Grafton Architects: Inspiration and Process in Architecture

• English Version.
• Inspiration and architecture process.
• Illustrations in colour and black and white.
• Made in Italy.

Product Description ------------------- The drawings of the Dublin based Studio Grafton Architects, one of the most up and coming and hype studio in contemporary architecture, formed by Ivonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, that are published here gather together personal looks, references and materials relative to six projects which have been built or presented at competitions: the Bocconi University in Milan; the extension of the Mackintosh Glasgow School of Art, the new campus for UTEC University in Lima, the Medical School in Limerick, the Toulouse School of Economics UT1C and the Solstice Arts Centre in Navan.This book forms an archipelago of fragments which, layered over each other, enable us to narrate a way of observing and practicing architecture, between the freedom of inspiration and the rationality of the process. More than 100 colour and black and white illustrations A reference book for architect studios and students A colourful examination into creative process with previously unreleased interviews From the Back Cover ------------------- The book tells the attention that Grafton Architects lend to the public role of architecture. The drawings published here gather together personal looks, references and materials relative to six projects of spaces for research, education and culture which have been built or presented at competitions: the Bocconi University in Milan; the extension of the Mackintosh Glasgow School of Art; the new campus for UTEC University in Lima; the Medical School in Limerick; the Toulouse School of Economics UT1C; and the Solstice Arts Centre in Navan. This book forms an archipelago of fragments which, layered over each other, enable us to narrate a way of observing and practicing architecture, between the freedom of inspiration and the rationality of the process.