Another title in Images exciting range of Designing with… series
Exceptional full colour photographs
Demonstrates the evolution of the use of stone
Provides up-to-date methods of fabrication and installation
Product of many years of original work producing enduring landmark buildings.
Stone’s richness of texture, colour, and finish cannot be found in other materials; it is senuous to the touch, striking to the eye, and pleasing to the soul. Malcolm Holzman’s Stone Work demonstrates not only that the application of stone can still result in architecture unlike that created from other materials, but also that it can be of more interest today than it has been in the recent past. His objective is to raise public awareness about the material and to inlfuence architects to explore this natural building material.
Stone is not a vanishing resource, rather the opposite is true. However, making architecture with this material often requires putting aside accepted strictures and finding a means to work with, and understand, its physical qualities.
Stone Work features vignettes about observing antiquities as well as commonplace structures, and about manufacturing stone and making buildings. It focuses on the role stone can play in making exceptional architecture.
The book features many of Holzman’s highly acclaimed, award-winning projects, such as the Louis Stokes Wing of the Cleveland Public Library, the West Wing of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the WCCO-TV Communications Center in Minneapolis.
Working on the principle that the continued evolution of stone buildings will lead to architecture’s possessing a full and consistent meaning for our times, Malcolm Holzman strives to take advantage of current methods for fabrication and installation - along with reinvigorated existing ones.
Format:
300 x 223 mm, 210 pp., 233 col.illus., 59 b&w drawings, hardback
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