Product Description

In only ten years of practice, New York-based architect Alexander Gorlin has established a prominent reputation as the designer of more than 20 residences for high-profile clients in the media and fashion industries. In his work Gorlin investigates the dialogue between architecture and landscape, exploring the affinities between classicism and modernism, in materials ranging from the sensual to the industrial.

The first monograph on Gorlin showcases 28 projects with stunning color photography and includes townhouses, private houses, and apartments, urban planning studies for Battery City Park and the Tribeca areas of Manhattan, and entries for the Prado Museum and Berlin Spreebogen competitions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #674164 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05-15
• Released on: 1997-05-15
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
"If one teaches long enough and lives long enough, inevitably one's kids appear on the scene. Alex Gorlin was not my actual student at Yale, but I felt his presence. Now is a practicing architect...bursting out of the gate with an architectural life full of ideas." --Frank Gehry

"Alex Gorlin is that rarest of creatures-the reasonable architect...Talent of high order permeates these buildings...they stand for judgement without the protection of formal obfuscation or the armature of an ideology, and reveal the talent all the more clearly." --Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
-- Review

Review

About the Author
Paul Goldberger is the Chief Cultural Correspondent of the New York Times and an award-winning architecture and culture critic.

Vincent Scully is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University.

Charles Gwathmey is a founding partner of the prominent New York firm Swathmey Siegel & Associates Architects.

Customer Reviews

Review of 28 works
ISBN: 0847820122: Hundreds of illustrations - mostly color photos, but also plans, hard line presentation drawings, models, renderings, etc. in beautiful colors or B&W on glossy paper, brief project descriptions.
CONTENTS:
Introduction 6
Alex Gorlin: A New Modern Eclectic 10
The Ancient and the Modern 14
Frank Lloyd Wright and The Italian Villa 16
BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS
Villa Cielo 24
Villa Jovis 28
Villa Viare 38
Vittadini Pool House 46
Ca]lan Townhouse 50
Gobert Townhouse 54
Colonial Life Insurance Headquarters 56
Apartment for a Bibliophile 58
New York Apartment 62
Eclipse Townhouse 70
Country House Addition 78
Villa Marittima 84
Hansbrough House 94
Barrier-Hoover Townhouse 100
Tribeca Loft 106
Hadley Group Offices 112
West Village Roof Garden 118
Italic House 120
Rouse of the Glass Spine 122
Alabama House 124
Shadow House 126
Villa Amore 128
Ruskin Place House 130
Battery Park City North 140
Tribeca Massing Studies 142
Battery Park City Guard Booths 144
Tile Spreebogen Competition 146
Prado Museum Competition 150
Afterword 156
List of Projects 158
Awards and Honors 159
Exhibitions 159
Bibliography 159
Selected Writings 160