Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
Subtitle: Opportunistic Architecture
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Published: August 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781568987101
Subjects: Individual Architectural Firms; Architecture; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Individual Architect; Mystery & Detective - General; Architecture / Individual Architect; 21st century; Architecture, Modern; Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis; Themes, motives
Description: Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis presents a diverse selection of built and speculative projects ranging from small installations to larger institutional buildings. Their celebrated restaurant projects including a caf with a wall made by the architects from 479 cast-plaster coffee cup lids present innovative solutions to the challenges of working with existing space. Their large institutional buildings such as Bornhuetter Hall for Wooster College imaginatively engage the particulars of program, budget, client needs, and code. Their designs for a residence in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, morph from a standard suburban elevation on the street front to a modern pavilion at the back. Also included are a selection of the firm's speculative projects addressing issues of urbanism and suburbanism. Built projects are accompanied by thought-provoking texts, beautiful drawings, and photographs. An appendix distills their design philosophy into five tactics, a readymade code for students and practitioners looking for design ideas for the real world. Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis will enlighten and inspire architects to create more useful, attractive, and interesting forms.