The four states of architecture / Hanrahan + Meyers Architects.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanrahan, Thomas.

Meyers, Victoria.

Hanrahan + Meyers Architects.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--United States--History--20th century.

Architecture.

United States.

History.

Architecture, American.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester ; New York : Wiley-Academy, 2002.

Summary:

The work of New York architects Victoria Meyers and Thomas Hanrahan is remarkable for its interpretation of the modern world and minimalism, mixing ideas from philosophy and science. Their palette of materials includes wood, stone, glass and metals and these elements are carefully woven into the projects in finished and raw states. This gives the work both a natural and an abstract quality. Their work has an intellectual rigour stemming from the history of ideas and the arts, while maintaining a precise formal vocabulary that has allowed them to craft buildings that work equally well in rural and urban settings. The four states of architecture described in this book- horizon, light, atmospheres and ground - are derived from contemporary interpretations of matter, light and the natural world. This book features 14 of Hanrahan + Meyers' projects, each of which is aligned with one of these states. The projects range in scale from individual residences to galleries, museums, and buildings for the performing arts. The context of ideas in which they are set crosses the boundaries that typically divide architecture, art, science and experience.

Contents:

Horizon: Projects Inspired by Geometry and the Horizon Line 8

Interpretive Center, Elise Chapin Wildlife Sanctuary, Chattanooga, Tennessee 10

Hudson River House, Nyack, NY 18

Singer Residence, East Hampton, NY 26

Colour of light: Spaces 'Grown' By Light 34

Red Hook Center for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY 36

Michael Schrom and Company Studios, Long Island City, NY 46

Arts International Headquarters, New York, NY 56

Atmospheres: Fields or Voids Activated by Overlapping Textures 64

Holley Loft, New York, NY 66

Sagaponack House, Sagaponack, The Hamptons, Long Island, NY 76

WaterLine, Urban Plan for the Future, New York, NY 84

Ojai Festival Shell, Libbey Park, Ojai, California 92

Ground: Projects Surrounded or Constructed by Surfaces or Textures 100

Hunts Point Performance Center, Bronx, New York, NY 102

The Museum of Women, Battery Park City, New York, NY 112

Alves House, Northampton, Massachusetts 116

WaveLine - Latimer Gardens Community Center, Queens, New York, NY 122.

Notes:

Compiled by: Thomas Hanrahan and Victoria Meyers.

ISBN:

0471496529

OCLC:

48531400