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Architecture Monographs
Clyfford Still Museum: Allied Works
Architecture
hATJe CAnTz
Qualities of Duration: The Architecture of
Phillip Smith & Douglas Thompson
dAMIAnI/Gordon de vrIes sTudIo
Text by brad Cloepfil, robert McCarter, dean sobel, et al.
the Clyfford Still museum in Denver was created as a home for the artistic vision of american
painter Clyfford Still (1904–1980), who helped spearhead the abstract expressionist movement.
though acknowledged as one of the country’s most significant twentieth-century artists, his work
has long been difficult to access, and much of it has never been publicly exhibited. opening its
doors to the public in november 2011, the two-story museum—one of the most comprehensive single-artist
museums in the world—houses the vast majority of Still’s creative output: 2,400 paintings,
drawings, prints and sculptures spanning over 60 years. Designed by the leading architectural practice
allied Works and its founder, Brad Cloepfil, the museum draws inspiration from the work of
Still and from its monumental surroundings: an intersection of prairie and mountains within an
urban district of major cultural buildings, vacant lots, historic housing and new development. the
building looks to the earth as a source of silence and evocation of the elemental forces that the
artist explored in his painting. this publication presents the initial conception of the museum to its
ultimate realization as what The New Republic has declared to be “everything a museum goer could
hope for.” a rich collection of stories, artifacts, documents and conversations trace the evolution
of the building and allied Works’ unique creative process, with new essays and photographs that
examine its particular significance within contemporary architectural discourse.
978-3-7757-3332-8
Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 60 color.
U.S. $45.00 CDn $45.00
november/architecture & Urban Studies
Text by Alastair Gordon.
the branch of a sycamore grows through the opening of a wall in a manhattan studio. a poolhouse
on Long Island becomes a sod-roofed teahouse. an eighteenth-century farmhouse in
pennsylvania expands to echo the path of a meandering stream. Such are the inventive and inspired
designs of phillip Smith and Douglas thompson, whose work stands out as an oasis of
calm in an age of hyperspeed and information smog. Since they met in 1966, Smith and thompson
have sought out a “softer” alternative to the legacy of “heroic modernism,” a quest for
spatial quietude guided more by instinct and gradual accretion than enforced concept and ideology.
taking Bernard rudofsky’s emphasis on forgotten vernacular buildings and “architecture
without architects” as the underlying theme in their work, Smith and thompson’s sources of
inspiration have varied widely over the years, from early european modernism to the barns
and fishermen’s cottages of nantucket, to the monasteries of tibet, the hill towns of Italy and
the stilted kampongs of malaysia. Qualities of Duration is the first book to chronicle their firm’s
complete body of work, detailing its numerous residential, commercial, corporate and institutional
projects through 350 illustrations and a text by architectural historian alastair gordon.
978-88-6208-231-0
Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 221 pgs / illustrated throughout.
U.S. $50.00 CDn $50.00
September/architecture & Urban Studies
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Architecture
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Refract House
CALIfornIA CoLLeGe of The ArTs
ArChITeCTure sTudIo serIes
edited by Ila berman, nataly Gattegno.
Introduction by Ila berman.
Refract House explores the evolution
of California College of the arts’ solarpowered
house that competed in the
2009 U.S. Department of energy Solar
Decathlon. the competition brief was
to design, build and operate a maximally
energy-efficient, attractive and
comfortable solar-powered house.
every detail was considered by the
CCa faculty and student team, from
the landscaping, water recycling system
and solar collection arrays to the
furniture and plateware. CCa’s house
was awarded first place in architecture
and communications, second in engineering,
and third overall. this book
reframes the team’s efforts within contemporary
architectural practice. It is
divided into four parts, addressing: the
conceptual trajectories underlying the
project, the different design strategies
that were explored, the integration of
technological systems and the question
of carbon-neutral design, and the
issues surrounding material prefabrication.
It also discusses the implications
of the project in terms of
architectural education today.
978-0-9825033-2-4
Hbk, 5.75 x 8 in. / 141 pgs /
illustrated throughout.
U.S. $18.95 CDn $18.95
october/architecture & Urban Studies/
Sustainability
MASS Design
Group:
Empowering
Architecture
The Butaro Hospital, Rwanda
MAss
edited by Michael Murphy, Alan
ricks, et al. Introduction by dr. Paul
farmer. Text by Michael Murphy, Alan
ricks. Photographs by Iwan baan.
Empowering Architecture is the maSS
Design group’s first publication.
maSS partners with governments and
various organizations to apply design
and architectural thinking to social justice
goals and produce equitable infrastructure
that assists its partners in
breaking the cycles of structural violence
and poverty. this volume is a
case study on the recently completed
Butaro Hospital in rwanda, which
sought to employ a community and reduce
the in-hospital-transmission of
disease. the book highlights strategies
to improve health and strengthen communities
through design. Featuring an
introduction by Dr. paul Farmer, the
founder of partners in Health and a
leader in global health delivery, and a
sprawl of breathtaking images by
renowned architectural photographer
Iwan Baan, Empowering Architecture is
a great example of how the intersection
between health and design can
create dignified spaces that heal.
978-0-615-53415-2
pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 172 pgs / 122 color.
U.S. $35.00 CDn $35.00
July/architecture & Urban
Studies/african art & Culture
Josep Lluís Mateo:
On Building
Matter and Form
edICIones PoLIGrAfA
Text by Philip ursprung, Agustí obiol,
dominique boudet. Interview by
fredy Massad, Alicia Guerrero.
Josep Lluís mateo (born 1949) is one
of Spain’s—and europe’s—most prolific
and visible architects, as energetic as a
teacher and lecturer as he is an architect.
mateo has designed corporate
headquarters, housing units, office
blocks and hotels throughout Western
europe, and has also renovated urban
centers in gerona (Spain) and Castelo
Branco (portugal). this volume looks
back at nearly 30 years of mateo’s built
structures, as portrayed by the architectural
photographer adrià goula. as
well as buildings from the 80s and 90s,
it also looks at his most important projects
of the past few years, from the
Banc Sabadell Headquarters renovation
(2004) and the Factory office
building in Boulogne-Billancourt,
France (2010) to the pggm Headquarters
in Zeist, Holland (2011) and the
Catalonian Film theater in Barcelona
(2011). Interspersed among goula’s
photographs are mateo’s observations
and musings on architecture.
978-84-343-1312-5
Hbk, 12.25 x 9.5 in. / 184 pgs / 118 color.
U.S. $60.00 CDn $60.00
august/architecture & Urban
Studies
ArChITeCTure & desIGn hIGhLIGhTs
Harpa
Henning Larsen Architects &
Batteriid Architects in Collaboration
with Olafur Eliasson
hATJe CAnTz
Conceived by the Danish architectural
offices of Henning Larsen, Harpa is a
new concert hall located at the old
harbor of reykjavik. the concert hall
and conference center are home to the
national symphony orchestra and the
opera, and stand as a symbol of hope,
having been successfully completed
in spite of the country’s debilitating
financial crisis. the spectacular entry
façade, made of more than 1,000
polygonal glass units modeled after
the island’s basalt pillars, was created
in collaboration with the artist olafur
eliasson. the glass breaks up the light
like a kaleidoscope, so that the broad
waters of the harbor, the open sky
and the hilly environs are reflected in
splendid colors. this publication presents
the building from its initial design
in 2005 to its completion in may 2011,
and demonstrates how nature can help
inspire architecture to dematerialize.
978-3-7757-3341-0
pbk, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 160 pgs / 80 color.
U.S. $60.00 CDn $60.00
october/architecture & Urban Studies
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