1970s Illustrated Small Quarto, Christopher Woodward's Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - 1 Book

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Woodward, Christopher. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970, first edition. Part of the Library of Contemporary … Read more Woodward, Christopher. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970, first edition. Part of the Library of Contemporary Architects series. English text. sm. 4to; 136 pp. Blue cloth, gilt stamped title on spine cover, text interspersed with 73 black-and-white photographs by Yukio Futagawa, foxed upper leaf edge, glossy black-and-white dust jacket with color photo illustration, slight edge wear. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

Measures: 8.25 x 9.25 x .25 inches.
Approximate weight: 1 pounds.

Provenance: Ex. Diana and Marc Goldstein (1935-2015), SOM Design and Consulting Partner (1970-1991), responsible for some of SOM's most important architectural and urban planning accomplishments of the 20th century. Unmarked.

Our era's built environment is not designed by even the most talented architects alone, but within the organization of large research and design offices that utilize the knowledge of a host of specialists, data storage, and computers. This volume presents the creations of SOM, one of the most significant large offices, which has become world-famous through its work and is exemplary in its structure. Structural and aesthetic analyses, as well as original photos provided by the company, give a true picture of the traceable development from the abstract glass prisms of bone-skin architecture conceived in the spirit of Mies van der Rohe to the new, box-structured skyscrapers over 100 stories high and the light, ornate buildings made with other tools of advanced technology. See less