Figure/ground : a design coversation [sic] with Scott Johnson and Bill Fain / Morris Newman, editor ; introduction by Joseph Giovannini.

Main entry:

Johnson, Scott, 1951-

Title & Author:

Figure/ground : a design coversation [sic] with Scott Johnson and Bill Fain / Morris Newman, editor ; introduction by Joseph Giovannini.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Balcony Press, 2003.

Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:
Reconstructed modernists / Joseph Giovannini -- The literal, the abstract, and a case for deep structure -- Sustainability : nature and tradition -- DNA of the city : improvisation and the urban grid -- Control and consensus : is it architecture, urban design, or just art? -- Centering, fragments, and the definition of place -- Building for the public life.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

1890449237
9781890449230

Subject:

Johnson, Scott, 1951-
Fain, William H., Jr.
Johnson Fain Partners.
American Architects.
American architectural Firms.
Architectural Design (discipline)
Architecture (object genre) United States California 1990-2010.
Architecture (object genre) 1990-2010.

Form/genre:

Interviews.

Added entries:

Fain, William H., Jr.
Newman, Morris.
Giovannini, Joseph.

Figure/ground, a design conversation with Scott Johnson and Bill Fain

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232388
Call No.: NA44.J664.A35 2003
Status: Available

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