Volume Stanton Williams, Architecture Book, Design, Image, Architects Publication
Volume Architecture Book by Stanton Williams
London Architects Publication by Black Dog Publishing, England, UK
Stanton Williams Publication
Volume – Stanton Williams
photo © Hélène Binet
5 Feb 2010
VOLUME book
For the last 20 years, Stanton Williams have quietly carved a path that makes no reference to objects, styles, or concepts, and this protects them from the crisis now facing the architectural imagination, caught between a seemingly insatiable appetite for difference and a desire for more lasting significance. Irénée Scalbert
Volume is that rare thing-a book about architecture and design that is also an accessible treatise about people, buildings, art, and craft, mixing thoughts with imagery, text with design. The book is a journey through the work and world view of Stanton Williams that takes the reader from interviews to project details by way of elegant design and specially commissioned photography.
The book begins with an essay by critic and historian Irénée Scalbert establishing their work within its cultural and historical context. A conversation between Alan Stanton and Paul Williams introduces the reader to themes which include, at their core, the power that exhibition design and a passion for materials, space and light has to form the backbone of a pervasive ethos, practice and built catalogue. The exhibition director Ken Arnold follows with an essay on the creation of spaces for art, touching on Stanton Williams’ designs in this field. Architectural and design critic Stephen Bayley concludes the book with his own take on the practice’s work and ethos.
Stanton Williams projects covered in the book include:
– bIssey Miyake
– Compton Verney
– Casa Fontana
– Millennium Seedbank
– Tower Hill
– Belgrade Theatre
– Department Store
– Spaces for Art
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
Page: 272
Binding: Hardback
RRP: £29.95
ISBN: 978-1-906155-87-2
Selected Projects featured in Volume
Wellcome Trust Millennium Seedbank, Wakehurst Place, West Sussex
photo © Morley von Sternberg
Casa Fontana, Lugano, Switzerland
photo © Simon Phipps
Compton Verney Art Gallery, Warwickshire
photo © Peter Cook
Tower Hill, London
photo © Morley von Sternberg
Bournville Place, Bournville, Birmingham
photo © Peter Cook
Bridget Riley Exhibition, Tate Britain, London
photo © Peter Cook
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
photo © Stanton Williams
Department Store, Bristol
photo © Hélène Binet
Stanton Williams Architects London, England, UK
Architectural Design
Contemporary Architecture Books – key architectural design publications selection below:
Architecture Design Books – chronological list of publications
New Architecture Books
picture from architect
European Architecture Walking Tours : city walks by e-architect
Comments / photos for the Volume Stanton Williams page welcome
Website: Stanton Williams Architects