In February, the San Fernando Valley Business Journal hosted the 2013 Commercial Real Estate Awards. The awards recognized 7 of the most notable commercial real estate projects in the Valley. Sierra Pacific Constructors Office, an S+D project in Woodland Hills, received the Tenant Improvement Project of the Year.
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Sierra Pacific Constructors Office was featured in Office Snapshots last month. Office Snapshots is a website dedicated to displaying and discussing the latest trends in office design. Check out the Sierra Pacific Constructors feature and to browse more office designs, visit officesnapshots.com.
The Lido Triangle Townhouses is a 23 unit townhouse project located on the Balboa peninsula, in Newport Beach. The proposed development is broken into 5 buildings which have a number of view corridors throughout the site. It has been designed with animated, street focused facades that will enhance pedestrian and vehicular view corridors. There is a range of units that appeal to various potential markets and price points. Browse more photos and read about the project here.
http://shubinanddonaldson.com/newport-beach-townhouses/
Partners In Charge: Robin Donaldson AIA, Russell Shubin AIA
Principal Architect: Sieglinde Pukke AIA
Project Team: Liz Hughes, Court Gross, Alan McLeod, Ruth Hasell
If you’re into eSports (competitive video gaming), chances are you’ve heard of League of Legends, but have you heard of Riot Games?
Riot Games is the gaming company that launched the popular online game, which now has 32 million registered users. With headquarters in Santa Monica and offices across the globe, Riot Games has grown tremendously in the past few years. Shubin+Donaldson worked with Riot Games on the interior design of their St. Louis office space.
Check out the project link for more pictures.
May 2, 2013 | 6 pm: Planning Commission Hearing Room
Channing Peake Gallery – 105 East Anapamu Street Santa Barbara, CA
Join Robin Donaldson AIA, founding partner of Shubin + Donaldson Architects at this 1st Thursday event in downtown Santa Barbara. The presentation will feature four projects that received awards at the 2012 AIASB Design Awards for design excellence. The projects include: CL20: a suburban house addition prototype, Park Place: a creative office adaptive reuse project, Campus 880: student rental housing in Isla Vista, and The Glass Bar: Channel Island Residence.
About 1st Thursday:
1st Thursday is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara. On the first Thursday of each month, participating galleries and art-related venues offer free access to visual and performing art in a fun and social environment from 5-8pm. 1st Thursday venues feature attractions, such as art openings, live music, artists’ receptions, lectures, wine tastings and hands-on activities.
Check out the AIA Santa Barbara flyer for more info.
Every three years, a jury of renowned architects chooses the best of architectural design in Santa Barbara, CA. Awards are given separately for built and unbuilt projects and entries come from a diverse field that includes residences, public buildings, and interiors. The 2012 jury participants are Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, Michael Folonis, FAIA, and Tibby Rothman.
Shubin + Donaldson Architects is honored to be the recipient of 4 AIA Santa Barbara 2012 Design Awards for Design Excellence. Check out the full video of the AIA Santa Barbara 2012 Design Awards winning entries with commentary from the jury.
Built Projects
HONOR AWARD
Project – CL20: Suburban House Addition Prototype
“…such a quiet, simple counterpoint to the existing house, makes you respect the existing house more all at the same time being a strong addition itself.”
Unbuilt Projects
CITATION AWARD
Project– Park Place
“…bringing a dead zone back to life, creating energy, and tension.”
MERIT AWARD
Project – Isla Vista Student Housing
“…transformed from its current state to something pretty wonderful.”
HONOR AWARD
Project – The Glass Bar: Channel Island Residence
“…beauty is in the detailing…”
IV University Housing | Isla Vista, CA
This project will provide 56 units and 106 bedrooms of new, energy efficient, high quality rental housing in 52,700 square feet.
Pacific Palisades Residence | Pacific Palisades, CA
17,000 square feet single-family residence on a coastal bluff overlooking a natural canyon and the Pacific Ocean.
Skyline Residence | Santa Barbara, CA
This residence is a 3-story 2500 square feet home on a hilltop in Santa Barbara, CA.
Wolf Creek Ranch | Woodland, UT
8,600 square feet residence on 160 acres of working sheep ranch.
