Sparano + Mooney Architecture : A Way of Working

Studio Michael Aberman

ISBN 10: 3775750584 / ISBN 13: 9783775750585

Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag Jun 2022, 2022

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Neuware - The American architectural firm of Sparano + Mooney in Salt Lake City, Utah and Los Angeles, CA, stands for sustainable and innovative buildings that are harmoniously embedded in spectacular mountain landscapes. In this volume, architectural critic Michael Webb presents ten projects with the aid of photographs, drawings, sketches and texts, visualizing the process by which architectural ideas are conceived and realized. The architects respond in their plans to the overwhelming natural surroundings with restrained forms and the innovative detailing of materials. The firm's models, sketches, conceptual drafts and fully executed buildings offer a thoughtful perspective on developing architecture that thrives on the relationship between concept and place. Accompanying essays relate the buildings to their regional contexts and also highlight analogies to Land Art.MICHAEL WEBB is a Los Angeles-based British author who has written more than twenty books on architecture and design. He was named an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects and made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French culture.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sparano + Mooney Architecture : A Way of Working
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag Jun 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775750584
• ISBN 13: 9783775750585
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

The debut publication on one of the American West’s foremost architectural firms

Recognized as one of the top architecture firms in the world working in mountain settings, Sparano + Mooney Architecture is a leading American practice with offices in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. Its buildings can be found throughout California, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and beyond. The firm works at multiple scales, from micro off-the-grid projects, to new-build work and adaptive reuse of historic and midcentury modern structures, to new institutional, cultural and worship buildings, mixed-use, master planning and urban design projects. Since the firm’s founding in 1996, its work has earned it more than 50 design awards, and has been featured in publications and exhibitions around the world.
This first monograph of the firm’s work presents 10 projects through images, drawings and a series of essays that tie the work to vernacular ideals and land art. Finding meaningfulness in everyday materials rendered extraordinary through creativity and craft, the book investigates what it means to work within the context of the American West.