West Workroom towards a new sobriety in architecture theory + practice, by Paolo Conrad-Bercah+w office (including contributions from Daniel Sherer, Pierluigi Panza and George Baird)
‘This is not a book….’ These are the opening words of this initially unfathomable paperback volume of architectural ramblings. It has been assembled as an account of the work of a Milan-based architecture practice, West Workroom. The firm designs commercial, residential and institutional buildings, with a special emphasis on functional offices and other workplaces. It was founded by the New York architect, Paolo Conrad-Bercah and since 1999 it has gradually become internationally well known for emphasising, ‘what seems to be gradually vanishing from daily life — namely, cultural differences’.
Because Conrad-Bercah was educated at Harvard and trained as an architect in the New York office of I. M. Pei and Harry Cobb and also in the Milan office of Aldo Rossi and Ignazio Gardella, he aims in this, his first monograph, to emphasise the different qualities of the cultures of Europe and America.
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