9781606064511-1606064517-Outside In: The Architecture of Smith and Williams

Outside In: The Architecture of Smith and Williams

ISBN-13: 9781606064511
ISBN-10: 1606064517
Edition: 1
Author: Alan Hess, Jocelyn Gibbs, Anthony Denzer, Lilian Pfaff, Debi Howell-Ardila
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Getty Publications
Format: Hardcover 192 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781606064511
ISBN-10: 1606064517
Edition: 1
Author: Alan Hess, Jocelyn Gibbs, Anthony Denzer, Lilian Pfaff, Debi Howell-Ardila
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Getty Publications
Format: Hardcover 192 pages

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Outside In: The Architecture of Smith and Williams (ISBN-13: 9781606064511 and ISBN-10: 1606064517), written by authors Alan Hess, Jocelyn Gibbs, Anthony Denzer, Lilian Pfaff, Debi Howell-Ardila, was published by Getty Publications in 2015. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Individual Architects & Firms (Architecture) books. You can easily purchase or rent Outside In: The Architecture of Smith and Williams (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Individual Architects & Firms books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.56.

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From 1946 to 1973, Whitney Rowland Smith and his partner, Wayne Williams, designed more than 800 projects, from residential, commercial, and public buildings to housing tracts, multi-use complexes, and parks and master plans for cities. Working in the wake of the first generation of avant-garde architects in Southern California and riding the postwar building boom, their firm, Smith and Williams, developed a pragmatic modernism that, through remarkable planning and design, integrated landscapes with buildings and decisively shaped the modern vocabulary of architecture in Los Angeles.

Through a breathtaking array of images, Outside In unveils the core of Smith and Williams’s architectural practice. Their most influential designs, the authors show, are compositions of balanced opposites: shelter and openness, private and public, restraint and exuberance, light and shadow. Smith and Williams created spaciousness in their buildings by layering spaces and manipulating the relationship between structure and landscape. This spaciousness expressed modern ideas about the relationship of architecture to environment, of building to
site, and, ultimately, of outside to in.

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