Goettsch Partners: Selected Works

• Recognized as the 2013 AIA Chicago Firm of the Year, Goettsch Partners is an important player in international architecture
• Features beautiful full-colour spreads throughout of projects across multiple typologies, including international public spaces, such as the magnificent Abu Dhabi Global Market Square, the renowned UBS Tower in Chicago, and the recently completed Zurich North America Headquarters.
• Provides unique insight into the contemporary practices and philosophy of an internationally recognized architecture and design practice, responsible for a legacy of built works across five continents.
• The firm's first book in more than 10 years, and a complement to their original monograph, published in 2007
• Targets to both the design community and those looking for a valuable resource on the best in contemporary workplace design, including architecture and design practitioners, real estate executives, developers, property managers, and others.

As the highly anticipated second volume on Goettsch Partners in IMAGES’ iconic Master Architect series, this book reveals the firm’s most significant leading projects in global design, both built and in progress. Moreover, it explores how the firm’s contemporary approach to design philosophy is based on the belief that exceptional planning and design respond to the combination of functional, technical, economic and aesthetic factors.

Filled throughout with full-color photographs, detailed plans, sketches and diagrams, and illuminating texts, the pages within this superb monograph catalog a national and international portfolio of works, including the planning and design of large-scale commercial developments, corporate campuses, cultural and institutional buildings, federal and local government facilities, hotels and residential complexes, and public open space.

Through a progression of leadership transitions, Goettsch Partners (GP) traces its roots to the Chicago practice started by Mies van der Rohe in 1938. James Goettsch joined the practice in 1992 and has instilled a culture in which this legacy informs and inspires the search for its own timeless materiality and clarity of architectural expression―appropriate for the 21st century.

GP is an architecture firm with a global perspective. Based in Chicago, with additional offices in Shanghai and Abu Dhabi, it shares a singular approach to design that combines seasoned experience with a passion for exploration and innovation. Its completed and active projects span five continents. The firm's partners have deliberately sought and encouraged a diversified practice. As a result, it has developed a rich history of transforming complex challenges across a range of project types into singular design solutions of lasting impact and value.