BY & ABOUT: Publications reflecting the Northwest design scene

 
.AIA Seattle offers with pride this news of recent/imminent publications "by and about" individuals and their work, focusing particularly on the Northwest design culture. In The AIA Seattle Architect, AIA Seattle Program Director Peter Sackett offers a counterpart feature with more extensive review of publications reflecting the local design scene.

* Tom Kundig: Houses, by Dung Ngo, Steven Holl, Rick Joy (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006)

* Urban Youth Programs in American: A Study of Youth, Community, and Social Justice, conducted for the Ford Foundation by Dr. Sharon E. Sutton FAIA with others (UW Center for Environment Education and Design Studies/CEEDS, 2006).

* Change Design: Conversations about Architecture as The Ultimate Business Tool, by NBBJ and Bruce Mau (Greenway Communications, 2006)

*A Global History of Architecture, by Francis D. K. Ching, Mark M. Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash (Wiley, August 2006)

* Clair Enlow, Living Places: The Architecture and Landscape Architecture of Jones & Jones (Landmarks, 2006)

* Victoria Kaplan, Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)

*Art & Architecture: The Ebsworth Collection and Residence, by Dung Ngo and Franklin Kelly (William Stout Publishers, 2006) features a home designed by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen.

* The Survival Guide to Architectural Internship and Career Development, by Grace H. Kim AIA, Foreword by Thomas Fisher (Wiley, 2006)

* Transmaterial: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment, by Blaine E. Brownell AIA (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006)

* Anne Gould Hauberg: Fired by Beauty, by Barbara Johns (University of Washington Press, 2005)

* Toward a New Regionalism: Environmental Architecture in the Pacific Northwest, by David Miller FAIA (UW Press, June 2005)

* Arcadian Architecture: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson - 12 Houses, by Oscar Riera Ojeda. Foreword by James Cutler FAIA, Preface by Peter Bohlin FAIA, Introduction by Thomas Fisher (Thames + Hudson, May 2005)

* A City Among the Trees, by Arai Jackson Ellison Murakami et al., published by the City of Seattle Urban Forest Coalition

* Pioneer Square, Seattle's Oldest Neighborhood (UW Press, March 2005) includes contributions from Karin Murr Link Assoc AIA.

*Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way, by Jim Diers (UW Press, 2004)

*A Thriving Modernism: The Houses of Wendell Lovett and Arne Bystrom, by Grant Hildebrand and T. William Booth (UW Press, November 2004)

*Cutler Anderson Architects, by Sheri Olson FAIA (Rockport Publishers, March 2004)

*Place of Learning, Place of Dreams: A History of the Seattle Public Library, by John Douglas Marshall (UW Press, 2004)

* Process: Seattle Central Library, by Lara Swimmer (Documentary Media and University of Washington, 2004)

* Callison: Creating Smarter Places. Text by Richard Rapaport, ed. Brad Collins (Visual Reference Publications, Inc., 2003)

*LMN Architects: Design in the Public Realm. Preface by Mark Reddington FAIA (l'Arca Edizioni, 2003)

*Carlson Architects: Expanding Northwestern Regionalism, ed. John Pastier & Donald Carlson FAIA (Edizioni Press, 2003)

*A World Home: Vastu Shastra for a Modern World, by J. William Curtis AIA (Trafford Press, 2003): a workbook dealing with programming aspects of home design. The author describes the book as "a guide to one way of falling in love with the world."

* Recollections of a Civic Errand Boy, The Autobiography of John Henry Hauberg, Jr. (University of Washington Press, 2003)

*Spring Home Design '03, The Seattle Times Pacific NW Magazine 5/18/03 features Villa Simonyi by Wendell Lovett FAIA, a Hood Canal getaway by Miller|Hull, and Jim Cutler FAIA in the 'Architects at Home' series - among a variety of residential design expressions.

*Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects: Architecture, Art, and Craft, introduction by Paul Goldberger (Monacelli Press, 2003).
See Sheila Farr's review in The Seattle Times 4/06, 'Studying the architectural styles that shaped Seattle.'
See Peter Sackett's review in the AIA Seattle Architect 6/03.
See "Bluff House" in ArchitectureWeek 7/1/03.

