EMPAC is a building like no other. The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Center (EMPAC) is an extraordinary instrument for artists and researchers alike. With its concert hall, a theater and experimental black box studios, EMPAC bridges the ever-expanding potential of digital technology with the most refined details for acoustics, visual production and performing arts. EMPAC is designed, without compromise, for technology and the human experience, ranging from performances and new productions in time-based arts to the creation and navigation of large-scale immersive environments by researchers and engineers. On the campus of the oldest technological university in the U.S., the vision of EMPAC synthesizes a grand architectural gesture with the complex requirements of a true interdisciplinary enterprise for the 21st century. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson's foreword describes a vision for a 21st-century research university and EMPAC as one instrument to enhance the culture of a polytechnic institute and to provoke innovation. An essay from EMPAC director Johannes Goebel focuses on the human dimension and the senses and the frontier of time-based arts. Essays by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, acoustician R. Lawrence Kirkegaard, theater design consultant Joshua Dachs and Grimshaw Architects' partner involved in the project from beginning to end William Horgan, each examine the question of performance- based design integration and tell the stories of innovations that resulted from their various important points of view. The building and the book do more than promise results. Being in operation for two years at the conclusion of writing the Architecture of EMPAC, the book concludes with appendix complete with the events it has been home to, the artists who have been in residence and the new productions to date, with the opening concert, excerpts from the opening festival, a building light installation plus a time-lapsed movie of the construction included in a DVD.

The Architecture of EMPAC: The Tangible and the Tantalizing

Arts & Photography

Mistur, Mark

Architecture

ORO Editions

This book is not just about a building; it is about how major architecture gets commissioned, managed and built in Australia today. In this case, we look at the new billion dollar Melbourne Convention Centre. The book follows the whole process – from the three trucks of drawings, documents and models sent to the Premier’s office, which won the initial design competition, through to the newspapers lurching into gear with their familiar rhetoric. Yet, despite the glare of media attention, the process that lies behind big architecture is far from clear. This book explores this process, through a building that not only challenges the conventions of public space, but also what architecture means in the contemporary city.

The Private Life of Public Architecture

Los Angeles Boulevard Eight X-rays of the Body Public

Doug Suisman

The relaunch of the First Things First (FTF) manifesto by Adbusters Magazine in the year 2000 shook the world of design of its very core, implicating its practitioners in crimes against culture and the planet. With Design Anarchy, Adbusters' editor and sometime art director Kalle Lasn takes the FTF debate to another level, using a hybrid graphic/text language that is by turns intimate, anarchic, abstract, and accusatory to explore the role of Design in the pollution and redemption of our mental and physical commons. Handmade elements and a CD-ROM filled with video and Flash pieces expand the debate beyond the page. In the battle for a new kind of meaning, Design Anarchy is a 320 page mind bomb without precedent.

Design Anarchy

Kalle Lasn

History & Criticism

Whether it is a diminutive cottage hidden in a forest or the elaborate lakeside compound of Bill and Melinda Gates, the American architectural firm of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has designed each project with an unusually rare sensitivity to its natural environment. In his introduction, Thomas Fisher notes that each of the houses ...in its own way, reminds us of what we first built in the forests and savannas from which human communities emerged... and we see what we once were, and because of that, what we might once again become. A foreword by James Cutler, an introduction by Thomas Fisher, and an essay by Peter Bohlin accompany hundreds of lavish colour photographs richly detailed conceptual sketches, presentation drawings, and construction documents to reveal the sheer brilliance and artistry of this work. Inserted in a back cover pocket is an eighteen panel foldout portraying four decades of the built and unbuilt residential work of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.

Arcadian – 12 Houses

Architects, BCJ

Holding to the highest standards of technical craft to create problem-solving landscapes that attain artful expression, Peter Walker and Partners (PWP) is responsible for some of the most beautiful and iconic works of landscape architecture in the world.

Peter Walker Partners: Landscape Architecture: Defining the Craft

Walker, Peter

Square Paperback 4to. 54 pages. Illustrated throughout. Essay by Jane Brown Gillette.

Forest in the Sky: Peter Walker and Partners

Jane Brown Gillette, Peter Walker and Partners

<div>Structures chronicles recent work from some of the top architects and interior designers in practice today, addressing the idea of the architecture skeleton, investigating interior and exterior forms as essential, tensile constructioins.</div>

Structures: Architecture in Detail

Riera Ojeda, Oscar

McCown, James

On October 3, 2003, the Liberty Cell Center, the new home of the Liberty Bell, was opened to the public. The building, designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, is one of the highlights of Philadelphia's reconfigured Independence Mall. This book offers a close look at the building. It presents an extensive set of reproductions and photographs, including records of the design and building process, that thoroughly document the building and its surroundings. The book also features essays that flesh out the building's rich context and its historical background. They include insiders' accounts of the design process as well as critical maps of the constellation of forces that come into play in shaping a building of this significance.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson: Liberty Bell Center

History

Oscar Riera Ojeda

Laurie Olin

Rodolphe El-Khoury

Bernard Cywinski

Richard Sommer

Americas

Located in New York City since 1972, Peter L. Gluck and Partners is known for the integrity of their designs and sensitivity to the relationship between architectural form and context. Rather than specializing in a particular building type or specific architectural style, the firm provides appropriate responses to often difficult and conflicting requirements. The firm has designed buildings throughout the United States, ranging from houses, schools, religious buildings and community centers to hotels, corporate interiors, university buildings, and historic restorations. Many projects have won national and international design awards. This extensive overview of the firm's practice includes architectural drawings, digital and physical models, and photographs of both finished and in-progress projects.

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