Alexander Gorlin: Buildings and Projects - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847820122 ISBN 13: 9780847820122

Publisher: Rizzoli, 1997

Synopsis

In only ten years of practice, New York-based architect Alexander Gorlin has established a prominent reputation as the designer of more than 20 residences for high-profile clients in the media and fashion industries. In his work Gorlin investigates the dialogue between architecture and landscape, exploring the affinities between classicism and modernism, in materials ranging from the sensual to the industrial.

The first monograph on Gorlin showcases 28 projects with stunning color photography and includes townhouses, private houses, and apartments, urban planning studies for Battery City Park and the Tribeca areas of Manhattan, and entries for the Prado Museum and Berlin Spreebogen competitions.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Goldberger is the Chief Cultural Correspondent of the New York Times and an award-winning architecture and culture critic.

Vincent Scully is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University.

Charles Gwathmey is a founding partner of the prominent New York firm Swathmey Siegel & Associates Architects.

Review:

"If one teaches long enough and lives long enough, inevitably one's kids appear on the scene. Alex Gorlin was not my actual student at Yale, but I felt his presence. Now is a practicing architect...bursting out of the gate with an architectural life full of ideas." --Frank Gehry

"Alex Gorlin is that rarest of creatures-the reasonable architect...Talent of high order permeates these buildings...they stand for judgement without the protection of formal obfuscation or the armature of an ideology, and reveal the talent all the more clearly." --Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0847820122
• ISBN 13: 9780847820122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160