Gwathmey Siegel Houses

by Goldberger, Paul; Eisenman, Peter; Gwathmey, Charles

• ISBN13: 9781580930154
• ISBN10: 1580930158
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-11
• Publisher: The Monacelli Press

Summary

The Gwathmey Siegel design process takes the genre of the house as central to the tradition of architecture and a point of departure for all other building types, directing its investigations of modernist principles toward such prestigious architectural commissions as the addition to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Baker Library for the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University, and the master plan and buildings for Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore. Gwathmey Siegel & Associates' approach both assumes and demonstrates the identity of the house as a formal conception of a structure, as well as an organization of program in relation to spaces. Each house is a test case that can be generalized and used to address fundamental architectural problems: history and context; site influences; arrival, procession, and circulation; scale and proportion; light; the relationship between public and private domains; architectural materials; and the technology of construction -- all of which are prioritized by research and interpretive analysis as tools for exploration and design.Gwathmey Siegel: Housespresents twenty-two of the firm's residential projects, from Charles Gwathmey's first house, completed for his parents in 1965, to more recent large-scale projects. This magnificent volume comprehensively documents each house with full-color and duotone photographs and detailed presentation drawings. In addition to generous illustrations and Gwathmey's personal commentary on each house,Gwathmey Siegel: Housesfeatures illuminating essays by architect Robert A. M. Stern and noted architecture critic Paul Goldberger.

Author Biography

Paul Goldberger is the architectural critic and a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(1)
Robert Siegel
Preface	7	(1)
Robert A.M. Stern
Introduction	8	(4)
Paul Goldberger
1965 Gwathmey Residence and Studio	12	(28)
1966 Straus Residence	40	(12)
1967 Sedecca Residence	52	(10)
1967 Goldberg Residence	62	(10)
1968 Cooper Residence	72	(12)
1970 Tolan Residence	84	(12)
1971 Cogan Residence	96	(26)
1972 Cohn Residence	122	(16)
1976 Haupt Residence	138	(18)
1976 Weitz Residence	156	(18)
1976 Benenson Residence	174	(14)
1977 Taft Residence	188	(16)
1979 de Menil Residence	204	(32)
1979 Viereck Residence	236	(10)
1983 Garey Residence	246	(16)
1985 Spielberg Residence	262	(18)
1985 Opel Residence	280	(24)
1986 Gimelstob Residence	304	(20)
1988 Oceanfront Residence	324	(24)
1990 Zumikon Residence	348	(26)
1993 San Onofre Residence	374	(26)
1993 Hilltop Residence	400	(64)
Photography Credits	464