While it is necessary for buildings to house and shelter the programs that define them, architecture is significant when it ennobles those institutions through intellectual and emotional engagement with the people who occupy it. Buildings can give measure to one's place in the world; they provide insight and perspective. The Poetry Foundation is such a building. Accordingly, Centerline 9: The Poetry Foundation seeks to give the reader a palpable sense of the feeling of the place. With an emphasis on the physical and the phenomenal, the myriad images, drawings, sketches, and texts presented here are an attempt to give the reader access to those qualities there that are so compelling and worthwhile, and to set out a thesis that architecture is fundamentally about the built, physical artifact in relation to the broad conditions of its setting, program, and inhabitation.

Centerline 9: The Poetry Foundation

Raymund Ryan

Kevin Alter

Wilfried Wang

John Barr

John Ronan

Center for American Architecture and Design

Alterstudio Architecture of Austin, Texas focuses its attention on the relationship between the material facts of architecture and the social occasions it shelters and invites. The work is rooted in deep-seated virtues of architecture generous space making, shrewd manipulation of day lighting, and meticulous attention to detail. The heightening of direct human experience and the framing of the complex circumstances of their situations are at the core of each project. 
 Alterstudio Architecture: 6 Houses presents six houses from the widely recognized firm in great detail, representing different ways to approach the opportunities latent in the problem of the single-family-house. It includes essays by Carlos Jimenez, Wilfried Wang and John Reynolds. 
 The recipient of more than 90 design awards and widely published, this is the first book on the firm s work.

alterstudio Architecture: 6 Houses

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Carlos Jimenez

miami University , Department of Architecture and Interior Design

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