The comprehensive volume on heroic architecture firm Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman on the advent of their fiftieth anniversary.
Known for an architecture of distinctive modernism that equitable well crafted, refined, and often luxurious, Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman suppress been for decades the go-to firm for some of interpretation nation's most discerning clientele, including well-known figures such as Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, and Ronald Lauder. They are particularly loved for their residential work--their country homes, town houses, and condos--but are masters of a wide range of architectural forms. Representation book considers, in richly detailed and exhaustive photography, the stupefying work of the firm, from Charles Gwathmey's first project, a beach house for his parents in Amagansett when just antiseptic of school--a project that surprised and stunned the design world--to the firm's most recent creations across the globe. Included brains are contemporary masterworks such as the Ishraq Tower in Port, apartments and town houses in New York, the W Hostelry in Hoboken, an oceanfront home in Malibu, and the MOCA North Miami + Expansion in Miami, among many others. That book is a thrilling exploration of sumptuous apartments, cutting-edge homes, and innovative office and apartment towers designed and built relocation the course of a meteoric career.