Toro Canyon Residence was featured in Western Art & Architecture’s April/May 2013 issue. Titled Of Substance and Light, the article describes the design process of this 7,000 SF home constructed entirely of concrete, glass, and mahogany.
“With its distinct volumes and lines, soaring windows and weighty materials, there’s nothing ambivalent about this residence. Elegant and edgy, sophisticated and simple, with an eclectic blend of furnishings and modern art, it achieves that invigorating balance of yin and yang.”
Click here to read the article and visit the project link to learn more about the project.
http://shubinanddonaldson.com/toro-canyon-residence-2/
How do you cross the gray area between preservation and design innovation? Shubin + Donaldson struck a balance between preserving the bold modern features of this 1957 designed home with the insertion of a new program and an expanded vision of the design’s outward expression. An open central living space was cleared through the home which identifies two wings of private spaces. Wood slats threads itself in the exterior of the home and a raised terrace creates a large gathering space for outdoor entertaining.
For more on the project and images, click here to go to the project site.
Partners In Charge: Robin Donaldson AIA, Russell Shubin AIA
Project Architect: Bradford Kelley
Contractor: MAPCO Construction
Photographer: John Ellis
Pacific Coast Business Times recognized Robin Donaldson AIA, founding partner of S+D, and Sieglinde Pukke AIA, principal of S+D, as Who’s Who in Commercial Real Estate and Construction. Click to read.
Check out the construction progress photos of a modern residence in Pacific Palisades. This 17,000 sf single family residence overlooks a canyon and the Pacific Ocean. The building takes full advantage of the site’s severe topography and attempts to preserve the natural beauty of the virgin site. For more on the design and renderings, read about it here. Pacific Palisades Residence is also the winner of the Bronze A’ Design Award in 2011-2012.
Construction is well underway on this S+D mixed use project in Newport Beach. 3388 Via Lido is located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Via Lido and Via Oporto between Via Lido and Newport Bay on Balboa Island. The upper 3 stories will be converted to high end residences and the lower 2 stories will remain commercially used. To learn more about the design, visit the project link: http://shubinanddonaldson.com/via-lido-2/. Check out the construction progress photos below:
Not Your Average Log Home
Located on 160 acres of working sheep ranch east of Heber City, this house is a “modern day log home.” It sits at 7800 feet altitude just outside the Wasatch National Forest with a 180 degree view towards Mt. Timpanogos, the mountain range separating Heber City valley from the Salt Lake City basin.This region of forest, as with others throughout the United States, is plagued by the bark beetle. Millions of acres of standing dead trees contribute to unhealthy and dangerous forest conditions. This house makes use of these dead trees in a cross laminated timber (CLT), solid wood thermal mass structure. Three hundred forty thousand board feet of lumber, just under one million pounds, is harvested from the ranch, cleaned and cut on CNC machines by a local timber mill, shop assembled into building panels for walls, roofs, and floors, and shipped to the site ready for install. From dead tree to standing structure is less than a 50 mile round trip.
Check out this link for more photos of this project on our website.
How do you represent the complexity of the media industry into an efficient work space?
A comfortable balance of forms, spatial layout, and material relationships was sought in response to this project. Several ideas were cross-referenced against the subject of media in the conceptualization of this 14,640 SF space including motion, soundwaves, and digital versus analog representation. These were all interests that the clients found intriguing and relative to aspects of their own work. The client’s desire for the highest level of design and extent of scope was challenged by a modest budget coupled with an aggressive 4 month completion schedule. The porosity of the design affords a more efficient work space, increasing available natural light levels, clarifying circulation patterns, and encourages a more positive level of interaction and increased productivity.
Check out this link for more photos of this project on our website!
Project Highlights:
This LEED Platinum Certification targeted project occupies two levels of an existing 24 year old building and prides itself on offering a stimulating environment for both clients and employees. The design was conceived as a merging of interior and exterior environments, utilizing as many opportunities to introduce natural lighting into the workspace. A unique aspect to this project was the fact that the client was also the General Contractor. This relationship certainly allowed a much more direct discussion of project related issues throughout the design and construction, but was also challenging in that the client was forced to come to terms with certain issues from different sides.
Check out this link for more photos of this project on our website!
