Modern Impulse - Tapa dura

Located in New York City since 1972, Peter L. Gluck and Partners is known for the integrity of their designs and sensitivity to the relationship between architectural form and context. Rather than specialising in a particular building type or specific architectural style, the firm provides appropriate responses to often difficult and conflicting requirements. The firm has designed buildings throughout the United States, ranging from houses, schools, religious buildings and community centres to hotels, corporate interiors, university buildings and historic restorations. This extensive overview of the firm's practice includes architectural drawings, digital and physical models, and photographs of both finished and in progress projects.Joseph Giovannini is an author, critic and the principal of Giovannini Associates, a New York City design firm. A Pulitzer Prize nominee, he has written as an architecture critic for "The Los Angeles Herald Examiner" and "The New York Times", and has contributed to "The New Yorker", "Esquire", "Vanity Fair", "Progressive Architecture", "Architectural Record", and "Architectural Digest", among other publications. Mr.Giovannini has received numerous writing awards, has lectured widely and has taught at Harvard University, Columbia University and at the University of Southern California School of Architecture.