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MATTER AND MIND IN ARCHITECTURE

MATTER AND MIND IN ARCHITECTURE

The 7th International Alvar Aalto Symposium

Pirkko Tuukkanen

This book summarizes the discussions at the 7th international symposium, which looked at post-modernism and the way it can sever symbols and forms from their original meaning.

Maybeck’s Landscapes: Drawing in Nature

Maybeck’s Landscapes: Drawing in Nature

Dianne Harris

Bernard Maybeck’s distinctive Arts and Crafts architecture defined the hillside houses and iconic public buildings of the San Francisco Bay Area in the early decades of the 20th century.

Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Annette Spiro

Though hardly known in the North American architecture community, Brazilian Paulo Mendes da Rocha is one of the most important Latin American architects of our time.

Modern Public Gardens

Modern Public Gardens

Robert Royston and The Suburban Park

Reuben M. Rainey and JC Miller

Among the first partners of Bay Area architect Garrett Eckbo was Robert Royston, a landscape architect who received the American Society of Landscape Architects’ highest medal in the 1980s at the peak of his career.