*Seattle Case Study Homes, available at Peter Miller Books (2002). Read Peter Sackett's review for The AIA Seattle Architect 3/03.

*Coastal Retreats: The Pacific Northwest and the Architecture of Adventure, by Linda Leigh Paul (Universe, 2002). Read Peter Sackett's review for The AIA Seattle Architect 4/03.

*Reebok World Headquarters, NBBJ, by Oscar Riera Ojeda (2003)

*Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H. H. Richardson, by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner FAIA and Dennis Alan Andersen (UW Press, January 2003).
Review by Sheila Farr in The Seattle Times 4/06/03: 'Studying the architectural styles that shaped Seattle.'
Review by Sheri Olson AIA in Seattle P-I 4/10/03: 'Book closes gap in Seattle's design history.'

*Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Post-Colonial India, by Vikramaditya Prakash (UW Press, 2002)

*Sento at Sixth and Main, by Gail Dubrow with Donna Graves (UW Press, 2002)

*Civic Builders, by Curtis W. Fentress FAIA et al. (Wiley-VCH, 2002) includes sections on recent civic work by local architects. Curtis Fentress addressed local audiences at UW CAUP 4/17/03 and at the AIA Seattle/AIAS-UW Design Dialog 'Civic Seattle' 4/18/03.

*Miller/Hull, Architects of the Pacific Northwest, by Sheri Olson AIA (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001)

* Anderson Anderson: Architecture and Construction (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001)

*The Campus Guide: The University of Washington, by Norman J. Johnston FAIA (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001)

*Roland Terry: Master Northwest Architect, by Justin Henderson (UW Press, 2000)

*Citistate Seattle: Shaping a Modern Metropolis, by Mark Hinshaw FAIA (APA Planners Press, 1999)

*Origins of Architectural Pleasure, by Grant Hildebrand (U. of California Press, 1999)

*Ten Houses: Miller|Hull Partnership, ed. Oscar Riera Ojeda (Rockport, 1999)

*Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, Between Science and Art (L'Arca Edizione, 1999)

*Made to Last: Architectural Preservation in Seattle and King County, by Lawrence Kreisman (UW Press, 1999)

*Peter Pran, An Architecture of Poetic Movement (Andreas Papadakis Publisher, 1998)

*Kirtland Cutter: Architect in the Land of Promise, by Henry Matthews (UW Press, 1998)

*Richard Haag: Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park, ed. William S. Saunders (Princeton Architectural Press, 1998)

*NBBJ-Designing Common Ground (The Master Architect Series/Images Publishing, 1997)

* Robert Murase: Stone and Water , by Michael Leccesse (Spacemaker Press, 1997)

*James Cutler (Contemporary World Architects/Rockport Publishers, 1996)

*Weaving a Tapestry of Resistance: The Places, Power, and Poetry of a Sustainable Society, by Dr. Sharon E. Sutton FAIA (Bergin & Garvey/Critical Studies in Education & Culture Series, 1996)

*The Fountain and the Mountain: The University of Washington Campus 1895-1995, by Norman J. Johnston FAIA (University of Washington: Documentary Book Publishers, 1995)

*Carl F. Gould, A Life in Architecture and the Arts, by T. William Booth and William H. Wilson (UW Press, 1995)

*Building Community: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, by Mildred F. Schmertz FAIA (Rockport Publishers, 1995)

*Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects, ed. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner FAIA (UW Press, 1994)

*Seeing Seattle, by Roger Sale. Photographs by Mary Randlett. Foreword by Peter Steinbrueck (UW Press, 1990)

*Washington's Audacious State Capitol and Its Builders, by Norman J. Johnston FAIA (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988)

*Cities in the Round, by Norman J. Johnston FAIA (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1983)

*A Guide to Architecture in Washington State: An Environmental Perspective, by Sally B. Woodbridge and Roger Montgomery. Introduction by David Streatfield. University of Washington Press, 1980.

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