Pamphlet Architecture 20: Seven Partly Underground Rooms and Buildings for Water, Ice, and MidgetsThe latest in the Pamphlet Architecture series, Seven Partly Underground Rooms and Buildings investigates unusual spaces in Italy, ranging from a honeycombed and mazelike series of rooms and stairs for midgets, to the dining chambers of a Pompeiian estate, to a half-buried sphere that serves as a place for ice storage. Ray reveals these quixotic spaces through constructed drawings, collaged photographs, and insightful text. Mary-Ann Ray is a principal, with Robert Mangurian, of the architecture firm Studio Works in Los Angeles. A fellow of the American Academy in Rome, she is also a professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Her projects have received various awards, including the Progressive Architecture Urban Design Award (1991). Her work also appears in "Re: American Dream". Pamphlet Architecture, begun in 1978 by William Stout and Steven Holl, has become a popular venue for publishing the works and thoughts of a younger generation of architects. Small in scale, low in price, but large in impact, these books present and disseminate new and innovative theories. |
Contents
I | 19 |
THE HALF MONOLITHHALF MANYLITH | 20 |
Two large serpents wrapped together standing inside the city | 22 |
AlterCity City Found by Subtraction Built in Reverse | 27 |
Civic SurfacesWorking Volumes and Gravity | 35 |
The Well of Sangallo St Patrick in Orvieto is a marvel for any student | 36 |
Insular World Hybrid Building Model of the City in the Building | 44 |
Building Inside a Building Folded Path Going Down Ends | 52 |
Suburban City Buildings as Formwork | 59 |
Po Flatlands Lidded Space RankBreakers in SpaceMaking | 67 |
NOTES ON THE TECHNIQUE AND METHOD OF PHOTOGRAPHY | 73 |
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