Main entry:

Morris, Alison (Architecture and design writer)

Title & Author:

John Pawson : plain space / by Alison Morris.

Publication:

London ; New York : Phaidon, 2010.

Description:

242 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Essays. Process : searching for the beginning ; Architectural photography : the familiar image ; Client and architect : design dialogues ; Atmosphere : the value of place -- Objects in landscape. Baron House ; Sackler Crossing ; Martyrs Pavilion ; Tetsuka House -- Sacred space. Monastery of Nový Dvůr ; Monastery of Sept-Fons ; St Moritz Church -- New York residences. 50 Gramercy Park North ; Schrager Penthouse ; Designing the home -- Belgian Apartments. Old Town Apartment ; North Sea Apartment -- Unbuilt projects. Moutfort House ; Beverly Hills House -- Sloop & Ketch. B60 ; Baracuda -- Spatial interventions. Leçons du Thoronet ; Chroma ; Calvin Klein 40th anniversary, hight line ; Stone House -- Houses in Italy. Montemaggio Houses ; Casa delle Bottere.

Summary:

John Pawson (b.1949) is an architect and designer whose exceptional work combines an essential simplicity with a keen attention to the details of everyday life and human experience. In the last decade, the scope of his designs has broadened from objects and interiors to include houses, monasteries, pavilions and boats. This change in scale has given his office the opportunity to refine its minimalist aesthetic and further develop its ideas of a fundamental architecture based on the qualities of space, proportion, light and materials. In Plain Space, author Alison Morris presents both this recent body of work and earlier projects from the perspective of someone who has had unique access to the work and archives of the office. In thematic essays and narrative project descriptions she examines the firm's working processes, relationship with clients, and approach to design. Filled with exquisite photographs and detailed drawings, Plain Space will be the next must-have book for fans of John Pawson and a perfect introduction to his work for anyone interested in the absolute best of contemporary design.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780714857480 (hardcover)
0714857483 (hardcover)

Subject:

Pawson, John, 1949- Criticism and interpretation.
Pawson, John, 1949-
Architectural criticism.
Critique d'architecture.
architectural criticism.
Architecture and Planning.
Arkitektur.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Pawson, John, 1949-

Plain space

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270108
Call No.: BIB 202781
Status: Available