Title & Author:

Verify in field : projects and conversations : Höweler + Yoon / Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon

Publication:

Zurich : Park Books, [2021]
©2021

Description:

359 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimile, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Book has special paperback binding with only one side fixed to spine
Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-359)
Verify in field -- What's the matter? -- Memorial to enslaved laborers at the University of Virginia -- Conversation with Adam Greenfield -- Means and methods -- Sean Collier Memorial -- 212 Stuart Street -- Coolidge Corner Theatre -- Sky Coarts -- Lithos Hotel -- Conversation with Nader Tehrani -- Going Public -- Downtown Crossing Amphitheater -- BSA Space -- MIT Museum -- Moongate Bridge -- Conversation with Kate Orff -- Under the weather -- Helio House -- Shadow Play -- Timber Stepwell -- Solar Veil -- FloatLab -- Conversation with Daniel Barber -- ...in the details -- Bridge House -- Oblique House -- Plus House -- Conversation with Ana Miljački -- Postscript: on posting.

Summary:

Höweler + Yoon Architecture, founded in 2001 and based in Boston, gained early praise for ephemeral and interactive public projects and today is recognized for striking works that combine conceptual imagination and technological sophistication. The firm's impressive body of work has expanded the scope of design beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and has won them numerous national and international awards. Verify in Field is Höweler + Yoon's second book. Its title derives from a notational convention on architectural drawings to indicate that the information is subject to unknown conditions in the field. The book highlights verification as an integral part of the design process and demonstrates it as a productive tool to test ideas and act on the world. For both disciplinary and contractual reasons, the instruments of design--drawings, models, and prototypes--operate on the world at a distance. Techniques of prototyping, measurement, feedback, negotiation, and intervention inform the diverse output of the studio. Verify in Field features recent designs by Höweler + Yoon, including such projects as the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia; a floating outdoor classroom in Philadelphia; the MIT Museum; and a pedestrian bridge in Shanghai's Expo Park. The book also examines the discipline's pressing questions, as they relate to verification, uncertainty, and agency, in a series of essays by Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon on topics that include means and methods, the public realm, energy and environments, the construction detail, and social media. These themes are echoed in conversations with collaborators, historians, and theorists: Adam Greeneld, Nader Tehrani, Kate Orff, Daniel Barber, and Ana Miljacki

ISBN:

9783038602248 (paperback)
3038602248 (paperback)

Subject:

Höweler, Eric, 1972-
Yoon, J. Meejin (Jeannie Meejin), 1972-
Yoon, J. Meejin 1972-
Höweler + Yoon Architecture/My Studio.
Architecture United States History 21st century.
Design United States History 21st century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Design États-Unis Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture History United States 21st century.
Design History United States 21st century.
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Design
United States.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Höweler, Eric, 1972- architect, writer of supplementary textual content.
Yoon, J. Meejin (Jeannie Meejin), 1972- architect, writer of supplementary textual content.
Höweler + Yoon Architecture/My Studio.

Projects and conversations : Höweler + Yoon

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315459
Call No.: 315459
Copy: 1
Status: Available