Ralph Johnson of Perkins+Will: Recent Works
Oscar Riera Ojeda (Editor)
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2012

Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 488 pages | 650 illustrations | English/Chinese | ISBN: 978-9881512543 | $75.00

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
The work of Chicago architect Ralph Johnson explores the use of restrained modernism to enrich and clarify complex programmatic buildings with intriguing assemblies that reveal their functions and hierarchical relationships. Johnson?s goal is to form, through the social art of architecture, an urban environment of buildings that are good civic neighbors as well as distinguished citizens. The projects in this book, both built and unbuilt, represent his concern for humanistic values and emphasis on process rather than preconceived product, allowing the work to respond to diverse cultures and urban conditions. Johnson is a principal and the design director at Perkins+Will. The book includes essays by Rodolphe el-Khoury, Daniel Friedman, and Thomas Fisher. REFERRAL LINKS:
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dDAB COMMENTARY:
A couple decades ago, when I was working as an architect in Chicago and spending most of my days designing public schools, the firm's monograph on Ralph Johnson of Perkins & Will was a near constant presence on my desk. Johnson was not the first architect at Perkins & Will to focus on schools and do them so well (it is the f...