Archinect - Features

Aranda\Lasch's 'Trace Elements' Outlines the Seeds of Their Design Process

2018-04-10T12:43:00-04:00

The past decade has witnessed the canonization of a new type of architectural publication, the anti-monograph. This type of book could be defined as an early retrospective publication of a working architect on the architectural avant-garde. Unlike the traditional monograph which collects and focuses on a discreet body of work from a period of time, these books prefer to collect and frame the process and thought that animate the firm’s approach, often through speculative and projective work.

Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects pumps up the volume with "Amplified Urbanism"

2017-01-24T13:15:00-05:00

According to Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects’ new monograph Amplified Urbanism, not only has Los Angeles arrived as a city with its own idiosyncratic urbanism, but that urbanism deserves bolder, louder expression through architecture.

“An absolutely insanely private, esoteric conversation”: Thom Mayne on ‘M’

2016-03-21T13:49:00-04:00

How does an architect tell his story? Thom Mayne, who spent decades struggling to put the idiosyncratic visual terrain of his imagination into relatable speech, has chosen to tell his story with ‘M.’ Ostensibly the latest monograph by Morphosis, ‘M’ is also in Mayne’s view a comprehensive tour of his sensibility.

"A Dance for Architecture": A conversation with Steven Holl

2015-11-20T13:31:00-05:00

As a 34-year old architect, Steven Holl was appointed to a full-time teaching position at Columbia University with barely any completed works to his name, based on the strengths of his publication Pamphlet Architecture, previous teaching stints at Syracuse University and the University of Pennsylvania, and his competition entries. But rather than settling into academia, Holl continued to hone his conceptual formulations to create real buildings that incorporate a signature use of color, a notion of ‘poetry’ within physical places, and a constant refinement of his foundational architectural convictions.

Emotional tactility: Tom Kundig's latest "Works"

2015-11-17T11:45:00-05:00

Tom Kundig has a few credits to his name: aside from a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Smithsonian’s 2008 National Design Award in Architecture Design, and eleven national AIA awards, his firm Olson Kundig has also twice been named one of Fast Company’s “Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Architecture.” Now, the would-be geophysicist turned architect, known for his inventive blending of mechanics and aesthetics in private residences and public buildings alike, has a collection out by Princeton Architectural Press featuring his latest nine works, called Tom Kundig: Works.