Gathering

This collection of work exemplifies how architecture has the power to bring people together by design, allowing them to engage with one another in new ways, to generate ideas, share their passions, and build communities.

Good buildings require an understanding of the principles of structure, light, space, and material, but great buildings require an understanding of people. The most successful inspire through the interactions and connections made within them. Gathering in the latest book from the award-winning architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, the fourteen projects included i this volume range greatly in size, function, and aesthetic, from the High Meadow Dwellings at Fallingwater to the Newport Beach Civic Center in Southern Californa to Apple Stores located around the world.

Through full-colour photographs as well as conceptual sketches and diagrams, each case study gives insight into Bohlin Cywinski Jackson's design process, and how the firm's approach has helped transform clients' institutions, workplaces, retail environments, research laboratories, and public spaces into extraordinary places for people.

About the Author

Sam Lubell is a writer based in New York. He has written nine books about architecture for Phaidon, Rizzoli, Metropolis Books and Monacelli Press. He is a Contributing Editor at The Architect's Newspaper and writes for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, Wired, Metropolis, The Atlantic, Architectural Record, Architect Magazine, Contract, Architectural Review and other publications. He co-curated the exhibition Never Built New York, at the Queens Museum, and the shows Never Built Los Angeles and Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles.