Gwathmey Siegel: buildings & projects 1965-2000 (Record no. 1541)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0-7893-0401-5
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency AIKTC-KRRC
Transcribing agency AIKTC-KRRC
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title ENG
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 720.92
Item number COL
Edition number DDC23
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gwathmey, Charles
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245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Gwathmey Siegel: buildings & projects 1965-2000
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st Ed
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Universe Publishing
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2000
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 240 Pages
Other physical details | Binding - Paperback |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Whether it's a house in the Hamptons, an addition to a famous museum, or a new building for an Ivy League campus, contemporary architecture doesn't get any more coolly, cleanly serviceable than Gwathmey Siegel, the large firm that since 1965 has executed some of the most high-profile private and institutional commissions in the United States (with a few abroad). Gwathmey Siegel's history of concise, user-friendly innovation is well reflected here, in this comely monograph of 26 residential, corporate, academic and museum/arts-related projects spanning 35 years; per custom, it should be a hernia-inducing 10-pound hardcover, but instead is a near-palmsized paperback that still manages to convey the sweep and scale of GS's work in its excellent full-color photography with succinct annotations by firm founder Charles Gwathmey. Appropriately, the fun kicks off with the now-famous house and nearby studio Gwathmey designed for his parents in the Hamptons' Amagansett in 1965. Its basic principles of several levels, volumes, and niches intricately carved into a basic cube would play out again and again in the firm's work, which always manages to cunningly incorporate all sorts of technical solutions and aesthetic charms into volumes whose outer limits possess the simple, geometric logic of buildings that children have long fashioned from a few wooden
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Personal name Collins, Brad
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Circulation School of Architecture School of Architecture General Stacks 23/03/2015 Medico's Book Aid 1650.00   720.92 COL A1595 20/06/2025 Books
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