An
anthology of interviews with some of the finest architects and
designers in the world, this book offers an investigation into how place
and context affects critical design development in an architectural
site related program.
Architects
were shortlisted for this project for their particular (and sometimes
contrasting) modes of working with site specificity within European and
American contemporary architectural practice. All the architects
selected are working at an international level within their field and
display a high level of intelligence and sensibility within their
designs.
This book
offers the reader a chance to understand the deeper thinking of the
individual interviewees. This insight can enhance significantly an
understanding of some of the key issues in contemporary architectural
practice today.
The reader
gains an intimate portrait of the concerns, thoughts and feelings of
these architects as they reflect on their own practice in the midst of
their working challenges and successes. It reveals a more intricate
individually nuanced reading of site, meaning and context. It offers the
reader a series of studies in the form of interviews, which will
inspire future and current architects to consider issues of context in
greater depth.
About the author:
Karen Forbes is a Professor of Art, University of Edinburgh. Her research and practice focus on
the intersection between art, architecture, place and meaning with a
commitment to exploring new ways of realizing this through drawing,
speculative design, symbolic pavilions, actual
new buildings, photo-montage, computer generated imagery, augmented
images, virtual reality (oculus rift developer), App design and
development, edited and authored books, exhibition, installation and
visual communication for public engagement.
