Inventive minimalism : the architecture of Roger Ferris + Partners. / txt
Inventive minimalism : the architecture of Roger Ferris and Partners. / txt
William S. Saunders ; Foreword by Robert M. Rubin ; Afterword by Robert Wilson.
- First American edition.
- 175 p. ill. ;col. ;plans. ;photo. ; 26 cm. book
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Introduction by William S. Saunders -- Residential -- Bay House / Noyack, New York 2012 -- Country Estate / New Canaan, Connecticut 2010 -- Ocean House / Little Compton, Rhode Island 2008 -- Surf Shack / Sagaponack, New York 2012 -- Sound House / Fairfield, Connecticut 2003 -- Green House / Bridgehampton, New York 2013 -- Warren Street Loft / New York, New York 2005 -- Institutional -- The Bridge Clubhouse/ Bridgehampton, New York 2008 -- Royal Bank of Scotland Americas Headquarters / Stamford, Connecticut 2009 -- 11 Wilton / Wesport, Connecticut 1995 (exterior) / 2012 (interior) RK Restaurant / Rye, New York 2005 -- Mindspark Headquarter / Yonkers, New York 2013 -- Topping Rose House / Bridgehampton, New York 2013 -- Financial Services Firm / New York, New York 2013 -- Forthcoming -- E 82nd Street Townhouse / New York, New York Fall 2016 -- Watermill Center Underground / Water Mill, New York Spring 2017 -- Arc House / Wesport, Connecticut Fall 2016 -- Red Barn / Wesport, Connecticut Summer 2016 -- Screenland Lofts / Burbank, California Spring 2018 -- Marsh House / Water Mill, New York Spring 2017 -- Dune Road House / Water Mill, New York Summer 2017 -- Afterword by Robert Wilson --
From family houses to historic restorations, hotels, and high-tech office spaces--the architectural firm of Roger Ferris + Partners has pursued uncommonly diverse projects at vastly different scales, all with an approach to design that synthesizes imagination and logic. Whether a 1,500-square-foot house on a narrow lot overlooking Long Island Sound, or the Royal Bank of Scotland's US headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut--with a six-story glazed atrium and a "courtyard in the sky" on the roof of its two-story trading floor--a building that is "well conceived and artfully executed, cannot help but be beautiful."
Among Ferris' major projects are a golf clubhouse that has turned a conservative typology on its ear with bladelike forms inspired by a racing engine turbine, and a partially sunken service entrance in which impresario Robert Wilson has staged theatrical productions. A design for a restaurant includes not only a central, glass-enclosed kitchen elevated 18 inches above the floor, but an art installation that periodically projects scrolling text on the dining room wall. In every project, the fulfillment of the client's functional needs is rendered in the most elemental and legible way, resulting in both formal elegance and dramatic power.
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Roger Ferris + Partners.
Minimal architecture Architecture -- Individual Architects & Firms -- Monographs. Architecture/ Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial. ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).