Some pictures from Andrea Cochran's design talk at the Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco... · 07/02/2009
Editorial Reviews for Andrea Cochran : Landscapes
Dwell says:
“Just like modern homes often bring the outside in, San Francisco landscape architect Andrea Cochran’s exterior designs extend the modern aesthetic from indoors to the outdoors. A new book by Mary Myers celebrates Cochran’s distinct talent.
Published by Princeton Architectural Press, Andrea Cochran: Landscapes is not only a coffee table-ready book filled with stunning photography, it’s also an incredible resource for DIYers looking to beautify their own backyards.
“ — Miyoko Ohtake,(March 6, 2009)
The New York Times says:
“Some landscape architects delight in loading their projects with hidden symbolism, creating gardens that can feel a bit like inscrutable films requiring lots of explanation. Andrea Cochran aims for something more comprehensible. “There is no narrative and no irony in my work,” said Ms. Cohran, who added that she tries to “pare things down till they verge on the edge of emptiness.”
Her efforts are documented in “Andrea Cochran: Landscapes” (Princeton Architectural Press, $50), an elegant monograph by Mary Myers. With a small trim size (just over 8 by 10 inches) and no dust jacket, it is as understated as projects like the subtly graphic San Francisco Children’s Garden, below, which Ms. Cochran designed as a showcase garden. Like her landscapes, the book has a quiet classicism that makes it a valuable addition to a gardener’s collection.” — Stephen Orr,(April 23, 2009)
Today (7/1) is the deadline for the PAMPHLET ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION · 07/01/2009
Juried competition to be sponsored by Pamphlet Architecture
Founded in 1977 as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing, Pamphlet Architecture provides a forum for architects and writers to present their ideas, theories and designs in modest, affordable booklets. Pamphlet Architecture helped launch the careers of architects from Steven Holl and Lebbeus Woods to Zaha Hadid, and has had influence far exceeding the ad-hoc nature of these humble books.
Competition Theme:
Investigations in Infrastructure
At a time of new government leadership committed to investing in the United States’ infrastructure, architects, engineers, and artists should propose new directions for transportation, energy, and agriculture at a continental scale. In this spirit, no visionary dimension is too large, no inventive proposal too ambitious to consider. Projects designed for countries other than the United States should be generalized enough to be applicable.
The winner will receive a prize of $2,500 and the opportunity to have their manuscript published by Princeton Architectural Press as Pamphlet Architecture 30. The registration fee is $25 for students and $50 for professionals.
Applicants can register at pamphletarchitecture.org. The winner will be announced in September 2009.
Submission Guidelines:
The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2009.
Please register at pamphletarchitecture.org before submitting your project.
Please include an abstract (250 words) of your submission.
Submissions must be submitted on 8 ½ x 11 inch paper and may not exceed 16 pages in length.
Submissions should be anonymous. Please include a separate sheet with your name, address, and email, in the form of your Paypal registration receipt. If you register as a student, please staple a photocopy of your valid student ID to this sheet.
Applicants cannot have published previously most or all of their submission in book form.
If you wish your submission to be returned to you, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
Submissions may be sent to:
Competition
Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd.
37 E. 7th St.
New York, NY 10003 USA
Mike Perry Giant Zine show on July 3rd in Portland, OR! · 06/30/2009
Mike Perry, creator of the books HAND JOB and OVER&OVER, has made a Giant Zine show for Grass Hut’s July extravaganza. All the art hanging on the gallery walls was also printed and bound into Giant Zines measuring 19 X 25 inches big.
July 3rd
6-10pm.
Grass Hut
811 E Burnside in Portland, OR.
BOTH MIKE PERRY BOOKS AVAILABLE NOW!
Congratulations O’Donnell + Tuomey! · 06/30/2009
Dublin-based O’Donnell + Tuomey has beaten the likes of David Chipperfield and Danes 3XN to win the RIBA-run competition for the London School of Economics’ (LSE) new £21.5 million students’ center. The firm was also among the winners at this year’s RIAI’s Irish Architecture Awards in the category of Best Housing (More than one unit): Timberyard Social Housing for the Dublin City Council.
O’Donnell + Tuomey : Selected Works by Sheila O’Donnell , John Tuomey, the first monograph on the firm, presents fifteen of their institutional and residential projects in an arresting collection of color photography, plans, and drawings. The book includes the controversial Irish Pavilion at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ranelagh Multidenominational School, the Irish Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Biennale, and their recent Glucksman Gallery at the University College Cork, which was one of six buildings shortlisted for the 2005 Stirling Prize.
Abitare calls ARTIFICIAL LIGHT "beautifully written and illustrated with stunning photographs..." · 06/30/2009
Review by Reto Geiser, architect and curator, Standpunkte, Basel.
Artificial Light: A Narrative Inquiry into the Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and other Architectural Fictions
By Keith Mitnick
Princeton Architectural Press, New York 2008.
“Beautifully written and illustrated with stunning photographs, Keith Mitnick’s debut feature “Artificial Light” successfully weaves together the narratives of architectural criticism and great storytelling. Offering new perspectives on architecture through the lens of autobiographical notes that seem to fathom the fine distinction between authenticity and artificiality, this little book is a fresh take on critical theory, addressing issues of experience, atmosphere, myth, abstraction, or immediacy, without falling into ideological traps.”
