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Der Architekt und Princeton-Professor Stan Allen ist weltweit vor allem für seine Arbeit auf städteplanerischer Ebene sowie für sein 1996 veröffentlichtes einflussreiches Essay Field Conditions bekannt geworden. Situated Objects zeigt nun eine gänzlich andere Facette seines Schaffens: Eine Auswahl kleinerer Bauten und Projekte in der ländlichen Umgebung des Hudson Valley, New York, zeugt von einer architektonischen Herangehensweise, die im direkten Dialog mit dieser teils wilden, gänzlich unstädtischen Umwelt vor den Toren New Yorks steht.
Die in Plänen und reichem Bildmaterial vorgestellten Projekte sind drei thematischen Kategorien zugeordnet: «Compounds», «Material Histories» und «New Natures», welche durch Texte des Architekten selbst sowie Essays von Helen Thomas und Jesús Vassallo ergänzt werden. In zahlreichen für dieses Buch entstandenen Bildern fängt der bekannte Architekturfotograf Scott Benedict zudem die spezielle Atmosphäre des Hudson Valley und der darin eingebetteten Bauten ein.
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Stan Allen
is an architect and educator. His practice, Stan Allen Architects, is located in New York’s Hudson River Valley. He is currently the George Dutton ’27 Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, where he served as Dean of the School of Architecture in 2002–12.
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Building in and with nature: buildings by American architect Stan Allen in the Hudson Valley, north of New York
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“Allen’s essay on the meaning and force of the axonometric is dressed like an afterthought within his monograph, but it succeeds as a quiet manifesto for the work of an architect who, more even than his recent buildings, is himself convincingly situated—and not only in the Hudson River Valley, but at John Hejduk’s Cooper Union, or at Princeton where he was Dean until 2012, or in the work of the other cerebral masters he admires.” Niall Hobhouse,
drawingmatter.org
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"Allen's essay on the meaning and force of the axonometric is dressed like an afterthought within his monograph, but it succeeds as a quiet manifesto for the work of an architect who, more even than his recent buildings, is himself convincingly situated - and not only in the Hudson River Valley, but at John Hejduk's Cooper Union, or at Princeton where he was Dean until 2012, or in the work of the other cerebral masters he admires." Niall Hobhouse, drawingmatter.org
