An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures without Architecture (The MIT Press)
Brand: The MIT Press
Color: White
Categories: Books, Arts & Photography, Architecture



Dimensions: 8.56 x 2.76 x 11.31 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0262038676
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262038676
Publisher: The MIT Press
Print length: 1256 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2019
subtitle: Hardcover – January 8, 2019
author: Michael Meredith Visit Amazon's Hilary Sample Page search results Hilary Sample MOS
review: Editorial Reviews Review A wave of excitement may rush over the reader while surveying the 1000+ scale figures in the book's collection.— ARCHINECT — Review Throughout history, across radically different movements in Western culture, the human figure appears and reappears, in multiple guises, to remind us, the observers, of architectural purpose and of our mutual position in the world.…This encyclopedia has enlarged or reduced all figures to the same approximate scale. Meredith, Sample, and MOS have gathered them here in an unprecedented, intoxicating way, like being at a fabulous party. ― From the afterword by Raymund Ryan About the Author Michael Meredith is a Principal at MOS, an internationally recognized architectural practice based in New York. His writing has appeared in Artforum , LOG , Perspecta, Harvard Design Magazine , and other publications. Hilary Sample is a Principal at MOS, Associate Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning, and Preservation, and author of Maintenance Architecture (MIT Press). MOS, cofounded by Meredith and Sample in 2003, was the recipient of the 2015 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award in Architecture, the 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, and the 2008 Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices Award. Read more