Description:

Neeson Murcutt Neille: Setting Architecture is the first major monograph on this critically acclaimed architecture practice. As the second book in a series of monographs, this book tests the limits of the series logic, using structures established in the first book (Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing people & place), but setting out in its own direction. The question for this monograph series is: how can each book in the series respond to and become specific to the subject, while also belonging to the series? In this case we changed the material production, changed the typography, changed the pacing and emphasis of the image selection, and introduced a new emphasis on architectural models. With all this change, though, there was a base grid structure, and a core editorial idea left from the previous book, and that was enough to assert the series relationship. The core editorial idea was to re-think the series-of-projects monograph model and dive much deeper into the thinking and the workings of the practice, unearthing insights rather than focussing on the finished work. This approach was provoked and made possible by the structural approach to the book design, dispersing the main essay throughout the book, and making the practice work responsively to the essay, rather than separating the essay at the front. On completion, this book is both responsive to the work of Neeson Murcutt Neille, and part of a series of books.