Synopses & Reviews
The AsBuilt series is dedicated to presenting recent examples of formal and material innovation in architecture through detail and technical drawings, diagrams, photographs, and work-in-progress material, including fabrication and assembly.
Details, Technology, and Form, the third volume in the series, explores the genesis of twenty-five projects built in the United States and Canada, many notable for their multi-disciplinary design process. Editors Christine Killory and René Davids have selected buildings which have contributed to the ongoing evolution of architecture as a synthesis of art, engineering, and craft. From designs inspired by responses to environmental and energy concerns to re-interpretations of regional precedents or transformations of pre-fabricated building systems, all are testaments to the range and reach of contemporary architectural technology.
Projects by:
Anmahian Winton Architects
Bade Stageberg Cox
Charles H. Benson and Associates Architects
Choi Ropiha Fighera
De Leon and Primmer Architecture Workshop
Ennead Architects
Gray Organschi Architecture
Herzog and de Meuron Architekten
HHF Architects
Integrated Architecture
Kendall/Heaton Associates
Krueck + Sexton Architects
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Morphosis Architects
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Perkins Eastman
Rafael Viñoly Architects
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Richärd + Bauer
Robert Siegel Architects
Ross Barney Architects
Selldorf Architects
SJA Architects
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
SmithGroup Inc.
Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects
Stantec
Steven Kratchman Architect
Thomas Roszak Architecture
Toshiko Mori Architect
VOA Associates Incorporated
Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism
Zaha Hadid Architects
Synopsis
Details, Technology, and Form is the third volume in the continuing AsBuilt series, which features formal and material innovations in architecture with an emphasis on architectural detailing and the ways that architects and engineers are getting the maximum out what contemporary technology can do. The twenty-five projects in the book have been selected from current architecture built in the United States and Canada, including work by architects from abroad collaborating with North American teams. Layouts for each project comprise ten or twelve pages of architectural and technical drawings, diagrams, illustrations, and full-color photographs of the finished building, as well as work-in-progress material that illustrates fabrication and assembly and an explanatory text. Architects featured include: el Dorado Inc., Morphosis, MOS Architects, Polshek Partnership Architects, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, SOM, Toshiko Mori, Weiss/Manfredi, and Zaha Hadid Architects.
About the Author
Christine Killory is an architect and principal of Davids Killory Architecture.
René Davids, FAIA is an architect, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, and a principal of Davids Killory Architecture.