Gesture and Response: 25 Buildings by William Pedersen of KPF Architectsby William Pedersen
ORO Editions, March 2021

Hardcover | 7-3/4 x 10-1/2 inches | 585 pages | English | ISBN: 9781943532308 | $60.00

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
?Tall buildings have anthropomorphic characteristics that encourage me to think of them as human participants in the city,? writes William Pedersen, FAIA, in the introduction to Gesture and Response.  Within this new book of 25 of Pedersen?s designs, the reader will immediately see how buildings and cities continually reach out and react to each other.
Pedersen?co-founder with A. Eugene Kohn, FAIA, and Sheldon Fox, FAIA, of KPF Architects?selected these designs as emblematic of his architectural aspirations, contextual concerns, and material manifestations.  He shows how monumental buildings made from hard glass, stone, and steel can exist at a gentle human scale. From 333 Wacker Drive (1982) in Chicago to Hudson Yards (2019) in New York, the buildings span 45 years of the architect?s career, as KPF?s influence and global footprint grew.  After taking the reader on a chronological tour of 24 towering corporate headquarters, contextual educational facilities, and community-oriented government projects, Pedersen takes us home?literally?to examine his own house on Shelter Island that was 20 years in the making.
Introducing full-bleed project photographs are buff-colored pages with plans and drawings, along with the story Pedersen ...