Meet Russell and Robin, partners of Shubin + Donaldson Architects. To learn more about our work, visit our website, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter.
“What good architecture can do, it can inspire, it can enliven…” -Russell Shubin
“The environment you’re in makes all of the difference in the world.” -Robin Donaldson
Riviera Residence, an S+D project located in Santa Barbara, CA, was recently featured in the Winter 2013 issue of LUXE Los Angeles. Click here to read the full article and check out the Press section of our site to read more articles.
S+D Project, Toro Canyon Residence, published in new book by David Phillips and Megumi Yamashita titled Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture. The book features work of renowned architects around the world and presents 49 recently completed and influential concrete designs of commercial and residential architecture. Click for more details about the book.
This modern low cost student housing project is pushing ahead. Still have the metal skin to add to the buildings and site work is getting put in. Should be ready for students next semester.
Check out the design:
http://shubinanddonaldson.com/iv-university-housing/
Some nice local press for a Pacific Palisades, California modern home under construction by Shubin + Donaldson Architects. Click to read full article.
True Car CEO, Scott Painter, contacted us regarding an upcoming event they were hosting in Santa Monica.
The task; design, engineer and fabricate a see saw that will hold 10 people, standing, on each side in 7 working days.
The performance; during the event, circus performers were going to balance the see saw to exhibit True Car’s dedication to balancing a better car buying experience for both dealers and consumers. After the performance, guests of the events would be able to use the see saw.
The execution; S+D worked with Jeff Heitman, of Southwest Fabrication Services, to make this happen in such a short period of time. For the design, we used aluminum I beam sections and .35” thick plates to create a durable and light weight structure. (22’ long, 4’ wide = 700 lbs) Because the see saw will reside in the courtyard at True Car’s Santa Monica office, we used materials such as clear sealed aluminum and ipe wood, that would sustain over time in an ocean front environment.
Concrete roof poured today at 3388 Via Lido, another S+D mixed use project.
Check out the first photo from a recent photo shoot of a modern architectural home remodel we just finished. We will soon be posting all the pictures from the photo shoot on our website.
The “Riviera Residence” in Santa Barbara, California has hit the market. See the link to the real estate listing site. Our houses generally sell quickly and at a premium to the market. We’ll see how this one goes!
http://www.villagesite.com/property/14-alisal-rd-santa-barbara_12-1666
Check out the link to the Los Angeles area modern architectural estate called “Pacific Palisades Residence” designed by Shubin and Donaldson Architects. We are pleased that this project is under construction and look forward to its completion!
Riot Games is a client we have been working with for the past few years as they’ve grown from a small office into hundreds of employees. We have designed various office types including edit bays, rendering farms, IT server rooms and all the support office spaces for a growing tech company. Check out the LA Times article below!
Our modern renovation and remodel of the 3388 Via Lido project in Newport Beach is under construction. Check out the renderings: http://shubinanddonaldson.com/via-lido-2/
Russell Shubin, S+D partner, has a nice write up and advice on where to hang and shop in current issue of LUXE. Click on link below, check out the article on page 80. -RD
Check out the postings about the recently opened offices S+D designed for LUNAR in San Francisco. Kudos to the S+D design team led by Senior Associate Mark Hershman. Check out the video.
Introducing LUNAR’s New San Francisco Studio from LUNAR on Vimeo.
One of our projects called Biscuit Filmworks is featured in a cool blog see the link below:http://remodelista.com/posts/steal-this-look-loft-kitchen-by-shubin-donaldson-in-hollywood
This speaking event is part of the “First Thursday” art walk http://www.santabarbaradowntown.com/go.asp and is sponsored by the SB County arts commission. Starts at 5:30pm in the County Building on Anacapa Street.
We had a brief “pop up” show of models and photos of our work at Edward Cella’s gallery in preparation for our book signing on 4.17.2010. http://www.edwardcella.com/html/home.asp
On Saturday Night, April 17 th Robin and Russell were thrilled to see a big turn out of our friends and clients for a book signing and brief talk at Edward Cella’s galleryhttp://www.edwardcella.com/html/home.asp on Wilshire Blvd in LA. We also had a “pop up” exhbition of photos and models of recent projects. Edward is a brilliant gallerist and he has a great eye for interesting architectural collectibles and fine art. thank you to Edward and staff for making this happen. Also to Julie Taylor and Oro Editions for all your support and great work on behalf of LIVE + WORK.
