As a viewer wanders through the Gardens of Versailles, she perceives a continually unfolding spectacle: each element relating to the next in a sophisticated way and impacted by the chosen path, time of day, and season. Creating this series of drawings combined Rosner's interests in space, color, form, line, and landscape. The drawings are speculations about an existing place and its potential for abstraction.

Centerline 12: Spatial Speculations, Drawing from the Gardens of Versailles

Mirka Benes

Billie Tsien

Tod Williams

Joyce Rosner

Perry Kulper

Center for American Architecture and Design

We see architecture as an act of profound optimism. Its foundation lies in believing that it is possible to make places on the earth that can give a sense of grace to life—and in believing that it matters. —Tod Williams and Billie Tsien The New York City studio of Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates has built a practice based on a search for certain qualities: an architecture of serenity, a balance of logic and intuition, the primacy of perception over theory, the connection of a building to its site, the strength of restraint, and the importance of the space "between." Work Life: Tod Williams Billie Tsien, the first monograph published on the architects' work, presents photographic portfolios of ten recent works, including the masterful "scientific monastery" of the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California; the sculptural forms of the Phoenix Art Museum; the complex of seven buildings that make up New College at the University of Virginia; and two buildings at the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York. Two sections of the book are devoted to early and in-progress work. The final essay, "Who We Are," is a personal exploration of not only the architecture but also the architects.

Work Life

Arts & Photography

Michael Moran

Architecture

The Monacelli Press

A study of the 1997 architectural renovation of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington, by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, this book includes color and black and white photographs, architectural renderings, and essays. With an introduction by Rick Sundberg and Foreword by Billie Tsien, The Frye Art Museum is published in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Museum's reopening.

The Frye Art Museum: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects

Rick Sundberg

Documentary Media

Coop Himmelblau Busan Cinema CenterﾑBusan International Film Festival Busan, South Korea Tod Williams Billie Tsien Barnes Foundation - New Philadelphia Campus Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Renzo Piano Building Workshop Ronchamp Gatehouse and Monastery Ronchamp, Haute Saone, France Steven Holl Glasgow School of Art Glasgow, U.K. Frank O. Gehry Hong Kong Residential Hong Kong, China Dellugan Meissl Associated Architects Eye Film Institute Amsterdam, The Netherlands Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 London, U.K. Morphosis Morphosis Los Angeles Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Morphosis Eni Exploration & Production Management Center San Donato Milanese, Italy Kengo Kuma Xinjin Zhi Museum Xinjin, Chengdu, China

GA Document 122

Steven Holl

Renzo Piano

ADA Editors

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