Studio Joy Works
Rick Joy
Princeton Architectural Press, October 2018

Paperback | 9-3/4 x 8-1/2 inches | 208 pages | # illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781616897550 | $55.00

Publisher Description:
Rick Joy's reputation as one of the country's most gifted designers, whose
mining of materials and site create transcendent, even poetic buildings, was
established in his first book, Desert Works. This follow-up, Studio Joy Works,
marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of his firm's founding and continues the
careful documentation of the growing body of his important work, including
houses in Vermont and California, his first public project, a train station in
Princeton, New Jersey, and residences abroad in Mexico and Turks and Caicos. The projects in this book are further contextualized with an essay by
Joy and spectacular photographs.dDAB Commentary:
Tucson-based architect Rick Joy has been practicing for a quarter of a century. In that time his "cooperative practice," Studio Rick Joy, has evolved from single-family houses in the region to the same across North America and larger commissions, some of them public. Even with this evolution, which parallels the career paths of many successful architects, his "desert works," to take the phrase from his first monograph, stick in the mind of those, like me, who appreciate his work. With rammed earth walls and carefully placed apertures for framing views and introducing natural light, projects like the Catalina Hous...