An installation project by Lars Lerup and Sohela Farokhi, room takes the typical notions of a room and stretches them towards new possibilities. Walls do not confine the room, but instead images of the city, the landscape, of industry and technology-is defined by frontiers of the imagination. The space within is rendered mobile and fluid, an "urban interior" further enhanced by "household vehicles" that replace static furniture. The installation at the Menil Collection in Houston instigated a conscious dialogue between society and technology and how the two are becoming securely intertwined within our sense of reality and imagination. Lerup, trained as an architect and engineer, is a professor and dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University, and Farokhi, an artist and painter, is the current resident artist. A unique publication that visually bridges the architectural and design world to the conceptual art world.

Room

Arts & Photography

Lerup, Lars

Farokhi, Sohela

Architecture

William K Stout Pub

This monograph examines 20 of Turnbull's residential projects at Sea Ranch, throughout California, and across the country. The striking b&amp;w photographs of the buildings convey his continued investigation into the vernacular vocabulary of everyday architecture and his faithfulness to the landscape throughout his 35-year career. The volume also features essays by Donlyn Lyndon (architecture, U. of California), Mitchell Schwarzer (architectural history and theory, California College of Arts and Crafts), and Mary Griffin, Turnbull's wife and architectural partner for the last 12 years of his life. Oversize: 10x13

William Turnbull, Jr.: Buildings in the Landscape

Politics & Social Sciences

Frampton, Kenneth

Ngo, Dung

Stout, William

Turnbull, William

Lyndon, Donlyn

Gregory, Daniel

Wagner, Martin

Social Sciences

Civilizing Terrains reproduces the sketchbook of William Rees Morrish, Director of the Design Center for American Urban Landscape at the University of Minnesota. Originally published in an elegant oversized format, this portable reprint contains Morrish's collection of historical archetypes of the American landscape, supplemented with contemporary architectural models, urban spatial patterns, building and site vocabularies and personal philosophical conjecture. Morrish is one of our major thinkers in the field of contemporary American urbanism.

Civilizing Terrains: Mountains, Mounds and Mesas

Morrish, William R.

The Los Angeles architect Rudolph Schindler is regarded today as one of the central figures of the Modern movement. Trained in Vienna under Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, Schindler then migrated to Los Angeles under the apprenticeship of Frank Lloyd Wright. Surrounded by a clientele of progressive thinkers in the emerging intellectual culture of Hollywood, Schindler created a radical and intensely personal architectural conception, resulting in some of the seminal works of the twentieth century. Gebhard's Schindler, first issued in 1971, is the only full-length account of Schindler's prolific yet unfulfilled career. The new edition includes 16 full-color illustrations of Schindler's renderings which were not included in the original. Charles Moore said, "David Gebhard's book about Rudolph Schindler was, for me, the most moving story of an architect that I have read since I was astonished at an early age by Frank Lloyd Wright's autobiography." Includes a preface by Henry-Russell Hitchcock.

Rudolph Schindler

Gebhard, David

The Los Angeles architect Rudolph Schindler is regarded today as one of the central figures of the Modern movement. Trained in Vienna under Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, Schindler then migrated to Los Angeles under the apprenticeship of Frank Lloyd Wright. Surrounded by a clientele of progressive thinkers in the emerging intellectual culture of Hollywood, Schindler created a radical and intensely personal architectural conception, resulting in some of the seminal works of the twentieth century. Gebhard's Schindler, first issued in 1971, is the only full-length account of Schindler's prolific yet unfulfilled career. The new edition includes 16 full-color illustrations of Schindler's renderings which were not included in the original. Charles Moore said, "David Gebhard's book about Rudolph Schindler was, for me, the most moving story of an architect that I have read since I was astonished at an early age by Frank Lloyd Wright's autobiography." Includes a preface by Henry-Russell Hitchcock.

Schindler

Sketches, full drawings, floor plans, black-and-white photographs, explanatory text, and technical notes document recent designs by the California-based architect. They include several private residences, a sculpture studio, artist suites, and a cemetery building. An introduction and afterword by others discuss Jennings' work. No index or bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

10/10: Jim Jennings Architecture : Ten Projects, Ten Years

James Jennings

This beautifully illustrated volume contains 18 essays that offer an important precedent for design professionals through its collective identification of values, principles, and concepts of hierarchy, order, and appropriate action in various real-world situations. It shows how the four architects are squarely within the modern tradition that views architecture not as a style to be catalogued or copied, but as a discipline that must be practiced through its engagement with reality in order to be grounded, transformed, and reborn within a given context. Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Constructed Reality,Tanner, Leddy, Maytum, Stacy Architects

McCarter, Robert

This book grew out of Charles Salter's experience teaching at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design as well as from his acoustical consulting firm's projects over the last 20 years. Coverage includes methods of sound isolation in buildings; cost-benefit analysis of diverse acoustical materials and designs; technologies for noise abatement; environmental acoustics, including noise ordinances and land planning issues; and legal issues. Case studies illustrate the acoustic design issues of a wide range of spaces Salter's firm worked on--from Camp Snoopy, an Airtouch boardroom, and condominium complexes in Chicago and San Francisco, to the Newport Beach Public Library, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Off Planet (formerly Sega Music Group Studio), and Mudd's restaurant in San Ramon, CA. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Acoustics - Architecture, Engineering, the Environment

Science & Math

Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc.

Physics

This large-size volume documents 20 of William Turnbull's most well-known structures, ranging in scope from the Sea Ranch Condominium I (1965), designed by Turnbull in collaboration with Charles Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, and Richard Whitaker (WLTW), to his own house in Napa Valley, CA (1991). 
Turnbull buildings' create a dialog with the landscape that resonates in the structural character of his works and reflects the integral nature of his design approach. In contrast to the hegemony of materials and style of Modernism's international style, Turnbull flourished with an altogether different emphasis of site specificity. Donlyn Lyndon writes that Turnbull's "buildings are conceived in their site. As they grew in his mind and emerged from his hand they were stroked and disciplined by the acts of construction, tutored in the accommodation of human action, and set against insistent measures of excellence." Featured essays by Mitchell Schwarzer, Associate Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley; Mary Griffin, principal of Turnbull Griffin Haesloop; and William Stout. Dimension: 10 x 13 inches, Over 300 Duotone Images and Illustrations.

William Turnbull, Jr.: Buildings in the Landscape (Architectural Monograph (San Francisco, Calif.), 3.)

Of his Museum of Jurassic Technology, David Wilson once said, "Part of the assigned task is to reintegrate people with wonder". And wonder museum visitors do, at exhibits like a woman's horn, a bat frozen in a slab of lead, and microminiature sculpture framed in the eye of a needle. Asked to redesign the Los Angeles museum's façade to meet structural requirements, Southern California architects Robert Mangurian and Mary Ann Ray quickly got involved in more than your typical seismic upgrade. Stunning full-color drawings show 40 outlandish potential facades for the MJT. Featuring essays by Pat Morton, Lars Lerup and Ralph Rugoff. Dimension: 7 x 12 inches, 76 color drawings and reproductions.

Wrapper: 40 Possible City Surfaces for the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Ray, Mary-Ann

Rugoff, Ralph

Ray, Robert

Ray, Mangurian

Mangurian, Robert

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