This third volume in the monograph series of work by Jones, Partners: Architecture picks up where the previous volume El Segundo left off. Aft er 10 years of costal habitation in El Segundo, the office has relocated near SCI-Arc in an industrial district of DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles) where Jones is teaching and many of the team members have matriculated or are studying. Alameda covers much of the work done in this location between 2007 and 2013, in 330 densely packed (but artfully designed, by Afton Klein Group) pages, including quintessential “machines” in text and building-form, as well as various esquisse interludes and over forty pages of the firm’s signature graphic design – reproduced in convenient tear-out sheets of promotional posters, competition boards, and other client presentation material. As the title suggests, the spirit of the work continues to be BOSS, but this volume also records a new and ongoing exploration of what Jones terms “hard modernism,” which is to architecture what hard cider is to apple juice. This particular work sees itself as continuing the evolution of the machines for living as mechanisms for contemporary meaning.
This third volume in the monograph series of work by Jones, Partners: Architecture continues the coverage of the firms “words, buildings: machines,” in the same signature graphic form that made the previous two volumes inspirational collector’s items.
ISBN
9781961856578Title
Alameda Words, Buildings: MachinesAuthor
Wes JonesPublisher
ORO EditionsPublication year
2025Binding
SoftcoverLanguage
English
