Open Ended Format: Hardcover

Edited by agps architecture

ISBN 10: 385881718X / ISBN 13: 9783858817181

Published by University of Chicago press

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Open Ended Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• ISBN 10: 385881718X
• ISBN 13: 9783858817181
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Bridging the domains of urban design, infrastructure, landscape, and architecture, agps architecture approaches problem solving as a collaborative enterprise, exploring the relationship between idea and practice and emphasizing the importance of the functional, technical, economic, environmental, and aesthetic in design and construction methods.

            
The firm has designed multiple projects in America and Europe for government bodies and educational institutions, as well as several structures for commercial and residential use. Their projects in the United States include the Children’s Museum of Los Angeles, lunch shelters for the Los Angeles Unified School District, storefronts in Los Angeles’s Korea Town, private residences in California, and the Portland Aerial Tram.

            
Another Take is the first comprehensive survey of the projects imagined and completed by agps architecture. Complete with color photographs of each of the projects, floor plans, sections, and elevations, as well as several essays that delve into frequently overlooked aspects of architectural design, this stunning volume serves as both a portfolio and a sort of exploration of latent, but recognizable traits that are as much a part of the buildings as their physical manifestation.

About the Author

Founded in 1982, agps architecture is a multidisciplinary design cooperative with studios in Los Angeles and Zürich.