Lawrence Kocher: American Architect

Author:   Luis Pancorbo ,  Ines Inés Martín Robles
Publisher:   Oro Editions
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9781961856615


Pages:   380
Publication Date:   24 January 2025
Format:   Hardback
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The book offers a new conceptual and historical framework for the study of Lawrence Kocher’s body of work that relocates it within the history of American modern architecture. Kocher’s work as an independent designer has received very little critical attention. The book devotes several chapters to this little-known part of Kocher’s practice and re-situates him as one of the main protagonists in the history of American Modern architecture and reveals the profound relationship between Kocher’s designs and existing American domestic traditions. Kocher’ concept of the vernacular included not only the different residential types of Colonial and Early Republican America, but most importantly, other kinds of transitional dwelling artifacts. This book tries to provide evidence about Kocher’s intention of using these vernacular artifacts, alongside the concepts of prefabrication and industrialization inherent to them as a base to construct a new national architecture in which to graft the European modernist tradition. Kocher’s ideological position and his continuous eagerness for experimentation transformed him into an atypical practitioner. While many of his contemporaries were purely design focused, he established a very avant-garde symbiosis among his three main endeavors: his work as an educator, as a scholar, and as a practitioner. Some of his architectural works can be seen as manifestos that would later further develop in the articles of Architectural Record. Some others are the direct and material demonstrations of industrial systems and materials previously explored in his articles. Even other works are conceived and executed as part of a pedagogical activity.

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Author:   Luis Pancorbo ,  Ines Inés Martín Robles
Publisher:   Oro Editions
Imprint:   Oro Editions
Dimensions:   Width: 24.10cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 28.00cm
Weight:   2.008kg
ISBN:  

9781961856615


ISBN 10:   1961856611
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   24 January 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Andrew Frontini is an award-winning architect who, over 30 years, has built a highly collaborative studio culture and a singular vision of public architecture imbued with poetry, humour and theatre. Andrew serves as the design director of Perkins&Will’s Toronto and Ottawa studios. Andrew has taught at the University of Waterloo and serves as a visiting critic at the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto and the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Architecture. He shares his passion for design through exhibitions, published articles and speaking engagements. Introduction by Ian Chodikoff. Editor, Ned Cramer.

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