Louis I. Kahn's Trenton Jewish Community Center saved! · 06/29/2009
Via Samuel Gruber’s Jewish Art & Monuments blog:
According to Susan Solomon, whose book Louis I. Kahn’s Trenton Jewish Community Center was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2000:
Maris Wieczorek, Senior Planner of Mercer County (NJ) reports that renovation of the Trenton Bath House (Louis I. Kahn, 1955) and the adjoining Day Camp ( Kahn, 1957) will begin after Labor Day. Funding, which comes from a $750,000 grant from the New Jersey Historic Trust (from the Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund), will be matched (1:1) by Mercer County which bought the property in 2007. The county made the original purchase by innovative use of open space monies. Mercer County now leases the site to Ewing Township which operates the Bath House (changing rooms) and swimming pool as part of its senior and community center.
The current plans include demolition of the snack bar (an eyesore that was attached to the Bath House after Kahn had left the project); erection of a new snack facility close to the place where Kahn designated one in a 1957 plan; improved picnic area; symbolic recreation of the pebble garden in the atrium; new doors and fencing; ADA accessibility. The restoration of the Bath House will include new shingles (matched to old photographs) on the roofs; stabilizing of all concrete block and slab flooring; new drainage in the changing areas; recreation of the benches that Kahn had used. There will also be new shower stalls and toilets. The former basket room [where swimmers checked their street clothes] will be renovated to accommodate an entry desk and support services.
Changes at the Day Camp include demolition of two pavilions that are not repairable. They will be recreated alongside the two remaining pavilions.
Farewell, Mills, and Gatsch is the architectural firm doing all of the restoration and new construction. Heritage Landscapes is in charge of the landscape design.
NY TIMES previews our upcoming book FINDA FRIDA KAHLO · 06/26/2009
Today’s edition of the New York Times contains an article by Eve M. Kahn that previews our Fall 2009 publication Finding Frida Kahlo by Barbara Levine.
Click here or on the image below to check out the slide show that accompanies the article.
Finding Frida Kahlo presents, for the first time in print, an astonishing lost archive of one of the twentieth century’s most revered artists. Hidden from view for over half a century, this richly illustrated, intimate portrait overflows with fascinating details about Kahlo’s romances, friendships, and business affairs during a three-decade period, beginning in the 1920s when she was a teenager and ending just before she died in 1954.
Full of ardent desires, seething fury, and outrageous humor, Finding Frida Kahlo is a rare glimpse into an exuberant and troubled existence: A vivid diary entry records her sexual encounter with a woman named Doroti; a painted box contains eleven stuffed hummingbirds, concealed beneath a letter in which she laments her discovery that her husband, Diego Rivera, had been monstrously dissecting “these beautiful creatures” to extract an aphrodisiac; an altered French medical book describes the pain she was suffering from the amputation of her right leg, written by Kahlo upon pages that illustrate an amputation technique; a letter to a friend expresses her loneliness, and a simple request for coconut candies. Frida Kahlo never wrote an autobiography. Instead, she left behind a much more complex material universe. Finding Frida Kahlo offers scholars and fans alike an opportunity to examine firsthand Kahlo’s secret world and draw their own conclusions about how she imagined her place in it.
TONIGHT! An open house celebrating The Handy Book of Artistic Printing · 06/25/2009
TONIGHT! An open house celebrating
The Handy Book of ArtisticPrinting
Authors Angela Voulangas and
Doug Clouse will be in attendance!
Bowne & Co., Stationers
211 Water Street at South Street Seaport Museum 212-748-8651
Thursday, 6/25/09 from 6 to 8 PM
Bowne & Co., Stationers, a part of the South Street Seaport Museum, resembles a typical job shop of the late 1870’s. The space would have been rather dim and lit by gas. Printing was done on presses that were powered by a treadle that had to be pumped with the foot. The shop employees had to hand-pick each piece of metal type to hand-set the text.
"I recommend a veritable Whitman's Sampler of ornamental confections from the Victorian age of "artistic" printing..." · 06/24/2009
From today’s DAILY HELLER:
“Adolf Loos, the architect, condemned ornament as a sin. Yet there are much worse design crimes (and I’m sure you can share many in the comments section). Even if you subscribe to Loos’s proto-modernist dictum, you may still enjoy the sinful pleasure of ornament. If so, I recommend a veritable Whitman’s Sampler of ornamental confections from the Victorian age of “artistic” printing: The Handy Book of Artistic Printing: A Collection of Letterpress Examples with Specimens of Type, Ornament, Corner Fills, Borders, Twisters, Wrinklers, and Other Freaks of Fancy."
“Now that’s a mouthful, but the title is no less ornate than the printers’ flourishes that you’ll find in this handsome volume by Doug Clouse and Angela Voulangas.”
This Saturday (6/27) - Marmol Radziner Shops Launch Event/Book Signing at Dwell on Design Conference & Exhibition · 06/22/2009
Marmol Radziner + Associates Celebrates Launch of “Marmol Radziner Shops” with Book Signing Event at Dwell on Design Conference & Exhibition
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA
Meet architects Ron Radziner, FAIA and Leo Marmol, FAIA at a book signing event to celebrate the launch of Marmol Radziner Shops. The architects’ in-house wood and metal workshop services are now available to homeowners, architects, designers, and contractors alike. The architect’s event booth (Outdoor B#10) features fine examples of Marmol Radziner’s furniture collection, including a custom solid walnut dining set and solid walnut sideboard.
The firm’s first monograph: Marmol Radziner + Associates: Between Architecture and Construction highlights a sampling of the firm’s fine craftsmanship in furniture design and fabrication, as well as a selection of its award-winning projects, including mid-Century restorations, new residences, prefab homes, community spaces, and sustainable commercial sites.
Sold by Skylight bookstore at the Dwell on Design Conference, the book provides an insider’s perspective on the give and take between the ideals of design and the reality of building.