Saee, Michele.

Michele Saee : buildings + projects / introduction by Thom Mayne ; essays by Aris Janigian, Frédéric Migayrou, and Michele Saee.

New York : Rizzoli : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1997.

160 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm

"This provocatively designed first monograph on Saee showcases 25 projects in the Los Angeles area, including Angeli Trattoria on Melrose Avenue; two Ecru clothing stores; Design Express, a high-end furniture store; a custom jewelry store; a 20-unit apartment complex; nine private houses; and Saee's furniture designs. Also reproduced here are Saee's evocative "sketches of space" and his accompanying essay on the fundamental link between drawing and the conception of architecture."
"Michele Saee is a young, widely published Los Angeles-based architect who trained in Italy and worked for the renowned avant-garde firm Morphosis; he started his own practice in 1985. His designs for high-style restaurants and clothing stores in the Los Angeles area respond to the region's dominant automobile culture and indoor-outdoor lifestyle: attention-getting facades with large glass planes and steel sculptural fragments transform standard strip malls and warehouses, and interiors of curved walls and exposed trusses, natural wood, and industrial materials reflect a uniquely Southern California approach to contemporary architecture."

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Saee, Michele Themes, motives.
Saee, Michele Thèmes, motifs.
Saee, Michele
Building (Architectural firm)
Building (Firme)
Architecture, Postmodern California, Southern.
Architecture postmoderne Californie (Sud)
Architecture, Postmodern
Themes, motives
Architecture, Postmodern California.
Architects United States 20th century.
Southern California

Essays.
Photobooks

Janigian, Aris.
Migayrou, Frédéric.

Michele Saee, buildings plus projects

Location: Library main 200054
Call No.: NA44.S127.23 M5 1997
Status: Available