Title & Author:

Radical practice : the work of Marlon Blackwell Architects / Peter MacKeith, Jonathan Boelkins, editors.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2022]
©2022

Description:

509 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
In title, "Radical" appears in mirrored text.
Includes bibliographical references.
Being There / Frank Harmon -- Blessings Golf Clubhouse -- Refreshing Authenticity / Robert Ivy -- Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design -- The Shapeliness of Place / Anne Marie Duvall Decker -- Porchdog -- The Gospel According to Marlon / John Ronan -- Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church -- On Being Rooted in Place / Within a Culture of Mobility / Robert McCarter -- Gentry Public Library -- Regionalism and Its Discontents / Edward R. Ford -- Crystal Bridges Museum Store -- Resistances / Brian MacKay-Lyons -- CO-OP Ramen -- Generosity: Working with Marlon Blackwell / Mary Miss -- Structures of Design / Guy Nordenson -- Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion -- Objects in the Landscape / James Corner -- Shelby Farms Park -- Seeing Red Three Ways / Julie Snow -- Harvey Pediatric Clinic -- Where's the Front of the Building? / Jennifer Bonner -- Lamplighter School Innovation Lab -- Making Boxes / Margie Ruddick -- Rural / Urban / Maurice Cox -- Marygrove Early Education Center -- A Campus with Roots and Wings / Clayton Marsh -- Thaden School.
Foreword: ordinary/extraordinary / Andrew Feear -- Editor's notes: radical practice / Peter MacKeith -- Editor's notes: a conditional manifesto / Jonathan Boelkins -- In the midst of the Ozarks / Thom Mayne -- The unknown, the unbuilt, and the possible -- Resonances / Tim Hursley -- A few have legs, some have wings / David Buege -- wunderkammer / David Buege and Marlon Blackwell -- Afterword: the heart of the matter / Tod Williams and Billie Tsien -- Foundations and principles: notes on an expanded practice / Marlon Blackwell.

Summary:

"Radical Practice celebrates the extraordinary, award-winning designs of Marlon Blackwell Architects, an Arkansas-based firm with a focus on public and civic projects that are located outside of the established centers of architectural culture. The distinct and original work of Marlon Blackwell Architects has produced iconic and award-winning designs across building types, scales, and budgets. Located in Arkansas, the firm merges the universal language of architecture and the particulars of place, a process that has resulted in a distinguished body of work, from schools to parks and beyond. Celebrating thirty years of practice by the 2020 AIA Gold Medal-winning architect Marlon Blackwell, this survey of more than a dozen buildings pairs detailed drawings and the vivid photographs of renowned photographer Timothy Hursley with essays by leading designers, planners, and artists. Contributors include Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, architects of the Obama Presidential Center; Maurice Cox, Chicago's city planning director; Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, James Corner, landscape architect of the High Line, and environmental artist Mary Miss among many others--all of whom attest to Blackwell's reputation as a leading voice of his generation."--Publisher's webpage.

ISBN:

9781616898953 (hardcover)
161689895X (hardcover)

Subject:

Blackwell, Marlon, 1956-
Marlon Blackwell Architect.
Architecture Ozark Mountains.
Architecture Ozark, Monts.
Architecture
United States Ozark Mountains

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
Catalogues.

Added entries:

MacKeith, Peter B., 1959- editor.
Boelkins, Jonathan, editor.
Blackwell, Marlon, 1956- architect.
Marlon Blackwell Architect, architect.

Lacidar practice

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315734
Call No.: 315734
Copy: 1
Status: Available