{"product_id":"inventive-minimalism-william-s-saunders-9781580934510","title":"Inventive Minimalism: The Architecture of Roger Ferris + Partners","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs rigorous as it is sumptuous, the work of Roger Ferris + Partners blends high style and modernist principles. This is the firm's first monograph.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom family houses to historic restorations, hotels, and high-tech office spaces - the architectural firm of Roger Ferris + Partners has pursued uncommonly diverse projects at vastly different scales, all with an approach to design that synthesizes imagination and logic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether a 1,500-square-foot house on a narrow lot overlooking Long Island Sound, or the Royal Bank of Scotland's US headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut - with a six-story glazed atrium and a \"courtyard in the sky\" on the roof of its two-story trading floor - a building that is \"well conceived and artfully executed, cannot help but be beautiful.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong Ferris' major projects are a golf clubhouse that has turned a conservative typology on its ear with bladelike forms inspired by a racing engine turbine, and a partially sunken service entrance in which impresario Robert Wilson has staged theatrical productions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA design for a restaurant includes not only a central, glass-enclosed kitchen elevated 18 inches above the floor, but an art installation that periodically projects scrolling text on the dining room wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn every project, the fulfillment of the client's functional needs is rendered in the most elemental and legible way, resulting in both formal elegance and dramatic power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William S. Saunders,Roger Ferris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 158093451X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781580934510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Monacelli Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/09\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 8.10w x 0.90d","brand":"William S. Saunders","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48449763606783,"sku":"9781580934510","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2814449d-f308-4706-a1aa-7ac0c961c32b.jpg?v=1777264804","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inventive-minimalism-william-s-saunders-9781580934510","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}