#libri #architettura | John Pawson : puro spazio

John Pawson : puro spazio / Alison Morris.
Electa Architecture, Milano : 2012.
244 p. : principalmente il. col y n.
ISBN 9788837091118
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI.
Pawson, John, 1949.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72PAWSON JOH
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1748152~S1*spi

il particolare approccio all'architettura di John Pawson associa la rigorosa ricerca della semplicità a un'acuta attenzione per i dettagli. Nel corso degli ultimi dieci anni, Pawson ha applicato la sua concezione di una architettura ridotta agli elementi essenziali di spazio, proporzioni, luce e materiali a una gamma di edifici del tutto nuova per dimensioni e tipologia. Attraverso una serie di saggi tematici e la descrizione dei singoli progetti, l'autrice racconta i metodi di lavoro seguiti dallo studio, le varie fasi del processo di progettazione e i complessi rapporti tra committente e architetto. Il volume è anche una riflessione sulla sfida -a trent'anni di distanza dai primi progetti per gli appartamenti della mercante d'arte Hester Van Royen e dello scrittore Bruce Chatwin- imposta dalla sempre più crescente quantità di lavoro pur rimanendo fedele alla visione originaria. Riccamente illustrato con fotografie che mostrano sia il processo di progettazione, sia le opere realizzate Puro spazio offre una ideale introduzione a quanti non hanno dimestichezza con il lavoro di John Pawson e nuove, affascinanti intuizioni a coloro che apprezzano da tempo questo architetto. il libro appagherà anche la curiosità di tutti coloro che sono interessati ai retroscena umani del lavoro di architetti e designer. John Pawson è nato nello Yorkshire nel 1949.

#books #architecture | A visual inventory

A visual inventory / John Pawson.
Phaidon Press, New York [etc.] : 2012.
283, [20] p. : principalmente il.
ISBN 9780714863504
Pawson, John, 1949.
Fotografía de arquitectura.
Fotografía de paisajes.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-77.033 VIS
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1737490~S1*spi

John Pawson's career as an architect and designer spans a variety of sizes and programs: from bowls to bridges, and monasteries to Calvin Klein stores. In addition to his acclaimed design work, he is the author of Phaidon's successful Minimum, a book that paired images and captions to illustrate the notion of simplicity in a beautiful and inspirational manner. Visual Inventory presents some of the images from Pawson's personal collection of over 200,000 digital snapshots. The book opens with an essay explaining the importance of photography as a tool for Pawson's work, and the images are set one per page with illuminating captions. Covering a huge range of subjects, the photographs form a remarkle body of reference material. Some of the images illustrate a particular idea out form, material or space; others reflect the author's interest in returning repeatedly to certain subjects, capturing the changes brought by different weather, light conditions, seasons and patterns of use. Each image has been chosen for the book because it is useful, offering a lesson in visual thinking. None of the photographs in the book have been cropped or altered; it is the selection, arrangement and captioning of the images that make this book unique, valule and attractive to any architect, designer, artist or student who wants to see the world around them with a stronger eye.

#monograficos #arquitectura | El Croquis 158 | John Pawson, 2006-2011

John Pawson, 2006-2011 : [la voz de la materia = the voice of matter].
El Croquis, Madrid : 2011.
239 p. : il., planos.
Ed. bilingüe español-inglés.
Nº monográfico 158 de la revista El Croquis (2011-V).
ISBN 9788488386687
Pawson, John, 1949.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72(082) *CRO/158
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1739749~S1*spi

John Pawson nació en 1949 en Halifax, Yorkshire, al norte de Inglaterra. Tras la época escolar, y después de trabajar durante un tiempo en el negocio textil familiar, en 1973 viajó a Japón, donde dio clases de inglés en la Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales de Nagoya. Tras tres años en Nagoya se trasladó a Tokio, donde colaboró en el estudio del arquitecto y diseñador Shiro Kuramata. Aunque nunca fue un aprendiz en el sentido estricto de la palabra, esta experiencia le resultó fundamental. A su regreso a Ingla terra se matriculó en la Architecture Association de Londres, y estableció su propio estudio en 1981.

