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Inspired by Kvadrat’s role as a celebrated textile producer, Demand initially pursued the idea of the tent as an archetypal architectural structure with many iterations across contexts of leisure and shelter, simplicity and grandeur. Translating these concepts into his own artistic idiom of paper, he tasked Caruso St John with materializing this lightness of form, with a touch of his distinctive, duplicitous whimsy. The final building, completed in September 2022, achieves this through a harmonious sequence of steel and fibreglass structures which create their environments through the fall of light and shadow, textured opacity and welcoming transparency. This publication presents extensive images of the completed buildings alongside in-depth illustrated conversations with Frank Gehry, Denise Scott Brown, Adam Caruso, Valerie Verhack, Anders Byriel, Emilie Appercé, and Thomas Demand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45643574739164,"sku":"9781915743084","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/9746\/1724\/files\/THOMASDEMAND_CARUSOSTJOHN-THETRIPLEFOLLY-2023.jpg?v=1751054504"},{"product_id":"el-croquis-201-caruso-st-john-2013-2019","title":"El Croquis 201: Caruso St John (2013-2019)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis monographic issue of the magazine features recent work by Caruso St John, the London-based architectural firm established in 1990 by Adam Caruso and Peter St John. Focusing on projects completed between 2013 and 2019, the overview also includes a critical and personal analysis by the partners and an interview by British architect and designer Liza Fior. It features no less than 25 projects of all scales and covering a range of types, from Newport Street Gallery, the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, to the Canterbury Cathedral organ loft, a private house in the mountains, and the Peterloo Massacre Memorial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"El Croquis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46481940250844,"sku":"EC201","price":99.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/9746\/1724\/files\/Magazine-ElCroquis3831.jpg?v=1744769840"},{"product_id":"collected-works-volume-3-2010-2020","title":"Caruso St John - Collected Works Vol. 3: 2010-2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 2010 and 2020, Caruso St John expanded its reputation for sensitive and characterful architecture through a remarkable range of projects. Major buildings in the heart of Swiss, German, and Belgian cities explored the role urban landmarks can play in the present day, while smaller domestic projects provided the opportunity for experiments in restoration, materials, and color. Transforming buildings for reuse ? from beloved public institutions to long abandoned industrial sites ? became a focal point for the practice as it sought to emphasize its work with the existing rather than contribute to the escalating production of new construction. Their designs for memorials, exhibitions, and museums further developed this engagement with memory and an aliveness to the past.The third volume of Caruso St John?s acclaimed Collected Works series covers this prolific period via a sequence of resonant themes. Projects are presented with extensive drawings, photography, and new commentaries, interleaved with competition entries, contemporary reviews, and material that inspired and informed the architects, including texts by Elizabeth Wilson and Grace Ndiritu and references from Alberti to Roger Diener and Pissarro to the Bechers. As a retrospective, the book is reflective, allusive, and critical, engaging with urgent contemporary questions while offering a close encounter with the mature work of one of the world?s most significant architecture practices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48174059815132,"sku":"26W289","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/9746\/1724\/files\/NEW-WI20259735.jpg?v=1774998993"},{"product_id":"collected-works-1990-2005","title":"Caruso St John - Collected Works Vol. 1: 1990-2005","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first volume of a collected works, this book covers fifteen years of Caruso St John, one of the most highly acclaimed and influential contemporary archi­tectural practices. Following a thematic course shaped around key phases and aspects of their thinking, this extensive volume offers a detailed reflection on the practice’s activities between 1990 and 2005. Through a chorus of voices including critics, clients, and artists, it narrates their early emergence and de­velopment through to the international recognition which came with projects such as Nottingham Contemporary, The New Art Gallery Walsall, and the Brick House, with the latter two both being shortlisted for the Stirling Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDetailed accounts of early projects and competition entries, with unseen drawings and new commentaries by Adam Caruso and Peter St John, are presented here accompanied and contextualised by inventories of references from across architecture and contemporary art, together with new and archival texts capturing each project’s formation and reception. With an open and re­flexive structure, the book offers both an accessible introduction and a detailed, cross-referential constellation of ideas, images, influences, and documentation. Diverse projects such as the progressive reiterations of Peter St John’s home at Orleston Mews and the signage system for London’s Bankside sit in dialogue with more well-known buildings. Bringing together the renowned and the minor, the peripheral and the spectacular, the ugly and the beautiful, this essential book – the first comprehensive monograph on the practice – embodies Caruso St John’s belief that the contemporary world is composed not solely of the new but of everything that has come before. It illuminates a vision of the built environment as a network of culture, memory, construction, and emotion, and articulates an architecture that inhabits and evolves with that fluctuating whole. Includes texts by Wim Wenders, Hans Kollhoff, Irénée Scalbert, Vicky Richardson, Claes Caldenby, Dominique Boudet, James Lingwood, Adam Caruso, Peter St John, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48174103363804,"sku":"26W294","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/9746\/1724\/files\/NEW-WI20259736.jpg?v=1774999025"}],"url":"https:\/\/stoutbooks.com\/collections\/people-caruso-st-john\/format-hardcover.oembed","provider":"William Stout Architectural Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}