
Ride: Antoine Predock
65 Years of Architecture
Antoine Predock(Author)
Rizzoli International Publications (Publisher)
Published on 23. April 2024
Book
Hardback
692 pages
978-0-8478-9951-7 (ISBN)
Description
A trailblazing original, Predock is his own tour de force. In his work, steel, glass, and concrete are combined with natural materials to celebrate modern life. Initially considered a regionalist architect one who had captured the power of the desert he has gone on to re-establish the importance of place in architecture in the tradition of Frank Lloyd Wright, Luis Barragan, and Louis Kahn. He has made experience what Kahn would have called spiritual experience once again important in architecture. As critic for Time magazine, writing of Predock s work, Kurt Andersen observed: '[it is] tough and sensual, fabulously imagined, altogether persuasive.' Featuring the wide range of Predock s designed and built structures, including houses, schools, hotels, parks, theaters, nature centers, and more, this is an all-encompassing career/life 'memoirograph.' It charts the architect s journey from his beginnings, to his early days as a professional starting his own studio with the groundbreaking La Luz Community project, up to the present day, including the landmark Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The chronological presentation includes Predock s travel, travel sketches, and kinesthetic pursuits, encapsulating a life in architecture. Rich and multifaceted, like the work itself, this book showcases 3,500 photographs and features more than twenty gatefolds, which open to express the full scope of this modern master.
Reviews / Votes
"[Ride] brings together 3,500 photographs surveying the career of trailblazer Predock, from the La Luz townhouse development in 1960s Albuquerque, to the 2009 construction of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"The hefty, nearly 700-page "memoirograph" traces Predock's highly active life and prolific career." - WORLD ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE
"...a massive chronological presentation of Predock's life and work, from his early years in Missouri and higher education in various places around the United States to his travels around the world and the buildings he built in and beyond his adopted home of Albuquerque, New Mexico..."Ride" is an excellent monograph." - A WEEKLY DOSE OF ARCHITECTURE BOOKS
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
3550 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
Dimensions
Height: 287 mm
Width: 241 mm
Thickness: 64 mm
Weight
3856 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8478-9951-7 (9780847899517)
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Person
Antoine Predock is founding principal of Antoine Predock Architect. During his 65-plus-year career, Predock has received numerous awards and honors including the Rome Prize in 1985. He was named Academician of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2014.