| Description |
242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Essays. Process : searching for the beginning ; Architectural photography : the familiar image ; Client and architect : design dialogues ; Atmosphere : the value of place -- Objects in landscape. Baron House ; Sackler Crossing ; Martyrs Pavilion ; Tetsuka House -- Sacred space. Monastery of Nový Dvůr ; Monastery of Sept-Fons ; St Moritz Church -- New York residences. 50 Gramercy Park North ; Schrager Penthouse ; Designing the home -- Belgian Apartments. Old Town Apartment ; North Sea Apartment -- Unbuilt projects. Moutfort House ; Beverly Hills House -- Sloop & Ketch. B60 ; Baracuda -- Spatial interventions. Leçons du Thoronet ; Chroma ; Calvin Klein 40th anniversary, hight line ; Stone House -- Houses in Italy. Montemaggio Houses ; Casa delle Bottere |
| Summary |
John Pawson is an architect and designer whose work combines an essential simplicity with a keen attention to the details of everyday life and human experience. His pared-down yet luxurious houses and art galleries were his first projects to gain international attention, and his work has since included Calvin Klein's flagship store in New York, airport lounges for Cathay Pacific, and a kitchen for Obumex. In the last decade, the scope of his designs has broadened from objects and interiors to include houses, monasteries, pavilions and boats. This change in scale has given his office the opportunity to refine its minimalist aesthetic and further develop its ideas of a fundamental architecture based on the qualities of space, proportion, light and materials |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Pawson, John, 1949- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Architectural criticism.
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Architectural practice, International.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Modern -- 21st century.
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| Author |
Pawson, John, 1949-
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Design Museum (London, England)
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| LC no. |
2010537326 |
| ISBN |
9780714857480 (hbk.) |
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