Room for artifacts : the architecture of WOJR / by William O'Brien Jr. & WOJR Organization for Architecture.

Main entry:

O'Brien, William, Jr., author.

Title & Author:

Room for artifacts : the architecture of WOJR / by William O'Brien Jr. & WOJR Organization for Architecture.

Publication:

Zurich : Park Books, [2016]

Description:

239 pages : chielfy illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Making room / William O'Brien, Jr. -- Part I. [Artifacts: designs] : Labyrinth ; Mask ; Fortress ; Cloister ; Cottage ; Church ; Chamber ; Twins ; Bust ; Moulding ; Five & one ; Seven ; Keep ; Shed ; Totems ; Dwelling -- New or perfect / John McMorrough -- Part II. [Artifacts: plans] -- Packed / Dora Epstein Jones -- Part III. [Artifacts: photos] -- Control, realized / Nader Tehrani.

Summary:

Room for Artifacts' contains a collection of sixteen architectural artifacts a mask, a church, a labyrinth, a dwelling, a bust, and a series of totems, among others designed by WOJR: Organization for Architecture, based in Cambridge, MA. The work is presented three times throughout the book in conceptual drawings, architectural drawings, and images. Certain characteristics recur such as symmetry, frontality, figurality, proportionality, flatness and depth, outlining WOJR's preoccupation with fundamental aspects of architectural form that are rich in historical precedent. The new book carves a space for discourse around the role of architectural representation in a contemporary context. The featured work is evidence of WOJR's belief that every line drawn is simultaneously an opportunity to invoke aspects of ideologies embedded in lines drawn by architects of the past, as well as to express a progressive agenda of a forward-looking body of work.

ISBN:

9783038600275 (hd. bd.)
303860027X (hd. bd.)

Subject:

WOJR, Organization for Architecture Catalogs.
WOJR Organization for Architecture
Architecture, Modern 21st century Designs and plans.
Architecture, American 21st century Designs and plans.
Architectural firms Massachusetts Cambridge Catalogs.
Architectural design Catalogs.
Architecture Details Catalogs.
Shapes Catalogs.
Architecture 21e siècle Dessins et plans.
Architecture américaine 21e siècle Dessins et plans.
Agences d'architecture Catalogues Massachusetts Cambridge.
Design architectural Catalogues.
Architecture Détails Catalogues.
Formes Catalogues.
Architectural design.
Architectural firms.
Architecture, American.
Architecture Details.
Architecture, Modern.
Shapes.
Architektur
Architektenbüro
Massachusetts Cambridge.

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Architectural drawings.
Catalogs.
Designs and plans.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

WOJR, Organization for Architecture, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293593
Call No.: BIB 238701
Status: Available

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