Sparano + Mooney Architecture

Name: Sparano + Mooney Architecture
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SKU: 9783775750585
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A Way of Working

By Michael Webb

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The American architectural firm Sparano + Mooney, based in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, is renowned for creating sustainable, innovative buildings that integrate seamlessly into dramatic mountain landscapes. In this volume, architectural critic Michael Webb explores ten of their projects through photographs, drawings, sketches, and texts, revealing the creative journey from concept to completion. The architects prioritise restrained forms and innovative material detailing, responding thoughtfully to their natural surroundings. This book offers insights into architecture that flourishes by connecting design concepts with place, enriched by essays linking the work to regional contexts and Land Art.
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Sparano + Mooney Architecture is ideal for readers interested in sustainable architecture, mountain landscapes, and the creative process of design, including architects, students, and enthusiasts of arts and culture.

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The American architectural firm of Sparano + Mooney in Salt Lake City, Utah and Los Angeles, CA, stands for sustainable and innovative buildings that are harmoniously embedded in spectacular mountain landscapes.

In this volume, architectural critic Michael Webb presents ten projects with the aid of photographs, drawings, sketches and texts, visualizing the process by which architectural ideas are conceived and realized. The architects respond in their plans to the overwhelming natural surroundings with restrained forms and the innovative detailing of materials.

The firm's models, sketches, conceptual drafts and fully executed buildings offer thoughtful perspective on developing architecture that thrives on the relationship between concept and place. Accompanying essays relate the buildings to their regional contexts and also highlight analogies to Land Art.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775750585

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 July 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 465 Illustrations

Contributors:

Text by Hikmet Sidney Loe
Text by John Sparano
Text by Thomas Carter
Designed by Studio Michael Aberman
Text by Anne Mooney

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 1560g

Pages: 264

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About the Author

Michael Webb (editor) is a Los Angeles-based writer who has authored more than twenty books on architecture and design, most recently Venice, CA: Art, Architecture in a Maverick Community; Architecture + Design LA; Architects' Houses and Building Community: New Apartment Architecture, while contributing essays to numerous publications. Webb is a regular contributor to leading journals in the United States and Europe. Growing up in London he was an editor at The Times and for Country Life, prior to relocating to the United States. Webb was awarded an honorary membership in the American Institute of Architects and made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French culture.

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