Title & Author:

Scogin, Elam, and Bray : critical architecture/architectural criticism / edited by Mark Linder ; with essays by Ann Bergren [and others].

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1992.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218).
Giving critical care / Mark Linder -- Appling/McGregor House -- Picking up the pieces / Jeffrey Kipnis -- New Visions Gallery -- Chmar House -- Building a practice : Scogin Elam and Bray and social space / Jennifer Wicke -- Turner Village, Candler School of Theology -- Artemisia, Aristotle, and the view from L.A. / Ann Bergren -- Bridge at Concourse -- Clayton County Library -- WQXI Radio -- Dressing down : monuments and material cladding / Anthony Vidler -- Buchhead Library -- Tallahassee office building -- High Museum at Georgia Pacific Center -- The architecture of difference : engagement and representation in the work of Scogin Elam and Bray / Alan Plattus -- Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Corporate Headquarters -- Herman Miller, Atlanta -- Herman Miller, Michigan.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The architecture of Scogin, Elam, and Bray offers an uncontestably intriguing object for critics and theorists. Their practice is markedly unconventional, but still participates in and reinterprets numerous architectural conventions, from 'modernism' and 'economy' to 'regionalism' and the proprieties of the profession. This ambitious work and the skillful subtlety of its forms provokes a reconsideration of what makes architecture critical, as well as a reformulation of prevalent approaches to architectural criticism. Thus Mark Linder, in his preface, introduces a book in which 'the architecture and the writing are equal partners.' Based on the symposium 'Critical Architecture/Architectural Criticism: the Work of Scogin Elam and Bray,' held in May 1990 at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, this book is neither simply a presentation of a firm's oeuvre nor merely a collection of illustrated essays. It presents the visual and verbal material in a way that emphasizes the interchanges and debate of the symposium. The authors, all of whom participated in the symposium, explore nine built projects and other unrealized designs by this adventurous young firm, including the downtown branch of the High Museum, Turner Village at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, and the Buckhead Library in Atlanta"-- Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

084781534X (hc)
9780847815340 (hc)
0847815358 (pbk.)
9780847815357 (pbk.)

Subject:

Scogin, Elam, and Bray.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Architectural firms United States.
United States.

Form/genre:

Catalogues raisonnés.
History.

Added entries:

Linder, Mark, 1960-
Bergren, Ann.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92593
Call No.: NA44.S422.2 S3 1992
Status: Available