Morphosis: Buildings and Projects 1993–1997
Lorraine Wild Design, Los Angeles, California, 1999
Description
This is the third “monograph” that I have designed with Morphosis, and in the time between the second book (1992) and this one (1997) the Morphosis office had revised the way it worked by stopping creating drawings for buildings conventionally, and going completely “digital.” The only conventional images (on paper) to work with were preliminary sketches and photographs of a few study models and a few existing built buildings. We wanted to create a process that would allow the architects, who now design and present almost simultaneously, a way to determine the visual explication of projects. The first 256 pages of the book were initially created as one long drawing, conceived of as a continuous “accordion” created by the architects in a variety of CAD programs, which were then imported into Quark, where the graphic designers added typographic information on top of the architects files. Writings about the buildings (and reproductions of conventional photographic images) are attached to the end of the drawing in a relatively conventional set of appendices.
Credits
- Design firm
- Lorraine Wild Design
- Creative directors
- Lorraine Wild, Thom Mayne
- Designers
- Lorraine Wild, Scott Lee, Ana Llorent-Thurik, Robyn Sambo, Thom Mayne, Bele Cucke
- Production coordinator
- Belinda Hellinger
- Authors
- Thom Mayne, Anthony Vidler, Tony Robins
- Editors
- David Morton (Rizzoli), Janet Sager, Alison Blythe Mayne (Morphosis), John Cara, George Rand, Tony Robins, Val Warke
- Trim size
- 8 1/2 x 11 inches
- Pages
- 416
- Quantity printed
- 15,000
- Compositor
- Lorraine Wild Design
- Typefaces
- Scala, Scala Sans, Monotype Grotesque
- Printer/binder
- Sfera Srl
- Paper
- 150 grams matte coated and vellum
- Binding method
- Smythe-sewn paperback, cover drawn on, bull gatefold flaps with clear acetate jacket.
- Endpapers
- 150 grams matte coated
- Publisher/client
- Rizzoli International Publications