Som Journal: Recent Projects - Softcover

Balmond, Cecil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3775710892 ISBN 13: 9783775710893

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

Since 1936, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has set the standard for corporate design practice, producing some of the most iconic buildings of the century and shaping cities throughout the world. The SOM Journal, a new, small-format publication, takes stock of the firm's most recent work in progress and brings SOM's current design research to light. Contributors include the artist Jenny Holzer, Ove/Arup & Partners engineer Cecil Balmond, the architectural critic and historian Kenneth Frampton and architect Kesse Reiser of Reiser + Umemoto. The amply illustrated volume, designed by renowned Dutch graphic designers Studio COMA, offers a critical look at five current projects and includes an interview with retired SOM partner Walter Netsch, designer of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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About the Author

Jenny Holzer was born in 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio. She first came to prominence in New York in the late 70s and early 80s. Among other awards she has received, Holzer in 1990 became the first woman to ever win the Leone d'Oro at the Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited in most every major museum around the world, and she has created installations for public and private sites including the Reichstag and the Times Square Spectacolor billboard in New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 3775710892
• ISBN 13: 9783775710893
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Wang Wilfried