Architecture duo Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty have the pleasure to present their new book, published by Phaidon. Yves Saint Laurent Museum Marrakech tells the remarkable story of the landmark museum in Marrakech dedicated to the legendary French fashion designer’s creative work. The book chronicles the unique collaboration between Saint Laurent’s partner, Pierre Bergé, and architecture firm Studio KO, taking readers behind the scenes on a creative journey at the intersection of architecture, design, and fashion. The reader will be able to follow the incredible adventure of 1,423 days during which the museum was designed and built.
This book situates Feldman Architecture’s work within the northern California design canon and illustrates how the firm’s voice subtly translates across diverse geographies and contexts.
Architect Rafael Pardo's buildings are almost sculptural: concrete prisms intersecting to form domestic spaces. In each of his projects he seeks to push the properties of concrete to the limit to achieve greater formal expressiveness, so that the material becomes structure, wall and finish. This publication narrates the premises and processes of his architecture that point towards a new brutalism, through essays, an interview and eight projects built in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz.
In an exploration of ten recent projects situated throughout the Rocky Mountain West, Connection: CCY Architects reveals the Colorado-based firm’s approach to its work, sharing the discoveries and opportunities that emerge with each project. From an internal, experiential perspective, to integration within particular environments, the pages within this book spotlight the firm’s five decades of collective understanding and continued curiosity.
In Architecture Unbound, noted architecture critic Joseph Giovannini takes us to architecture’s wilder shores as he traces a century of the avant-garde to transgressive and progressive art movements that roiled Europe before and after World War I, and to the social unrest and cultural disruption of the 1960s.
Light Space Life is the first monograph from internationally recognised South African architecture studio SAOTA, known for crafting exceptional modern buildings that forgepowerful connections to their extraordinary settings.
180 Degrees Design + Build is an architect-led design-build firm specializing in high end custom residential design and remodels, technically challenging commercial design and construction, historic preservation, and adaptive re-use. Phoenix, Arizona and the surrounding desert Southwest provide the dramatic backdrop for our modern, elegant, and purpose-driven architecture.
Richard Francis‐Jones Takes a Stark and Poetic Look at his Profession. “Architecture has never been more challenged than it is today,” contends Richard Francis‐Jones, LFRAIA, Hon. FAIA, RIBA, in his new book Truth and Lies in Architecture (ORO Editions).