New Classicists Appleton Associates Architects

"Appleton & Associates Architects features a selection of projects by the firm, including a working olive ranch in California, a grand estate in Los Angeles inspired by a Renaissance Tuscan-style villa, a quintessential 'Hollywood' house that includes a glamorous pool pavilion and of course a superb staircase to make the all-important entrance, and a writer's pavilion in Connecticut that would charm any writer."--BOOK JACKET.

For those interested in contemporary permutations of neo-classical architecture, this volume offers a photo essay of the work of 14 architectural firms. Among them are Robert Adam Architects Ltd, Norman Davenport Askins, John Blatteau Associates, Fairfax & Sammons, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Michael G. Imber, and Porphyrios Associates. The build

Marking the centennial of the 1916 establishment of a professional program, Pedagogy and Place is the definitive text on the history of the Yale School of Architecture. Robert A. M. Stern, current dean of the school, and Jimmy Stamp examine its growth and change over the years, and they trace the impact of those who taught or studied there, as well as the architecturally significant buildings that housed the program, on the evolution of architecture education at Yale. Owing to the impressive number of notable practitioners who have attended or been affiliated with the school, this book also contributes a history, beyond Yale, of the architecture profession in the twentieth century. Featuring extensive archival research and illuminating firsthand accounts from alumni, faculty, and administrators, this well-rounded and engaging narrative is richly illustrated with historic photos of the school and its studios, images of student work, and important architectural achievements on and off campus.

An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty. Architecture is both setting for our everyday lives and public art form—but it remains mysterious to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his architectural writing, answers our most fundamental questions about how good—and not-so-good—buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he takes us behind the scenes, revealing how architects as different as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create their designs. He teaches us how to "read" plans, how buildings respond to their settings, and how the smallest detail—of a stair balustrade, for instance—can convey an architect's vision. Ranging widely from a war memorial in London to an opera house in St. Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architect's private retreat in downtown Princeton, How Architecture Works, explains the central elements that make up good building design. It is an enlightening humanist's toolkit for thinking about the built environment and seeing it afresh. "Architecture, if it is any good, speaks to all of us," Rybczynski writes. This revelatory book is his grand tour of architecture today.

- The Classicist No. 15, focused upon Southern California, is dedicated to presenting the best in scholarship related to the classical architectural tradition in this region The Classicist is an annual journal dedicated to the classical tradition in architecture and the allied arts. Focused on Southern California, the Classicist No. 15 explores the region's rich architectural history as well as contemporary examples of classical design through professional and student portfolios and academic articles authored by leaders within the field. Contributors include Guest Editor Marc Appleton of Appleton Partners LLP; Stefanos Polyzoides of Moule & Polyzoides; Bret Parsons of Pacific Union International; Elizabeth A. Logan of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West; and Robert Winter, former Professor of History of Ideas at Occidental College. Contents: 1.) Letter from the Editor by Marc Appleton; 2.) Preamble: The Panama-California Exposition of 1915 by Marc Appleton; 3.) Bertram Goodhue and the Architecture of Caltech, 1915 to 1939 by Stefanos Polyzoides; 4.) Southern California's American Riviera: Spanish Mediterranean Residential Architecture, 1920s-1930s by Bret Parsons; 5.) Mythologies of the Suburban City Beautiful: Palos Verdes of the 1920s by Elizabeth Logan; 6.) Myron Hunt at Occidental College by Robert Winter; 7.) Civic Architecture in Southern California: Pasadena City Hall and The Santa Barbara County Courthouse by Marc Appleton; 8.) Professional Portfolio; 9.) Academic Portfolio; 10.) Appendices; 11.) Sponsors.

This collection of houses illustrates a splendid diversity of stylistic approaches and range of creative possibilities. An obvious love of the traditions of architecture is evident in each one - no mater what the historical precedent or geographic location.

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