Volume Architecture Book by Stanton Williams

VOLUME Stanton Williams 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 - Stanton Williams photo © Hélène Binet 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