Architecture Firms Based in California - Allison & Allison, Anshen & Allen, Ant Farm (Group), Architectural Resources Group, Armet Davis Newlove Archit (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Allison & Allison, Anshen & Allen, Ant Farm (group), Architectural Resources Group, Armet Davis Newlove Architects, Brooks ] Scarpa, Buff, Smith and Hensman, EHDD, Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, F+A Architects, Gensler, George W. Kelham, Heller Manus Architects, Johnson Architecture, Joseph Bellomo Architects, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Lawrence Scarpa, Mark Cavagnero Associates, Marmol Radziner, Marston, Van Pelt & Maybury, MBH Architects, Meyer & Holler, Miller and Pflueger, Morgan, Walls & Clements, Neil Denari, Norton & Wallis, Patrick Tighe, Pereira & Luckman, Peter Tolkin Architecture, Pugh + Scarpa, Reid & Reid, ROMA Design Group, Studios Architecture, Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, Walker & Eisen. Excerpt: Lawrence Scarpa (born October 28, 1959) is an architect based in Los Angeles, California. He is known for the creative use of conventional materials in unique and unexpected ways. Ongoing research in materials and technologies as well as constant reexamination of known conditions, accepted norms, and established methods has led him to innovative solutions and stimulating new ways of approaching design. He is also considered a pioneer and leader in the field of sustainable design. His buildings facilitate best practices in the field but are particularly powerful because he meshes such components throughout design elements, not as individual criteria but part of a holistic structure. Scarpa's work redefines the role of the architect and results in some of the most remarkable and exploratory design today. He does so by looking, questioning, and reworking the very process of design and building. Each project appears as an opportunity to rethink the way things normally get done, to redefine and cull out latent potentials that exist in materials, form, construction, and even financing-to, as Scarpa says, make the "ordinary extraordinary." This produces entirely inventive work that is quite difficult to categorize because it is driven by exploration rather than an initial intent. It is environmentally sustainable, but it is not about 'sustainable design.' It employs new materials, digital practices and technologies, but it is not defined by nor molded by technologies. It is socially and community conscious, but it is not created as a politically correct statement. Rather, it is deeply rooted in conditions of the everyday and works with our perception and preconceptions to allow us to see things in new ways. Solar umbrella house, Venice, CaliforniaLawrence Scarpa was born into a Jewish-Italian family in Queens, New York. After his mother's death from cancer in 1967, the Italian-born father moved the family of four young children, all under the age of nine, from New York to