On October 3, 2003, the Liberty Cell Center, the new home of the Liberty Bell, was opened to the public. The building, designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, is one of the highlights of Philadelphia's reconfigured Independence Mall. This book offers a close look at the building. It presents an extensive set of reproductions and photographs, including records of the design and building process, that thoroughly document the building and its surroundings. The book also features essays that flesh out the building's rich context and its historical background. They include insiders' accounts of the design process as well as critical maps of the constellation of forces that come into play in shaping a building of this significance.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson: Liberty Bell Center

History

Oscar Riera Ojeda

Laurie Olin

Rodolphe El-Khoury

Bernard Cywinski

Richard Sommer

Americas

ORO Editions

Located in New York City since 1972, Peter L. Gluck and Partners is known for the integrity of their designs and sensitivity to the relationship between architectural form and context. Rather than specializing in a particular building type or specific architectural style, the firm provides appropriate responses to often difficult and conflicting requirements. The firm has designed buildings throughout the United States, ranging from houses, schools, religious buildings and community centers to hotels, corporate interiors, university buildings, and historic restorations. Many projects have won national and international design awards. This extensive overview of the firm's practice includes architectural drawings, digital and physical models, and photographs of both finished and in-progress projects.

The Modern Impulse

Arts & Photography

Architecture

The Farrar residence is the stunning year-round home of a fascinating Park City, Utah, couple. Award-winning architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has created a tour-de-force in stone, concrete, wood and steel. The line between inside and outside disappears amid a confluence of shifting perspectives. Dramatic elements enliven the whole, from expansive living spaces that open to breathtaking views of the Wasatch Range, to a spellbinding glass swimming pool that cantilevers over a rushing mountain stream. These architects have established a reputation for projects that respect the natural environment while responding to the unique needs of client, site and program. The firm has received more than 340 design awards, including the prestigious Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects. World-renowned architectural photographer Nic Lehoux has documented the house with a wealth of lavish color and black-and-white photographs. The book also includes conceptual sketches, presentation drawings and construction documents.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson: Farrar

Winner of the 2004 AIA Firm of the Year Award, Lake/Flato has been designing practical buildings since 1984. These are buildings whose ingenuity and craftsmanship merge tradition with new technologies. Their work seeks a modern vernacular yet builds upon the traditions of regional architecture by adapting local materials and craft to build well-sited structures that recognize the need for comfort and a strong connection to nature.
As William Turnbull wrote in his foreword for Lake/FlatoÆs 1996 monograph, "nothing sensual or exotic, no visual fireworks of fashion, just architecture that intrigues the mind, delights the soul, and refreshes the eye with its elegant detail and simplicity".

Lake/Flato (Contemporary World Architects)

Rockport Pub

Moore, Ruble, and Yudell: Houses and Housing

Rockport Publishers

Materials is the first book in the Architecture in Detail series, which examines a wide spectrum of architectural palettes from traditional products used innovatively to the testing of newer substances and from elegant applications of inelegant materials to experimentation with unconventional construction practices. Each photograph demonstrates the capacity of details to be mesmerizing expressions of quality and craft through techniques of pattern, texture, color, and surface. Together, all these characteristics ingeniously contribute to the vitality of the architecture surrounding them.

Architecture In Detail: Materials

Mark Pasnik

Photography by Paul Warchol

Elements is the second volume in the Architecture in Detail series, which presents a collection of new projects in which the designerÆs ideas are evident in the minor moments of space, such as the curve of a handrail, the profile of a cabinet, the form and texture of a wall. The images feature staircases to doors and windows, all used to shape a broad variety of residential, commercial, and institutional environments. The details often challenge our perceptions of elemental form, in some cases creating fanciful hybrids of many elements in one. All are records of the enormous conceptual presence a detail can hold as well as its power to infuse architecture with effects of poetry, delicacy, tension, and surprise.

Architecture In Detail: Elements

This collection of houses illustrates a splendid diversity of stylistic approaches and a range of creative possibilities. An obvious love of the traditions of architecture is evident in each one no matter what the historical precedent or geographical location. The common language is decidedly Classical, yet American architect Ken Tate's personal interpretation and intellectual rigors allow each building to stand apart as an individual work of art beautiful, livable and utterly engaging.

Ken Tate Architect, Vol. 1: Selected Houses (New Classicists)

Ken Tate

Images Publishing

Hardcover in clamshell box:Architecture with and without Le Corbusier documents two architectural masterpieces: the Church at Firminy and The Miller House. The church is a late work by Le Corbusier that was left unfinished for 40 years. José Oubrerie, a protégé of the great master who had worked on the project from its inception, completed and built the canonical work, adapting it to current needs and standards while respecting the integrity of the original design. The Miller House, Oubrerie's own late masterpiece from the 90s, is a landmark in Lexington where the architect devotes his mature years to academic leadership at the University of Kentucky. It is firmly on its way to securing a permanent place in the modernist canon. The thorough documentation of the two buildings with an extensive collection of previously unpublished drawings, documents and photographs builds a precise and vivid testimony of Oubrerie's unique architectural trajectory with Le Corbusier's formidable legacy as a formative and creative influence. The two seminal works, presented side by side with commentary by George Renalli and Kenneth Frampton yield insight into the evolution and current resonance of modernist architecture in a story that spans two worlds and two distinguished careers.

Architecture With and Without Le Corbusier: Jose Oubrerie Architecte

KENNETH FRAMPTON

George Ranalli

Jose Oubrerie

Luis Burriel Bielza

Loft Pubns

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