Installations By Architects: Experiments in Building and Design
"I've been poring through Installations by Architects: Experiments in Building and Design, to be published by Princeton Architectural Press this October. It's a remarkable compendium of projects by architects including Diller + Scofidio, Allan Wexler, Anderson Anderson (with Cameron Schoepp) and others. My favorites tend to be sculptural interventions in public space."   --Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ideas"Installations by Architectsby Nova Scotia-based Bonnemaison and Maryland-based Eisenbach collects over forty projects by primarily North American architects. Many familiar names can be found, such as John Hedjuk, Diller + Scofidio, Kennedy & Violich, but most of them are not so familiar. (I can't remember the last time I learned about so many designers not known to me in a collection of contemporary architecture!) The projects are split into five thematic sections (Tectonics, Body, Nature, Memory, Public Space) that follow the broad ideas architects have tackled over the last decade or two. Unconventionally each chapter separates the text descriptions from the photo documentation, allowing the book to be read in a number of ways, depending on how much the reader wants to delve into the subject of installations by architects."  --Archidose"A survey featuring 50 of the most significant projects from the past 25 years by today's most exciting architects, including Anderson Anderson, Philip Beesley, Diller + Scofidio, John Hejduk, Dan Hoffman, and Kuth/Ranieri Architects. The projects, grouped in critical areas of discussion under the themes of tectonics, body, nature, memory, and public space, are supplemented by interviews with the project architects and discussions by critics and theorists situated within a larger intellectual context, proving that installations will continue to play a critical role in the practice of architecture."  --Forecast Public Art"Installation by Architects: Experiments in Buildings and Designsputs the theories of ecological design to the test. These, as the name suggests, are experiments in design, although not always practical, each challenges the viewers' experience and perception of the environment.Installationsapproaches design as an art form that invites the public to touch, enter into, and experience the work, whether it is in a gallery, on a city street, or in the middle of a field. Here, actual installations explore the ecology of design and its effect upon environments and those who move through the environment. Each installation recognizes that its design is experiential, both in the sense of the planning that goes into it, and in the specific end product.Installationsacknowledges that no matter how much an architect, or for that matter, anyone, rationalizes his design, ultimately it is the ever-evolving experiential nature of the environment that embeds the design into the environment as an integral part, or makes it stand out like a sore thumb."  --Urban Paradoxes