Make Sense
Make Sense: Architecture by White
White Arkitekter
Laurence King, May 2019
Hardcover | 7-3/4 x 9-3/4 inches | 272 pages | 3670 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1786274144 | $29.99
Publisher Description:
White Arkitekter, Scandinavia?s leading interdisciplinary architecture practice, create environments that inspire sustainable ways of living. An employee-owned company founded by Sidney White in 1951, White is a collective of people interested in people. They are architects, anthropologists, planners, engineers, artists, sustainability experts, researchers and more.
In their new book, White showcase over 80 international projects. By integrating research and practice, their work pushes levels of sustainability even higher ? it ?makes sense? in every way. Their projects range from residential apartments to trekking cabins, from schools to offices, from pop-up parks to nature reserves, and from hospitals to an entire city relocation. To build takes many hands and many minds ? it is a marriage of sensibility and sensitivity. The projects in Make Sense aim for a better future ? for people and for the planet.dDAB Commentary: When I think of Scandinavia's White Arkitekter the project that comes to mind is Kastrup Sea Bath near Copenhagen. Curving in plan and angled upwards in elevation, the wood structure reached by a pier is immediately striking; no wonder it has stuck with me as the symbol for the firm. But White is much more than this project or other public baths, of w...
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