Description
This edition features Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), established in Chicago in 1936, an internationally prolific firm that has transformed itself according to the demands of each generation. This issue focuses on their activity in the 21st century, as the parameters of architecture are again rapidly changing. SOM’s offices around the world are now converged into one, and it promotes collaboration among experts both within and external to the firm. Besides featuring high-profile projects such as One World Trade Center and Pearl River Tower, various essays by its 21 partners express why they think such an organisational change is necessary at this moment.
CONTENTS
- Discussion for the 5th LIXIL International University Architectural Competition: House for Enjoying the Harsh Cold, Kengo Kuma, Tomonari Yashiro, Dana Buntrock, Darko Radović
- Essay: SOM: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Nicholas Adams
- Office structure: Transformation of SOM from Founding through Today
- Office structure: Staff Structure
- Office structure: Firmwide Activity and Project Organization
- Office structure: SOM Publications: Critical Dialogues
- Partner Profiles for Essays
- Partners’ Essay: SOM Values and Culture – Increasing Meaningful Innovation Across Disciplines and Scales, Craig W. Hartman
- A Collective Culture and Critical Engagement, Roger Duffy
- Continuous Renewal, T. J. Gottesdiener
- Composing a Global Practice in the Post-Industrial Age, Gene Schnair
- Technical Solutions for Performance Design, Keith Boswell
- A Personal Journey, Richard F. Tomlinson II
- Five Lenses, Jonathan Stein
- Shifts of Clients’ Needs, Responses of SOM
- One World Trade Center
- 7 World Trade Center
- Partner Profiles for Essays
- Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport – Terminal 2
- Partners’ Essay: A Culture of Architecture and Engineering, William F. Baker
- Resiliency, Self-Sufficiency and Regeneration, Mark Sarkisian
- Poly International Plaza
- Poly Real Estate Headquarters
- Partners’ Essay: Integration of Architecture and Interiors, Stephen Apking
- Advancing the Art of Architecture
- Tall Buildings in the 21st Century, Gary Haney
- Pearl River Tower
- Pertamina Energy Tower
- Timber Tower Research Project
- The Active Modular Phytoremediation System (AMPS)
- Building Integrated Concentrating Solar Facade (ICSF)
- Partners’ Essay: Forward-thinking and Interdisciplinary Innovation: A Global Perspective, Xuan Fu
- Achieving Resiliency, Carrie Byles
- Tectonics and Humanism, Leo Chow
- Past, Present and Future: Innovation and High Performance Design, Jeffrey J. McCarthy
- University Center, The New School
- John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- U.S. Air Force Academy – Center for Character and Leadership Development
- United States Consulate General
- Cathedral of Christ the Light
- Millennium Park Master Plan
- Partners’ Essay: 21st Century Cities and Mobility, Anthony Vacchione
- Architecture and Aviation, Laura Ettelman
- Denver Union Station
- Partners’ Essay: Finding the Proper Balance, Mustafa K. Abadan
- Management for Unprecedented Outcomes, Kenneth A. Lewis
- “How Big Can We Think?”, Philip Enquist
- Beijing CBD East Expansion
- Great Lakes Century Vision Plan
168 pages, ills colour & bw / 22 x 29 cm / English, Japanese
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