The next book signing will be in Santa Barbara at Chaucer’s books on Thursday May 20th 7-9pm. Robin and Russell will be doing a brief talk around 8pm.
LIVE + WORK on the shelf at Barnes and Noble at The Grove in W. Hollywood. Wedged in there between Frank Gehry and Phillip Johnson. Buy it now at: http://www.amazon.com/Live-Work-California-Architecture-Donaldson/dp/0979539552/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s;=books&qid;=1269280977&sr;=8-1
Robin Donaldson looks at one of the wooden lifeguard towers being stored at the city’s annex yard after they were replaced by fiberglass ones. Donaldson requested to purchase one from the city before they destroy them.
To read the full article published online on The Daily Sound click on the link below: http://www.thedailysound.com/051909lifeguardtower
Shubin + Donaldson acted as construction facilitators on this new restaurant and gourmet market located in downtown Los Angeles on the corner of 7th and Grand.
click here to view the Riviera Residence on our website:
http://www.shubinanddonaldson.com/project.php?f_cat_id=1&f;_id=12
These photos taken from a recent site visit to the Toro Canyon Residence show the Starfire glass beams being installed for the entry piece which will be constructed entirely from glass.
click here to view Saatchi & Saatchi on our website:
http://www.shubinanddonaldson.com/project.php?f_cat_id=4&f;_id=69
click here to view Ogilvy on our website:
Recently we made another successful furniture buying trip… this time with Brown and Mardi Cannon, owners of Lot 511 (pictured on the left). This photo was taken at our last stop on the trip and our clients were very happy to have found so many quality pieces of furniture for their new home. Will Rivera (center) who designed their home, assisted them in selecting their furniture, verifying sizes and making sure the time spent was productive and enjoyable. Karla (second from the right) helped coordinate the trip and her knowledge of vendors made this trip a success. Edgar (right) was our driver. Many of our clients have enjoyed these trips and we continue to provide this service for all of our clients.
Dear Greg,
We wanted to let you know how pleased we are with the progress on our home. Finton Construction Mexico gave us a schedule, a budget and amazingly (for a project in Mexico) you have managed the project to make both. We appreciate your care for our project and your commitment to quality of our home.
As you know, we were very careful about the selection of a builder to construct our home in Loreto Bay. Fortunately, we have built homes before and knew from prior experience the importance of having an experienced Custom Home builder with highly experienced and motivated on-site supervision. After considering the other available builders in Loreto Bay we selected Finton Mexico, and we are glad we did. No one else had the many years of experience building Custom Homes and the supervision of the project has exceeded our expectations. We also appreciate the weekly construction progress reports and the detailed billing summaries that fully explain all expenses related to our project.
We enjoyed coming down to Loreto Bay and meeting your family and all the team at the Finton Mexico Partners open house. The house tours were very informative as well. We look forward to our first margarita with you on the patio of our home when it is finished for the summer ….on time and on budget!
All the best,
Bill and Julie Thompson
Dear Robin, Russell, John and Dan,
I am writing to tell how happy I am with the performance of your construction team and the quality of the construction. As you know, I have been struggling to keep my enthusiasm for Loreto Bay, especially in light of the developer issues and the recent economic downturn. I have been second guessing myself and wondering if I am doing the right thing. But when I got down to Loreto and finally got to walk through my new home under construction I was thrilled to see the great design being realized into a real home! It was great to see the view from the courtyard overlooking the lake and the beautiful new golf course and mountains beyond. The pleasure of working with your team, seeing the quality and care of the construction, as well as the beauty of the site has reinvigorated me! I can hardly wait until my home is done.
Thank you so much for making this a pleasurable experience and for caring so much about the design and quality of construction for my home. Thank you for the weekly updates on the progress and for sticking to your construction schedule. I feel very fortunate that you guys are building my home, especially when I see what is happening on the other construction sites. Please allow me to be a reference for you with other clients.