Desde el principio, su actividad se centró en explorar los problemas básicos del espacio, la proporción, la luz y los materiales, más que en elaborar un conjunto de gestos estilísticos. Su primera obra fue la rehabilitación del apartamento que compartía en Londres con la marchante de arte Hester van Royen. Otros encargos domésticos siguieron a éste —como los realizados para el escritor Bruce Chatwin, el director de ópera Pierre Audi y la coleccionista de arte Doris Lockhart Saatchi—, además del diseño de espacios de exposición como las Galerías Waddington de Londres o la Galería PPOW de Nueva York. Los fundamentos de la obra de Pawson, alejada de las inquietudes de la principal tendencia arquitectónica de los ochenta, se enraizan en el pasado, en las sucesivas expresiones de simplicidad que han punteado de modo constante la tradición oriental y la occidental: desde los conceptos japoneses del Zen hasta la arquitectura monástica cisterciense, o la serenidad de los espacios vacíos eclesiales del pintor holandés del siglo XVII Pieter Saenredam.

Los decisivos proyectos comerciales realizados durante los años noventa transformaron la escala y el alcance de su trabajo. En este tiempo resultó crucial una reunión improvisada con Calvin Klein en 1993 que se tradujo en el encargo del diseño de la primera tienda de colecciones de la marca en Manhattan y, unos años más tarde, en la propuesta ganadora del concurso para el diseño de las Salas Cathay Pacific para el nuevo aeropuerto de Hong Kong. En esta misma década, Pawson escribió el libro Minimum (1996) , en donde explora la noción de simplicidad en el arte, la arquitectura y el diseño a través de una variedad de contextos históricos y culturales.

Aunque las casas privadas han sido siempre el hilo conductor de su obra, los últimos proyectos abarcan una gama cada vez más amplia de escalas y tipologías edificatorias, desde un monasterio cisterciense en la Bohemia rural a la rehabilitación de iglesias en Hungría, Alemania y Francia, o desde una pasarela sobre el lago del Real Jardín Botánico de Kew, en las afueras de Londres, hasta el espacio interior de dos yates y las escenografías para ballet en el Royal Opera House de Londres y la Opéra Bastille en París. Pawson trabaja ahora en el proyecto de la nueva sede permanente del Design Museum en el antiguo Commonwealth Institute, un ejemplo icónico del movimiento moderno británico de post-guerra en el oeste de Londres.

book | John Pawson : plain space

John Pawson : plain space / Alison Morris.
London [etc.] : Phaidon, 2010.
244 p. : il.
ISBN 9780714857480*
Materias:
Pawson, John, 1949.
Arquitectura Siglo XX.
Arquitectura Siglo XXI.
Biblioteca A-72 PAWSON JOH

John Pawson (b.1949) is an architect and designer whose exceptional work combines an essential simplicity with a keen attention to the details of everyday life and human experience. In the last decade, the scope of his designs has broadened from objects and interiors to include houses, monasteries, pavilions and boats. This change in scale has given his office the opportunity to refine its minimalist aesthetic and further develop its ideas of a fundamental architecture based on the qualities of space, proportion, light and materials. In "Plain Space", author Alison Morris presents both this recent body of work and earlier projects from the perspective of someone who has had unique access to the work and archives of the office. In thematic essays and narrative project descriptions she examines the firm’s working processes, relationship with clients, and approach to design. Filled with exquisite photographs and detailed drawings, "Plain Space" will be the next must-have book for fans of John Pawson and a perfect introduction to his work for anyone interested in the absolute best of contemporary design.

John Pawson was born in 1949 in Yorkshire. After spending several years in Japan and studying at the Architecture Association in London, he established his own practice in 1981. From the outset his work focused on ways of approaching fundamental problems of space, proportion, light and materials, rather than on developing a set of stylistic mannerisms – themes he also explored in his book Minimum, first published by Phaidon in 1996, which examines the notion of simplicity in art, architecture and design across a variety of historical and cultural contexts. His many residential and commercial interiors have included homes for the writer Bruce Chatwin and the opera director Pierre Audi as well as art galleries and stores in London, Dublin New York, Paris, Seoul and Tokyo. Subsequent projects have spanned a wide range of scales and building typologies, from stage sets and exhibitions to boats and airport lounges, and include such diverse projects as the new Cistercian monastery of Our Lady of Novy Dvur in Bohemia and the Sackler Crossing, a bridge over the lake at Kew's Royal Botanic Gardens.

Alison Morris is a writer, specializing in the field of architecture and design. Following an English degree at Cambridge University and a brief period of postgraduate work at King’s College, London, she spent a number of years teaching. In 1998 she joined the Pawson team, where she has remained close to the heart of the architectural process for more than a decade. Alongside the day-to-day work of the practice, she is regularly involved in the preparation of exhibitions and publishing projects. In 2002 she edited the catalogues for the VIII Venice Architecture Biennale, under the directorship of Deyan Sudjic.