Alameda: More Boss Architecture Words, Buildings: Machines - Softcover

Jones, Wes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1961856573 ISBN 13: 9781961856578

Verlag: Oro Editions, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

This third volume in the monograph series of work by Jones, Partners: Architecture picks up where the previous volume El Segundo left off.  After 10 years in El Segundo the office has relocated near Sciarc in the arts district of DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles) where Jones is teaching and many of the team members have matriculated or are studying.

Alameda covers all the work done in this location between 2007 and 2013, in 330 densely packed (but artfully designed, by the Afton Klein Design group) pages, including “words, buildings, machines,” as well as projects, competitions, furniture and over forty pages of the firm’s signature graphic production in convenient tear-out sheets of posters, competition boards and other client presentation material. As the title suggests, the spirit of the work continues to be Boss, but this volume also records a new and ongoing exploration of what Jones terms “hard modernism,” which is to architecture what hard cider is to apple juice. This work sees itself as continuing the evolution of the machines for living as mechanisms for contemporary meaning.

This third volume in the monograph series of work by Jones, Partners: Architecture continues the coverage of the firms “words, buildings, machines,” in the same signature graphic form that made the previous two volumes inspirational collector’s items.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Wes Jones is a partner in the Los Angeles practice of Jones, Partners: Architecture, a Professor of Practice at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, an artist, author, inventor and father of Jack.

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•Architecture converts constraint into restraint.•Architecture is a medium specific statement of order that places us in the world.•If technology exists to make life easier, and efficiency is the measure of how easy that task can be for technology, architecture exists to make life more meaningful, and expression serves that end.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oro Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1961856573
• ISBN 13: 9781961856578
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 424
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