NEXT EXHIBITION: Portland, Oregon. March 22-April 28
RECEPTION: March 22nd Request Invitation >
White Stag Building: Main Gallery, Portland, Oregon - map it
"Berkeley architect wraps up William Wurster book."
"A landmark chronicle of a wonderful career."
THE HOUSES OF WILLIAM WURSTER: Frames for Living
This book represents decades of research by Caitlin Lempres Brostrom, AIA and Professor Richard C. Peters, FAIA. With a preface by Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA, "A Frame for Living" comprises archival and new photography as well as original drawings and narrative history for 33 residential projects. Accompanying the indepth study of these residential projects is a careful narrative analysis of the critical importance of Wurster's work and theories on education and architecture.
Publication Date: September 1st 2011. Order from Princeton Architectural Press>
THE EXHIBITION
Concurrent with the release of the publication, an exhibition of Wurster's work in a multi-media format, will tour five sites in the United States. University of California, Berkeley will open the show in September 2011. Massachusetts Institute of Technology will host the exhibit in the Fall of 2012. Additional sites in process include New York, Los Angeles and Portland.
This exhibition complements the publication of The House of William Wurster: Frames for Living by Caitlin Lempres Brostrom, AIA and Professor Richard C. Peters, FAIA--a comprehensive presentation of Wurster's life (1895-1973) and influence, and detailed analysis of selected houses spanning the extent of his career (1922 to 1967). The majority of the images, photographs, and drawings presented in the book and in the exhibition have never been seen by the public before. This exhibit demonstrates the impact of William Wilson Wurster's work on the practice of architecture today, and documents how his designs and educational philosophy continue to inspire architects and those who occupy his buildings.
"The work at hand, this book, which so richly reveals many fine houses by Wurster, brings us back (or may we hope, forward?) to a milieu that valued accomplished modesty, spare spaces and graceful movement, a period when to build directly and easily with materials close to hand was considered a virtue; one that would allow ingenuity to be invested in building arrangements intended to embellish ways of living and being in a particular way."
Professor Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA, preface.