Sincerely,
Kinsey Carpenter
After assessing the progress, the quality of work and the details that go into a custom home we were very impressed with the care and process that went into selecting subs, construction processes and transparency. Besides the open book accounting that I am used to nothing was left out and nothing was unaccounted for. Congratulations! a great job! With my background as consultant in setting up, building and improving efficiencies in free standing Ambulatory Surgical Centers, and having built a couple of homes in difficult regulatory and physical situations for our family, I can unconditionally recommend your services! I can say without hesitation that the team of Shubin and Donaldson and Finton Construction of Santa Barbara are the best I have seen in the building business and by far the best in Loreto Bay. It would likely take some time for other builders to train and build up a team of this proficiency that works so well with the Subcontractors. We are so glad we had this team build our home and allow us to become part of the team!
…Shenton Oh, MD MBA CPE
We are nearing completion on this 12,000 square foot renovation for Biscuit Filmworks, a film and commercial production company on Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood. The client purchased the building knowing they would have to provide a significant seismic upgrade, but were committed to an expensive proposition as they needed to consolidate their operations into a single building. The client was clear from the beginning of design discussions that he did not want this space to be a trendy “5 year” design. He felt it was important that if someone walked into the space that they could not tell if it was designed today or 50 years ago. He was also clear to state that he did not want it to be “old fashioned.” He is a modernist at heart, and wanted his space to reflect the strong but simple expression that has appealed to him with so much of modern design. Hopefully we have achieved that for him….
Location: Hollywood, California
Principal Architects: Russell Shubin, AIA, LEED AP, Robin Donaldson, AIA
Project Manager: Mark Hershman
Project Team: Chris Webb, Erik Schonsett
On Thursday February 19th the Shubin and Donaldson Santa Barbara office took a tour of a recently completed renovation of a John Elgin Woolf designed home in the hills of Montecito. The home was renovated by Gregg Wilson and his partner John Maienza.
http://www.kennedywilsonbuilders.com/gregg.htm
The estate is currently for sale and is listed by Suzanne Perkins.
http://www.suzanneperkins.com/portfolio/1478eastmountain/index.html
It was great to see a home by Woolf who’s design archive is currently housed at the UAM and had an exhibit at UCSB that was curated by my dear friend Kurt Helfrich.
Gregg gave us a tour of this immaculately renovated and restored home. They did a great job of respecting the spirit and intentions of the original design while updating and revising the interior floor plan to meet contemporary needs. The materials, detailing, and design features of the home are exquisitely executed by Gregg and John. In my mind, I felt the home was a great example of how a residence can blend a more historical style with a very modern design sensibility. The floor plan responds to the amazing site with spectacular views from every room and an emphasis on indoor-outdoor living. This is a design approach consistent with the design philosophy at Shubin and Donaldson. I felt this was a great way for our office to spend the lunch hour and appreciated Gregg taking the time to walk us through the home.
… Robin Donaldson AIA
Photos of John Elgin Woolf’s work on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danmccarry/collections/72157604598283274/
article on John Elgin Woolf in current Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2009/03/john-woolf200903?currentPage=1
click here to view more images of Hydraulx on our website:
http://www.shubinanddonaldson.com/project.php?f_cat_id=4&f;_id=45
This project is a new 3,000 square-foot, single family residence on the Mesa in Santa Barbara, designed to respond to the client’s desire for a unique design on a tight site with sweeping mountain to ocean views. The massing becomes a study of how to respond to the building envelope described by the various setbacks and height limits on the property, creating simple shapes that when brought together create a dynamic overall form. The program is spread over three levels including a basement-level garage and media space. The ground-level encloses the master suite, second bedroom, and a living area which seeks to blur the line of interior and exterior with floor to ceiling glass and sliding glass doors leading to the patio and yard. The third-level houses the kitchen, family room, and deck which cantilevers out to shade the glass below and capture the stunning views. Each mass is rendered in a single material; concrete, wood slats, glass and metal screen.
