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Contents ORO Editions 2 AR+D Publishing 100 Goff Books 138 Distribution Contacts 159 Sales and Contacts 160 Follow us at: @oroeditions oroeditions @oroeditions This catalogue is also available to view at: ORO Editions www.oroeditions.com Applied Research + Design Publishing www.appliedresearchanddesign.com Goff Books www.goffbooks.com Cover: From Inspired by Place, provided for ORO Editions © 2019 Inside Cover: From Chinese Brutalism Today, provided for ORO Editions © 2019 3 ORO EDITIONS Fall 2019 Over the last 18 years ORO Editions has been prominently recognized for its consistently innovative achievements in the design publishing community. 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TC Cuadernos Gathering is a collection of fourteen projects that exemplify how architecture This book documents a collection of drawings, photographs has the power to bring people together by design, allowing them to engage of building sites and completed buildings, as well as images with one another in new ways, to generate ideas, share their passions of construction details, according to a new analytical reading and build communities. The projects included in this volume range greatly based on the role of tectonics in the definition of an avant-garde in size, function, and aesthetic, from the High Meadow Dwellings at architectural language obtained through the use of exposed Fallingwater to the Newport Beach Civic Center and Park to Apple Stores conglomerates (concrete, rammed earth, and prefabricated located around the world. components). Chinese Brutalism Today addresses academics, the Chinese and Western professional sphere, as well as companies operating in the construction sector. Inspired by Place 1 CLB Architects From transitional to modern, each CLB project, including the ten featured John Marx’s watercolors are a captivating example of in Inspired by Place, is a unique, original expression of innovation and an architect’s way of thinking. Subtle and quiet, they are refinement. Reductive, regionally appropriate palettes, elegant thin rooflines, nonetheless compelling works in how they tackle a sense of sleek protective overhangs, roof cut outs, and other signature design place, of inhabiting space while resonating with the core of one’s moves punctuate the firm’s eloquent and expressive architecture, all inner being. There is an existential quality to these watercolors complemented perfectly by the projects whose interiors were executed by that is rare to be found in this medium. CLB’s design team. Photo from Chinese Brutalism Today ORO Editions Fall 2019 15 Gathering Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Sam Lubell Gathering Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Authors Sam Lubell is a writer based in New York. He has written nine books about architecture for Phaidon, Rizzoli, Metropolis Books, and Monacelli Press. He is a contributing editor at the Architect’s Newspaper and writes for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, Wired, Metropolis, the Atlantic, Architectural Record, Architect Magazine, Contract, Architectural Review, and other publications. He co-curated the exhibition Never Built New York Good buildings require an understanding of the principles of at the Queens Museum, and the shows Never Built Los Angeles structure, light, space, and material, but great buildings require an and Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles at the A+D understanding of people. The most successful inspire through the Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles. interactions and connections made within them. Gathering is the latest book from the award-winning architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, founded in 1965 is an architecture Jackson. This collection of work exemplifies how architecture has practice with offices in Wilkes-Barre, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Seattle, the power to bring people together by design, allowing them to and San Francisco. The firm is recognized for elegant and humane engage with one another in new ways, to generate ideas, share their design, ranging in scale and circumstance from major academic, passions, and build communities. civic, cultural, and corporate buildings to private homes, large and small. Its architecture is alive to the subtleties of place, both human- The fourteen projects included in this volume range greatly in made and natural; to the varied natures of people; to the character size, function, and aesthetic, from the High Meadow Dwellings of institutions; and to the rich possibilities of material and means of at Fallingwater to the Newport Beach Civic Center in southern construction. California to Apple Stores located around the world. Through full- color photographs as well as conceptual sketches and diagrams, Since 1965, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has received more than 600 each case study gives insight into Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s design design awards, including nine AIA National Honor Awards and three process, and how the firm’s approach has helped transform clients’ AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Green Projects. institutions, workplaces, retail environments, research laboratories, In 1994, the firm received the American Institute of Architects and public spaces into extraordinary places for people. An Architecture Firm Award and in 2010, Peter Bohlin was awarded the introductory essay and chapter text by noted architectural writer Sam Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architects, the highest honor Lubell accompanies this volume. an individual American architect can receive. Title: Gathering ISBN-13: 978-1-943532-18-6 Size: 7.5” x 10.5” Portrait 5 4 0 0 0 Pages: 344pp Binding: Hardbound Publication Date: Fall 2019 ISBN: 978-1-943532-18-6 World Rights: Available Price: $60.00 9 7 8 1 9 4 3 5 3 2 1 8 6 ORO Editions Fall 2019 5 Études The Poetry of Dreams + Other Fragments John Marx John Marx’s watercolors, first published in the Architectural Review, Design, Placemaking, Emotional Meaning, and Cultural Vibrancy in are a captivating example of an architect’s way of thinking. Subtle Silicon Valley and places as diverse as Korea, Italy, Austria, Australia, and quiet they are nonetheless compelling works in how they Canada, and the Technion in Israel. John exhibited his work at the tackle a sense of place, of inhabiting space and time all the while 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale and exhibited during 2018 Venice resonating with the core of one’s inner being. There is an existential Architecture Biennale at GAFF. quality to these watercolors that is rare to be found in this medium. Something akin to the psychologically piercing observational quality Editor Laura Iloniemi, born in Helsinki, Iloniemi grew up in Finland, of artists like De Chirico or Hopper. Switzerland, and the United States. She studied History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and museology at the Ecole du Louvre As architects strive to communicate their ideas, it is interesting in Paris followed by a post-graduate degree in the history and to explore the world of Marx’s watercolors as an example of a philosophy of architecture from the University of Cambridge. humane approach to conveying emotional meaning in relation to our environment. Marx’s subject matter read like “built landscapes” Owen Hopkins is senior curator at Sir John Soane’s Museum where heightening the role of the human made yet wholly in balance with he leads the exhibitions and learning teams. Prior to that he was the natural world. This is a message and sentiment that is perhaps curator of the architecture program at the Royal Academy of Arts. more important than ever to relay to audiences. His interests revolve around the interactions between architecture, politics, technology, and society. He is curator of numerous Author exhibitions. John Marx, AIA, is the founding design principal of Form4 Architecture in San Francisco, CA. He advocates for the inclusion of Pierluigi Serraino ia a practicing architect, author, and educator. Philosophy, Art, and Poetry in the thoughtful making of place. Keenly His projects and writings have been published in journals such as aware that architecture is a balancing act between self expression Architectural Record, A+U (Japan), and the Architectural Review and collaboration, he uses the compelling power of form to create (UK). Among his books are Modernism Rediscovered (Taschen, emotionally resonant architecture and urban spaces. John’s design 2000) and The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Personality Study work and writing has been published in over 100 national and (Monacelli Press, 2016). Forthcoming from Serraino is Ezra Stoller: international publications. He