Site Specific explores the capacity of architecture to interact with the particular issues of site; the reading of layers of histories, different modes of use, geography, culture and society. It has grown out of editor Karen Forbes conviction in the importance of complex readings of place being incorporated into the design of architectural space. Included is a set of interviews which explore the different perspectives of a number of key architects working from Europe and America, allowing the reader to get a sense of the varied approaches and priorities which each architect has at the core of their work. Through an exploration of a number of recent projects and competition bids, a picture is built up both of the dynamic connections in these architects work and an understanding of how the various approaches impact on their working methods. Contributors include Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Roisin Heneghan, Bjarne Mastenbroek, Bjarke Ingels, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Patrik Schumacher, Harry Gugger, Kjetil Thorsen and Craig Dykers. Forbes' interviews offer a series of critical, sometimes polemical, views on how individual designs are conceived and realised, offering a different set of priorities from the modernist and postmodern stances. The book considers both the architects assessment of current projects and the future impact of their work on particular sites.
- ISBN10 1908967366
- ISBN13 9781908967367
- Publish Date 1 August 2013
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 1 September 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Artifice Press
- Imprint Artifice Books on Architecture
- Format Paperback
- Language English