Figure/ground
Subtitle: a design conversation with Scott Johnson and Bill Fain
By: Morris Newman, editor ; introduction by Joseph Giovannini.
Contributors: Fain, William H., Jr.; Newman, Morris.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Balcony Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Johnson Fain Partners; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century; Architecture, Modern -- 21st century
Table of contents: title: Reconstructed modernists / Joseph Giovannini; title: The literal, the abstract, and a case for deep structure; title: Sustainability : nature and tradition; title: DNA of the city : improvisation and the urban grid; title: Control and consensus : is it architecture, urban design, or just art?; title: Centering, fragments, and the definition of place; title: Building for the public life.