Suyama: A Complex Serenity - Rilegato

Hildebrand, Grant

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ISBN 10: 0295990813 ISBN 13: 9780295990811

Casa editrice: Univ of Washington Pr, 2011

Riassunto

George Suyama began his architectural practice in Seattle in 1971. His early career is marked by a number of notable designs in the contemporaneous wood idiom of the region. Over time, however,Suyama developed an architecture characterized by a search for minimalist simplicity, a paradoxical architecture of intense, even exciting, tranquility.

In 2002, he and partners Ric Peterson and Jay Deguchi established Suyama Peterson Deguchi. Their firm has built a distinguished reputation by means of designs influenced by the immediate region and bySuyama's ancestral Japan, which are intimately related to site and executed with an astonishing finesse of detail. Above all, their architecture reflectsSuyama's quest to eliminate what he calls "visual noise," a quest that has yielded not visual silence but a kind of visual music. Architectural elements are distilled to a purity analogous to that of a musical tone, and relationships between those elements are as pure and artistically rich as the mathematics of music.

In Suyama: A Complex Serenity, Grant Hildebrand introduces the man and his work, discussing relevant aspects ofSuyama's life, the influences that have shaped his beliefs, and twenty of his built and unbuilt projects that illuminate the development of his remarkable art and craft. Included also are appendices that illustrateSuyama's deep and long-standing involvement with the arts and product design.

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L'autore:

Grant Hildebrand is a University of Washington professor emeritus of architecture and art history and author of seven books on architecture, includingThe Wright Space: Pattern and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses and Frank Lloyd Wright's Palmer House. He is a recipient of the Washington Governor's Writers Award for work of literary merit and lasting value.

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• Editore: Univ of Washington Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0295990813
• ISBN 13: 9780295990811
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 167