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Snøhetta: Collective Intuition

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Snøhetta: Collective Intuition

The first in-depth monograph on one of the most important contemporary architecture practices working today.

With offices in Oslo, Innsbruck, San Francisco, and New York, and projects all over the world, Snøhetta’s architecture, landscape, interior, and branding design projects are created across political boundaries, at all scales, and are fundamentally concerned with the unique interactions between people and places.

Through stunning imagery and evocative narrative text, this book showcases 24 exceptional projects – including the 9/11 Memorial & Museum Pavilion and the Oslo Opera House – which, together, illustrate Snøhetta’s boundary-pushing and highly collaborative approach to design.

The book is organized into three chapters: Integration of Disciplines, Political Space, and Generosity and Collective Ownership. The books is the perfect expression of the firm’s values and how it has evolved over its 30-year history. Conversations with Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Gaute Brochmann lend depth and focus. An illustrated chronology and detailed architectural drawings provide deeper insight.

Format: Hardback
Size: 270 x 205 mm (10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in)
Pages: 256 pp
Illustrations: 300 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714877174

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Lautner A-Z: An Exploration of the Complete Built Work

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Lautner A-Z: An Exploration of the Complete Built Work
Jan-Richard Kikkert & Tycho Saariste

The American architect John Lautner (1911-1994) was well ahead of his time. His original, unconventional and very versatile oeuvre was never repetitive. His concern for the dreams and desires of his clients, his sensitivity to the location if his buildings and his interest in the latest technical developments were constants in his work. Lautner blurred the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces, between nature and architecture.

Lautner’s oeuvre spans more than half a century, from his first independent commission in 1939 until his death in 1994. In this time period he carried out 144 if his designs, 103 of which are still standing. Most of them are located in and around Los Angeles. Lautner ‘s work developed greatly throughout the years: he started off close to his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright and ended with an uninhibited, unique and personal architectural style.

This book provides an unprecedented treasury of information about all of Lautner’s built works. It is an odyssey, the story of two architects on a mission: Jan-Richard Kikkert and Tycho Saariste located, visited and described all the surviving buildings. This began with finding the correct addresses though Google Earth and ended with studying dusty rolls of drawings in owners’ attics. Each house visit is described separately, with a focus on striking architectonic elements, the locations and the clients. Kikkert and Saariste also conducted extensive (archival) research on buildings that no longer exist and designs that were never built. The book is richly illustrated, often with images made specifically for this book.

Publisher: Artez Press
Published: 2018
Edition: paperback
Size: 17 x 24 cm
Pages: 386
Illustration: ca. 500 b&w and colour images
ISBN: 9789491444432

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Private House, Stoke Newington, London by Al-Jawad Pike

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Private house, Stoke Newington, London
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This project establishes a single storey L-shaped volume that infills the narrow passage to the side of the rear outrigger part of the house and integrates the existing ground floor to create a new large kitchen and dining area overlooking the garden. A large skylight brings top light into the centre of the house and a large timber framed sliding door maximises openness to the garden.

Photography: Ståle Eriksen

Al-Jawad Pike is an award-winning London-based architectural studio founded in 2014 by Jessam Al-Jawad and Dean Pike.

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