Outside In: The Architecture of Smith and Williams

Smith, Rowland, and Williams, Wayne; Gibbs, Jocelyn (Edited by), with Denzer, Anthony, et al. (Essays by)

ISBN 10: 1606064517 / ISBN 13: 9781606064511

Edité par Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barabara in Association with Getty Publications, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, 2015

A propos de cet article

Pictorial boards, 192 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Exhibition held at Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 13 to June 16, 2013. Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation as part of Pacific Standard Time presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. Firm binding, clean inside copy. A large-format coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "This is an eye-opening tour through the exuberant works of two pioneering postwar architects. From 1946 to 1973, Whitney Rowland Smith and his partner, Wayne Williams, designed more than 800 projects, from residential, commercial, and public buildings to housing tracts, multi-use complexes, and parks and master plans for cities. Working in the wake of the first generation of avant-garde architects in Southern California and riding the postwar building boom, their firm, Smith and Williams, developed a pragmatic modernism that, through remarkable planning and design, integrated landscapes with buildings and decisively shaped the modern vocabulary of architecture in Los Angeles. Through a breathtaking array of images, Outside In unveils the core of Smith and Williams' architectural practice. Their most influential designs, the authors show, are compositions of balanced opposites: shelter and openness, private and public, restraint and exuberance, light and shadow. Smith and Williams created spaciousness in their buildings by layering spaces and manipulating the relationship between structure and landscape. This spaciousness expressed modern ideas about the relationship of architecture to environment, of building to site, and, ultimately, of outside to in." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Director's preface, by E. Bruce Robertson; Outside in: the architecture of Smith and Williams, by Jocelyn Gibbs; The USC connection: origins and context in the work of Whitney R. Smith, by Debi Howell-Ardila; No coincidence: Whitney Smith and Japanese influences at midcentury, by Anthony Denzer; Defining views: nature as architectural element, by Lilian Pfaff; Running daily errands: commercial architecture of suburbia, by Alan Hess; A note about the exhibition; Selected projects of Whitney Smith and Smith and Williams. Size: 4to.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Outside In: The Architecture of Smith and Williams
• Éditeur: Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barabara in Association with Getty Publications, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1606064517
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781606064511
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: Fine
• Type de livre: Collectible
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Architecture::Domestic
  • USA::States::California
  • Architecture::Architects
  • New Books
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES
  • XXL::Extra Extra Large

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Synopsis

From 1946 to 1973, Whitney Rowland Smith and his partner, Wayne Williams, designed more than 800 projects, from residential, commercial, and public buildings to housing tracts, multi-use complexes, and parks and master plans for cities. Working in the wake of the first generation of avant-garde architects in Southern California and riding the postwar building boom, their firm, Smith and Williams, developed a pragmatic modernism that, through remarkable planning and design, integrated landscapes with buildings and decisively shaped the modern vocabulary of architecture in Los Angeles.

Through a breathtaking array of images, Outside In unveils the core of Smith and Williams's architectural practice. Their most influential designs, the authors show, are compositions of balanced opposites: shelter and openness, private and public, restraint and exuberance, light and shadow. Smith and Williams created spaciousness in their buildings by layering spaces and manipulating the relationship between structure and landscape. This spaciousness expressed modern ideas about the relationship of architecture to environment, of building to
site, and, ultimately, of outside to in.

À propos de l'auteur

Jocelyn Gibbs is curator at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Debi Howell-Ardila is an architectural historian at SWCA Environmental Consultants in Pasadena, California. Anthony Denzer is associate professor of architectural engineering at the University of Wyoming. Lilian Pfaff is the cofounder of the Foundation Architecktur Dialoge where she is also a curator and editor. Alan Hess is an architect, author, lecturer, and advocate for twentieth-century architectural preservation.