Architect Peter Pennoyer: Peter Pennoyer Architects (New York)
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“My father, who was on the New York City Art Commission and the Building Committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” architect and architectural historian Peter Pennoyer tells Designers & Books, “would bring home pamphlets, plans, and even books from hearings and meetings at which the few building projects proposed in the dim days of the late 1960s and early 1970s were under review. I remember in particular the 1971 master plan of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo.
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Mar 13, 2012
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Guest blogger: Maria Popova (Brain Pickings, New York)
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Guest blogger Maria Popova—creator of Brain Pickings—looks at George L. Legendre’s recent book, which looks at pasta shapes as design statement.
Mar 6, 2012
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Graphic designer Gail Anderson: New York
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Gail Anderson knows type. She’s made it the center of her much-admired work at Rolling Stone magazine and as the Creative Director of SpotCo, an agency specializing in graphic design for the theater world. With Steven Heller she’s written six popular books on type of all kinds, including New Ornamental Type and New Vintage Type. The team has a new book, New Modernist Type, coming out this fall. A recipient of the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from the AIGA, Anderson is also an in-demand lecturer on graphic design topics.
Feb 28, 2012
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Architect Craig Hodgetts: Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture (Los Angeles)
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Since the 1970s, when he collaborated with Robert Mangurian in the cutting-edge firm Studio Works, to his talked-about recent installation with partner Hsinming Fung for the “Pacific Standard Time” exhibition California Design, 1930–1965 (on view through June 3, 2012, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Craig Hodgetts has pursued a remarkable range of interests. In his architecture, writing, and teaching, he has drawn on automotive and lighting design, information technology, and theater and film, among many other areas. He has, as he says in the introduction to the list he created for Designers & Books, “an appetite for nearly everything I encounter.”
Feb 21, 2012
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Interior designer Jeffrey Bilhuber: Bilhuber & Associates (New York)
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In addition to being an acclaimed interior designer, Jeffrey Bilhuber is an engaging and entertaining storyteller. Designers & Books had the chance to find out firsthand just how engaging and entertaining a storyteller at a recent face-to-face with him in his office on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The conversation ranged from an unusual fiction choice on the book list he sent us to why he is getting his preschool son a subscription to National Geographic magazine to what his own library looks like and the thinking behind his latest book.
Feb 16, 2012
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Guest blogger: Alissa Walker (Los Angeles)
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Guest blogger Alissa Walker—design and urbanism journalist, critic, and author—talks about why the era of coffee table books bigger than coffee tables is over.
Feb 14, 2012
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Architect Galia Solomonoff: Solomonoff Architecture Studio (SAS) (New York)
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The architect Galia Solomonoff, a native of Argentina, traces her attachment to books to a memorable incident: “In 1975, my parents burned a significant and dear part of our library as Isabel Perón signed a number of decrees empowering the military to ‘annihilate’ the Argentine left. It was a Sunday morning in winter. We were at our suburban house on the Paraná River and I was seven. I passed books to my father in silence; we did a barbecue to cover up the burning of the books.”
Feb 9, 2012
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Guest blogger: Phil Patton (New York Times, New York)
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Guest blogger Phil Patton highlights some books he is currently reading, and rereading, on a wide range of design subjects. —SK
Feb 8, 2012
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Graphic designer Ivan Chermayeff: Chermayeff & Geismar
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Graphic designer Sagi Haviv: Chermayeff & Geismar
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In the first in a series of Author Q&As, Designers & Books asks graphic designers Ivan Chermayeff, Tom Geismar, and Sagi Haviv to talk about their new book, Identify (Print Publishing, October 2011), named a Notable Book of 2011 by Designers & Books.
Feb 7, 2012
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Architect Cesar Pelli: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Recognized for a lifetime of distinguished achievement in architecture—he is the recipient of more than 200 awards and prizes for his contributions to the field—Cesar Pelli has designed some of the contemporary world’s most famous buildings.
