Whereabouts
Subtitle: new architecture with local identities
By: Susanna Sirefman ; foreword by George Ranalli ; essay by Michael Sorkin.
Contributors: Sorkin, Michael, 1948-; City University of New York. City College. School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture.
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Architecture -- United States -- History -- 21st century -- Exhibitions; Regionalism in architecture -- United States -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: Whereabouts is a study of eight prominent young North American architecture firms. For the most part working within a vocabulary of late modernism, these firms -- two from each point of the compass -- have been strongly influenced by regional concerns. Shim/Sutcliffe of Toronto and Brian MacKay-Lyons of Nova Scotia stand for the North; from the South are the offices of Rick Joy and Wendell Burnette, both of Phoenix. SHoP, based in New York City, and Wesley Wei, based in Philadelphia, are the firms from the East; Kuth/Ranieri Architecture of San Francisco and Lubowicki/Lanier Architects of El Segundo, California, represent the West. Each design office presents two or three buildings and projects documented with striking photographs as well as beautifully delineated presentation drawings. Three essays illuminate themes of an architecture that is both local and global.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibiton held at the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at City College, City University of New York.