All American: Innovation in American Architecture - Softcover

LeCuyer, Annette W; Carter, Brian

9780500341827: All American: Innovation in American Architecture

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500341826 ISBN 13: 9780500341827

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2002

This volume presents the work of 20 architectural practices from every corner of the USA. It investigates the regional, theoretical and political strands relating to American culture and climate, and focuses on each studio in depth, featuring coverage of three to five projects.

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About the Author:

Annette LeCuyer is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan and the author of Radical Tectonics. Brian Carter, formerly of Ove Arup engineers in London, is Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan.

From Library Journal:

Written by practicing architects who teach at the University of Michigan, this valuable book showcases about 20 younger arxchitectural firms in the United States that are doing path-breaking work. It is organized by region, with four or five firms highlighted in each. Each profile offers biographical summaries of the firm's architects and information on three or four commissions. Most of the architects featured here were born in the 1950s and 1960s, and their work revives a tradition of radical modernism fed by cubism and minimalism that has overturned the sentimental nostalgia of neoconservative postmodernism popular in the 1980s. This translates into a cacophony of sharp edges, mixed media, mixed uses, complex sections, layered surfaces, and innovative materials making up some of the most striking, original, and attractive buildings of the last ten years. This book will serve as a quick look-up that will be useful to designers, architects, clients, artists, and historians. A few of the images are a bit grainy, as if they were reproduced from the Internet, but the illustrations are copious there are 400 altogether and most are in color. Highly recommended for design collections at all levels. Peter S. Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr.
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