificio Norte D
• Arcos Bosques Corporativo Torre II
• Edificio de oficinas en condominio Centro de Ciudad
• Apartmentos Temístocles I
• Embajada de México en Guatemala
• Plaza Corporative Banamex Santa Fe
• Sucursal Bancaria Plaza Corporativa Banamex Santa Fe
• Autobanco Plaza Corporativa Banamex Santa Fe
• Auditorio Plaza Corporativa Banamex Santa Fe
• Nave industrial y edificio de oficinas Foamex de Cuautitlán
• Embajada de México en Alemania
• Oficinas y comercio Nuevo León
• Corporativo de oficinas
• Concesionaria de autos ACASA
• Desarrollo residencial Cumbres de Santa Fe
• Condominio de apartamentos Granito (proyecto)
• Condominio de apartamentos Basalto
• Nuevo recinto legislativo de la Cámara de Senadores (concurso nacional)
• Conjunto sede de la Secretaria de Salud (concurso)
• Centro de Artes de Zamora
• Condominio de apartamentos La Reserva
• Terminal 2 del Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México.

Of the new generation of architects practicing today in Britain under the rubric neo-minimalists, none has a higher critical reputation than David Chipperfield. As his fame and commissions have grown worldwide, Chipperfield now find himself in the circle of elite architects, including Tadao Ando and Peter Zumthor, whose reputations have been built on an architecture of spare sensuousness. Chipperfield s London-based practice has recently garnered a large number of prestigious projects, among them the reconstruction of the Neues Museum and master plan of the Museum Island in Berlin. His River and Rowing museum on the Thames has been hailed as a minor masterpiece, a match of modern manners and time-honored materials and won the Building of the Year Award from the Royal Fine Art Commission. The projects covered in this large-format, beautifully produced book include: airframe furniture; BFI Film Centre, London; the Figge Arts Center in Davenport, Illinois; the Royal Collections Museum in Madrid; the Toyota Auto building in Kyoto; and the San Michele Cemetery in Venice, among many others. Stunning photographs, and Chipperfield s preparatory sketches and countless drawings illustrate this exquisite work.
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• [1]. 1964/1984
• 2. 1985/1991
• 3. 1992/1999
• 4. 2000-2004
• 5. 2004-2009
• 6. 2009/2013
• 7. 2013-2017.

Documents recent work by one of the original New York Five architects.
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Richard Meier, Architect - Volume 4 comprehensively documents Meier's work since the publication of the previous volume in 1999. This extensively illustrated presentation, designed by renowned graphic artist Massimo Vignelli, vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's unique and celebrated vision. Twenty-seven residential, commercial, and civic projects in all are featured, including the two residential towers in New York overlooking the Hudson River; the Yale University History of Art and Arts Library in New Haven, Connecticut; and the Jubilee Church in Rome. The development and significance of Richard Meier's work is discussed in two essays by the distinguished architectural historians and critics Kenneth Frampton and Joseph Rykwert.
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The third in a series of Rizzoli monographs on Richard Meier, this volume comprehensively documents the numerous and varied works created since 1992 by one of America's most important architects and a winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture. This extensively illustrated presentation, designed by Massimo Vignelli, conveys the purity and power of Meier's celebrated work. Twenty-three projects in all are featured, including federal buildings and courthouses in Islip, New York, and Phoenix, Arizona; the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; the Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills; the Church of the Year 2000 in Rome; and the widely acclaimed Getty Center in Los Angeles. The development and significance of Richard Meier's work is discussed in two essays by the distinguished architectural historians and critics Kenneth Frampton and Joseph Rykwert. A postscript by Arata Isozaki, a biographical chronology, and a selected bibliography complete the monograph.
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Documents the complete work, both projected and realized, of one of the original New York Five architects, whose work has won National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects.
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Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 5 comprehensively documents Meier's work since 2004. This extensively illustrated presentation vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's vision. Thirty residential, commercial, and civic projects are featured, including the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome, the Burda Collection Museum and Arp Museum in Germany, San Jose City Hall, the Broad Art Center at UCLA, apartment towers in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and master plans for Newark, New Jersey, and Manhattan's East Side. Richard Meier received his architectural training at Cornell University and began his career in the early 1960s designing private residential projects whose elegant modernist style and white facades have become icons of modern architecture. Since that time, his international practice has included museums, courthouses, city halls, corporate headquarters, educational facilities, and public housing, in addition to private houses. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Pritzker Prize for Architecture and the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.
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The third volume in Rizzoli's bestselling monograph series on the eminent modernist presents 24 of his post -1985 masterworks, including the internationally acclaimed Getty Center arts and humanities complex in Los Angeles. Other projects documented in this significant survey include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and the Church of the Year 2000, to be built in Rome.
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