Winfried Nerdinger

Romana Schneider

Wilfried Wang

Deutschland

Analyzes the impact of cultural interventions on urban society from the point of view of artists, architects, and scientists. Does culture today still function as a guiding principle, or does it merely serve as a catalyst for spectacular buildings? Are the creative and cultural sectors the industries of the future in postindustrial societies?

City

Culture

Peter Celsing

The Architecture of Peter Celsing

Since 1936, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has set the standard for corporate design practice, producing some of the most iconic buildings of the century and shaping cities throughout the world. The SOM Journal, a new, small-format publication, takes stock of the firm's most recent work in progress and brings SOM's current design research to light. Contributors include the artist Jenny Holzer, Ove/Arup & Partners engineer Cecil Balmond, the architectural critic and historian Kenneth Frampton and architect Kesse Reiser of Reiser + Umemoto. The amply illustrated volume, designed by renowned Dutch graphic designers Studio COMA, offers a critical look at five current projects and includes an interview with retired SOM partner Walter Netsch, designer of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Recent Projects

SOM Journal

Kevin Alter

Two masterpieces of architecture in Chile are presented in this first volume of the O'Neil Ford Duograph series: a house facing the Pacific Ocean on the spectacular Chilean coast and the new crypt for the Cathedral of Santiago de Chile - one a house for the living and one for the dead, both marking the cycle of life.

House at Punta Pite, 2003-06, Smiljan Radic : Crypt in the Cathedral of Santiago de Chile, 1999-2006, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce

O'Neil Ford Duograph 1, Chilé

Álvaro Siza

Alvaro Siza; Stadtskizzen

Wilfried Wang

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