In their 20 years of architectural practice, Proctor and Matthews Architects have developed a reputation for being at the centre of Britain's urban regeneration debate. Pattern Place Purpose: Proctor and Matthews Architects takes a close look at the company's body of work, examining its working practices in detail. Established in London, the practice has worked with regeneration agencies across the UK, as well as in Europe, the US, New Zealand, and the Caribbean, providing practical and innovative strategies forenhancing urban design. Proctor and Matthews' work has won numerous awards, and the practice have been involved in teaching at some of the UK's leading architectural schools.Proctor and Matthews' work has been consistently committed to imaginative, relevant and forward-thinking solutions in each of its urban projects. This book explores, through commissioned essays,how the practice's concern for cultural identity, historical context and sustainability has earned it international recognition, receiving awards from organisations as diverse as the RIBA, the Evening Standard London Life Style, the World Wildlife Fund and the Civic Trust. Pattern Place Purpose profiles an outstanding, prolific and diverse practice.

Pattern Place Purpose: Procter and Matthews Architects

Arts & Photography

McCorquodale, Duncan

Architecture

Artifice Books on Architecture

The Founding Myths of Architecture brings together and discusses the work of some of the most influential and intriguing figures in the history of architecture. By returning to the authentic roots from which modern architectural thought has sprung, it explores the significance of the discipline in relation to the evolution of mankind. The contributors, international leading theorists from a variety of disciplines, provide fascinating texts that contribute to the broad discussion on architecture and its relationship with science, nature, art and society. Kari Jormakka, Fabio Barry, Pedro Azara, Caspar Pearson and Henry Dietrich Fernández are just some of the respected scholars whose writings comprise this authoritative look at the origins of architectural practice and its importance to the development of modern society. By exploring architecture as a basic human instinct, linking contemporary architecture to ideas surrounding mythology and cosmos and assessing the importance of architecture from an anthropological viewpoint, The Founding Myths of Architecture is a refreshing take on architectural theory. The oeuvre of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, Francesco Borromini, André Le Notre, Giorgio Grognet and Marcus Vitruvius Pollio amongst others is visually referenced in the context of these topics. Published in both French and English editions, this collection of essays pushes the boundaries of architectural criticism by encompassing history and anthropology in its analysis of design theory and by moving away from a purely rational and functional understanding of architecture.

Founding Myths of Architecture

History & Criticism

The first comprehensive overview of the firm since Deborah Berke was published in 2008, Deborah Berke Partners: Working focuses on the most recent work of the practice, as manifest in buildings and spaces for work, art, music, and creative endeavours more generally. Working also touches on past projects, such as the Yale School of Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery and Irwin Bank. Using as one point of reference Deborah Berke's book with Steven Harris, Architecture of the Everyday, Working goes into detail on Berke's concerns for the ordinary and well as her unique embrace of―and take on―modernism and minimalism. With a particular interest in interstitial building and the renovation and restoration of nineteenth and twentieth century American architecture, the work of the practice occupies a remarkable position within contemporary practice―Berke's approach to context, to the ordinary, and to vernacular and industrial buildings all being clear evidence of this.Along with writing by Deborah Berke herself, the book is authored by Henry Urback, Director of the Glass House, and highly regarded critic, curator and theoretician of contemporary architecture. Working, in part, is also comprised of the insightful photography of Victoria Sambunaris, a long-standing collaborator of Berke's, and chronicler of the practice's work.

Working: Deborah Berke Partners

Berke, Deborah

Ordinary and Extraordinary tells the story of the celebrated Los Angeles-based architecture and design practice Brooks + Scarpa, recipients of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. Working across disciplines including landscape architecture, planning and environmental design, as well as furniture, graphic and interior design, Brooks + Scarpa employs a rigorous research process and technological prowess to produce iconic buildings that surprise and delight in their ability to enrich the cultural fabric of our cities. Equally dynamic and accessible is Ordinary and Extraordinary, which charts Brooks + Scarpa’s history to date, methodology and working philosophy through a selection of highlighted projects that come to life through a narrative concerning the practice, penned by ex-journalist and Wallpaper* contributor Tibby Rothman. Ordinary and Extraordinary takes its readers on a journey from Brooks + Scarpa’s origins in 1991 as Pugh + Scarpa to its current leadership under Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa, who together steer the 25-person team from one successful project to the next, emphasising a collaborative and client-led approach that is further lauded for its sustainability-savvy design approach. Their work ranges from high-density housing in Chengdu, China, to Downtown Los Angeles boutiques like Aesop’s cardboard-coated interiors; it spans the iconic, Corten-clad facades of the Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center at Laumeier Sculpture Park near St Louis, Missouri, and the futuristic canopy roof of the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. Ordinary and Extraordinary meditates upon the artistry defining Brooks + Scarpa’s unique practice in a format equally engaging as an object and a book.

Ordinary and Extraordinary: Brooks + Scarpa

Rothman, Tibby

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Pattern Place Purpose: Procter and Matthews Architects

Founding Myths of Architecture

Working: Deborah Berke Partners

Ordinary and Extraordinary: Brooks + Scarpa