Elizabeth Roberts Architects: Collected Stories (ARCHITECTURE) - Tapa dura

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Christine Coulson es autora de Metropolitan Stories (Other Press, 2019) y One Woman Show (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster, 2023).

Elizabeth Roberts, AIA comenzó su práctica individual poco después de completar sus estudios de posgrado en preservación histórica en la Universidad de Columbia y sus estudios universitarios en arquitectura en UC Berkeley. Originario del norte de California, el galardonado Roberts es ahora una apasionada neoyorquina.

Alanna Stang es cofundadora de Well Said, una consultoría de estrategia narrativa, y coautora de The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005).

De la contraportada

The first book by the New York–based AD100 architect Elizabeth Roberts compiles photographs, sketches, and even vignettes of fiction, to showcase her award-winning work

Over the past decades, Elizabeth Roberts Architects has built a practice of specificity. Whether breathing new life into a historic townhouse or imparting a sense of place into a ground-up contemporary home, Roberts dissolves the boundaries between architecture, interior design, and objects. Her sensitive approach and timeless aesthetic have earned her firm not only wide acclaim and AD100 status, but also a devoted following.

The 18 projects featured in this book―among them chic city townhouses and brownstones, contemporary mountain retreats, and a restored country farmhouse, as well as commercial and cultural commissions, and ERA’s designs for wallpaper and furniture―reflect Roberts’s dedication to reframing the distinctions between history and modernity. Varied in their typologies, all are remarkable for being refined but warm, composed but informal, contemporary but enduring, qualities that have earned Roberts a clientele that includes Hollywood luminaries, celebrated fashion designers, and media moguls.

Interspersed throughout the projects are hand-drawn sketches; historical ephemera such as postcards, archival photos, and antique maps related to each site; and short fictional vignettes written by renowned novelist Christine Coulson, which add dimension, context, and surprise.