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http://www.shubinanddonaldson.com/project.php?f_cat_id=4&f;_id=69
Location: Torrance, California
Principal Architects: Robin Donaldson, AIA, Russell Shubin, AIA, LEED AP
Project Manager: Mark Hershman
Project Team: Reid Embrey, Bryan Flaig, Luiz Gomez, Keiko Okada, Chris Webb
Contractor: Sierra Pacific Constructors
Photographer: Tom Bonner
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http://www.shubinanddonaldson.com/project.php?f_cat_id=1&f;_id=68
Location: Bel Air, California
Principal Architects: Robin Donaldson, AIA, Russell Shubin, AIA, LEED AP
Project Architect: Ann-Sofi Holst
Project Team: Chris Garza, Luiz Gomez
Contractor: Porter Development
Photographer: Ciro Coelho
We are currently in the construction administration phase on this contemporary residential project in Toro Canyon in Santa Barbara County. The client for this project is also an architect and we have worked collaboratively. Due to it being in a “very high fire area” this project was designed with fire resistance as an important part of the design concept. Obviously the recent Tea fire has only helped to reinforce how important it is to design with fire resistance in mind. This 7,500 square foot residence is constructed of poured-in-place concrete walls with corrugated metal roofs. The house was designed with much consideration for the long sequence of arrival as one travels up through the canyon to get to the site. Upon arrival you enter a clearing which faces toward the ocean and descend on the house from above. The house was designed around this particular approach. The roofs were rigorously worked so that they are free of vents and other visual obstructions. The house is a configuration of two volumes that are connected in the middle with an entry piece made entirely of glass. The west volume contains the public living spaces, and the east volume contains the private part of the program. The project is scheduled to finish in July of this year and is being built by Paul Franz Construction. We have built many projects with Paul over the years and are happy to get to do another home with him and his crew.
… Robin Donaldson, AIA
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In early October of last year, S+D Partner Russell Shubin and S+D Senior Architect Alan McLeod traveled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to attend the Dubai Cityscape conference. We are currently working with Meraas Development on a number of projects there
http://www.meraasdevelopment.ae/en/projects-jgc.htm
and we wanted to attend the unveiling of the mega-development, of which we are a part. Held over four days, the conference exhibits over one thousand booths and is attended by sixty thousand people. The primary focus of the conference is on regional development, design, construction and sales. On the exhibition floor one can be impressed by the sheer volume of proposed development and then understand why model makers and computer renderers around the world had been so busy over the months leading up to the event. While in Dubai they also took time to meet with a number of other developers, explore the newer developments in the area and visit the “old town” and Jumeira (the proposed site of the Meraas Development). While much of Dubai remains a vast construction site, the finished work they saw had good quality workmanship looking past the often questionable style/aesthetic of the buildings.
This is the Burj Dubai which is expected to be the world’s tallest tower when it is completed in September this year. Its final height remains a secret in order to stave off competition, but it is suggested that it will top off at 818 m (2,684 ft). Miraculously, one floor is built once every four days. In the foreground you can see Dubai’s new rapid rail system ready for use.
A scale model of the Jumeira Gardens development that we are currently designing beachside villas for under Meraas Development.
Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Makthoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai (in yellow) and his entourage as they view the Jumeira Gardens model.
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If you are interested in seeing an online video of Genie, Geoff, and I discuss the fire, click on the link below. Our interview begins about half way through the video.
… Robin Donaldson, AIA
While Thom Mayne shot this image of the 2-4-6-8 house, several blocks away Richard Diebenkorn labored on his Ocean Park series. In the garage below a shaper built a surfboard while in Malibu Ron Davis cast his resin paintings. This was all going on while I finished my undergraduate studies at UCSB. I thought it was so cool that Thom did his own photography of his project and shot the house from the alley, power lines and all. He did it himself, with his own hands. Like an artist, or a surfboard builder he controlled the design and how the project would be represented to the world. He created his own version of reality. Diebenkorn abstracted a sunny Ocean Park afternoon into flat planes of color and he got to build his painting to communicate his view of the world.
Southern California in the 70’s. If only our architecture could be as cool and timeless as this page. It looks easy and unforced. The art on this page feels fully present, thought it was done many years ago. Vija Celmins meditative graphite work and Ruscha’s renderings capture the moment they were rendered, yet today they still feel relevant . Misrach’s photo is a great lesson in silence and isolation (like Kahn’s Salk institute). We do not need to be afraid of creating spaces that generate a sense of quite and isolation. There is not enough of that quality in the modern built world.
… Robin Donaldson, AIA
