Kohn Pederson Fox: Architecture and Urbanism 1986-1992

by Warren James and Joseph Giovannini

Kohn Pedersen Fox, one of America's premier architectural firms, has distinguished itself through dedicated attention to the development of the most characteristic and significant American building type, the skyscraper. This monograph documents fifty of the firm's most important projects of the last six years. Following a portfolio of two seminal works, 333 Wacker Drive in Chicago and the Procter & Gamble General Office Complex in Cincinnati, are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847814874
• ISBN13: 9780847814879
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.9" x 12.1"

Customer Reviews

Probably the best book on KPF

This book captures the work of this firm in what is my opinion their peak time. This book shows the firm most influential works. Not everybody will be fan of the corporate post-modern style but it can't be denied that KPF was responsible for some of the best and most iconic skyscrapers and skyscraper-solutions of the last 20 years. And although the title says it contains the work up to '92 you can also expect a lot of detailled drawings and pictures of recently finished works like Nagoya station too, which made this to me a better choice than the follow-up book. The content is a lot of pictures and drawings and a little text on a lot of buildings. More project description would have been nice, but with a lot of drawings there is a lot to find out. Anyway for the one who search for a complete as possible line-up of KPF's buildings, or at least the most important this is the book to pick, the other books in the series with the older and newer buildings could be added afterwards of course, but expect more than a little overlap. The book is well designed and made, as can be expected from Rizzoli.