Ride: Antoine Predock (Hardcover)

Hardcover. Recipient of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Award for Lifetime Achievement and the AIA Gold Medal, Antoine Predock is an icon of American architecture. This book is the comprehensive consideration of his lifes work.A trailblazing original, Predock is his own tour de force. In his work, steel, glass, and concrete are combined with natural materials to celebrate modern life. Initially considered a regionalist architectone who had captured the power of the deserthe has gone on to re-establish the importance of place in architecture in the tradition of Frank Lloyd Wright, Luis Barragan, and Louis Kahn. He has made experiencewhat Kahn would have called spiritual experienceonce again important in architecture.As critic for Time magazine, writing of Predocks work, Kurt Andersen observed: [it is] tough and sensual, fabulously imagined, altogether persuasive. Featuring the wide range of Predocks designed and built structures, including houses, schools, hotels, parks, theaters, nature centers, and more, this is an all-encompassing career/life memoirograph. It charts the architects journey from his beginnings, to his early days as a professional starting his own studio with the groundbreaking La Luz Community project, up to the present day, including the landmark Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The chronological presentation includes Predocks travel, travel sketches, and kinesthetic pursuits, encapsulating a life in architecture. Rich and multifaceted, like the work itself, this book showcases 3,500 photographs and features more than twenty gatefolds, which open to express the full scope of this modern master. Recipient of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Award for Lifetime Achievement and the AIA Gold Medal, Antoine Predock is an icon of American architecture. This book is the comprehensive consideration of his life s work. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.