WORKac: We'll Get There When We Cross That Bridge - Hardcover

Andraos, Amale; Wood, Dan

 
9781580934992: WORKac: We'll Get There When We Cross That Bridge
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1580934994 ISBN 13: 9781580934992
Verlag: The Monacelli Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

An engaging, playfully designed survey of the small- and large-scale projects that define WORKac as one of the most progressive and optimistic architecture firms in practice today.

This book surveys the projects that define WORKac (WORK Architecture Company) as one of the most progressive and playful architecture firms in practice today.

WORKac: We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge traces fifteen years of collaboration between architects Amale Andraos and Dan Wood. Structured as a conversation between the two partners, the book alternates between explorations of seminal projects and discussions framing a series of issues that are key to their work. The book follows the firm’s career over the course of three Five-Year Plans (Say Yes to Everything, Make No Medium-Sized Plans, Stuff the Envelope), examining the relationships between work and life, and the limits and opportunities of collaborative creativity and practice.

WORKac has achieved international acclaim, winning design competitions in Russia, Gabon, and China, and in 2015 the practice was named the 2015 AIANY State Firm of the Year. Showcasing projects for MoMA PS1, Edible Schoolyards NYC, Anthropologie, Diane von Furstenberg, Creative Time, and many more, the book is a tasting menu of everything the practice embraces: never assuming what architecture “is” but always imagining together what it can become. From residential interiors to futuristic masterplans of ecological cities, WORKac samples the wide spectrum of their critical, witty, and dialogued work.

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WORKac (WORK Architecture Company) founding partners Dan Wood, raised in Rhode Island, and Beirut-born Amale Andraos joined forces personally and professionally in 2003. The firm has achieved international acclaim and was named the 2015 New York State Firm of the Year. Andraos and Wood have taught and lectured extensively, and in 2015 Andraos was appointed Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Their previous publications include Above the Pavement―the Farm! and 49 Cities.

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Since its founding by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood in 2003, New York-based architecture office WORKac (Work Architecture Company) has developed a body of projects aimed at pushing the traditional definitions of architecture, envisioning and realizing alternative possibilities for the built environment. WORKac creates architecture and strategic planning concepts at the intersection of the urban, the rural, and the natural. These works include Wieden+Kennedy's New York office, the 2008 Young Architects Prize installation PF1 held in MoMA PS1's courtyard, Brooklyn's first "edible schoolyard" at an elementary school, a new entry pavilion at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, and other projects for Anthropologie, Diane von Furstenberg, and Creative Time, as well as numerous projects abroad, including a cultural center converted from 300-year old warehouses in St. Petersburg, Russia, and a new diplomatic center in Gabon. Operating under the motto, "A building has to perform something," Wood and Andraos operate by a set of principles that distinguish them in today's form-obsessed practice: Engage with reality; Be all-inclusive; Produce an excess of life. This book is far less of a conventional monograph than what they call a duograph: an ongoing conversation between Wood and Andraos about architecture, paralleling the conversations they have had about their work since founding the practice, never assuming what architecture "is" but always imagining together what it could become. WORKac covers the first three phases of the office's output over fifteen years, including a dozen key completed projects and many smaller scale works, proposals, books, and research endeavors.

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Verlag
The Monacelli Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1580934994
ISBN 13 
9781580934992
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
360
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