Eric Owen Moss: Buildings and Projects 3 [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Richard Meier (Introduction)

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Publication Date: December 13, 2002

Eric Owen Moss has become a major force--nationally and internationally--in the field of architecture. Moss's unusual combinations of materials--wood, glass, wallboard, and metals--and his experiments with spatial layering have given rise to many complex and evocative structures. Since his rise to international prominence over the past decade, the award-winning Los Angeles-based architect has continued to invent form and space that defy conventional labels.

Among his best known works are Samitaur/Kodak in Los Angeles and several large on-going projects in Culvert City, which includes adaptive reuse, retail, and office buildings.

This book, following successful volumes 1 and 2 on Moss, considers mostly recent, built work including continuing projects in Los Angeles and Culvert City; the winning competition entry for the new Queens Museum of Art in New York; and important projects in Vienna, Dusseldorf, and St. Petersburg.

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About the Author

Eric Owen Moss opened his office in Los Angeles in 1973. In addition to practicing, he has taught at Harvard and Yale Universities and was recently appointed the director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999, and the Gold Metal from the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2001. His work has been widely exhibited, most recently in the Russian Pavilion at the 2002 Venice Biennale.

Richard Meier established his office in New York in 1963. He has received numerous prizes for his work, including the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 1984, the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1988, the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1997, and the Praemium Imperiale in 1997.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Rizzoli; 1st edition (December 13, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847822605
• ISBN-13: 978-0847822607
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,196,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Eric Owen Moss: Buildings and Projects 3, September 23, 2003

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This review is from: Eric Owen Moss: Buildings and Projects 3 (Hardcover)

In a brief introduction, Richard Meier contributes a keen appreciation of Moss, who represents the Dionysian spirit in architecture as expressively as the New York mandarin embodies the Apollonian. The roller coaster ride begins immediately after, racing through the latest installment of urban interventions in Culver City, and a flurry of unrealized projects from Ibiza to St Petersburg, nearly all sponsored or encouraged by the maverick developer Frederick Samitaur Smith. Much as one admires Smith's enlightened patronage, one wishes that other clients would also commission work from Moss, especially in LA, a place to which his work has a peculiar affinity.