Jones, Partners: Architecture

topics

Publishers

Architecture

ISBN: 9781568987002
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 400 pages
21,6 x 27,9 cm
colour/black & white
August 2007
€45,00 (excl. VAT)

Jones, Partners: Architecture

El Segundo

Jones, Partners: Architecture

For more than fifteen years, Jones, Partners: Architecture has dedicated itself to innovative, iconoclastic architectural projects. Picking up where their 1998 book, Instrumental Form, left off, Jones, Partners: Architecture presents an overview of the work created from their office in El Segundo, California, over the last decade.

Whether competition schemes for the Grand Egyptian Museum or a radical redevelopment of San Francisco’s Union Square, or built designs such as the San Jose Repertory Theater, Jones, Partners: Architecture (J,P:A) approaches architecture as more than simple form and program; it is a fluid and interactive experience. Mies van der Rohe once said, “I’d rather be good than interesting.” The sentiment suits J,P:A well, as their work highlights the difference between simple building and true architecture; form and function are considered from every angle and pushed to new, unprecedented heights.