While we were working on this issue on construction documents, a holiday greeting came in over the wires from Winzler & Kelly Consulting Engineers of Eureka. They have been kind enough to let me share a portion of it with you (please see below).
I also want to mention two terrific new books. Bassett is a breathtaking selection of the drawings of Edward Charles (Chuck) Bassett, the late design partner of SOM San Francisco. It has been published in a limited edition by SOM and is available from William Stout in San Francisco. All proceeds go to the SOM Foundation, which was cofounded by Chuck and supports the education of architects through traveling fellowships. Saarinen, by arcCA editorial board member Peirluigi Serraino, is the fifteenth in a series of beautiful but inexpensive monographs from Taschen. Look for it at one of California’s fine, local architectural bookshops—Stout, Builder’s Booksource in Berkeley, Hennesey & Ingalls and Form Zero in Santa Monica.
I won’t say much about the current issue, except to note that it is the first in our expanded format, which gives the eye—and we hope the mind—a bit more room to breathe. Please let us know what you think.
Originally published 1st quarter 2006 in arcCA 06.1, “Imbedded Knowledge.”
