Salmela Architect

by Thomas Fisher

Salmela Architect provides an in-depth look at one of America's leading "critical regionalist" architects. Salmela's buildings resolve a central question of our time: how to balance the various extreme positions that characterize contemporary architecture and culture. Salmela accomplishes this by juxtaposing opposites: modernist and traditional forms, open and cellular plans, large and small scales, familiar elements used in unfamiliar ways. His projects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816642575
• ISBN13: 9780816642571
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.5" x 10.6"