Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates: Concepts and Buildings

Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition, this critical assessment of the 25-year architectural practice of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, New York, illuminates the historic context from which the firm emerged & in which its present achievements may be understood & measured. Within a broad survey of HHPA buildings, contemporary stylistic issues, & evolving architectural vocabularies, the author highlights four recent projects as paradigmatic of the intellectual, aesthetic & pragmatic interests of the architects, known for their inventive juxtapositions of massing, color, pattern, & geometry, their interest in the expansion & rehabilitation of historic structures, & their masterful solutions to assignments in which architecture creates or reinterprets an institutional identity. Discussed in detail: Middlebury (VT) Center for the Arts, Alaska Center for the Performing Arts (Anchorage), Los Angeles Central Library, & Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A complete bibliography & working chronology of a representative range of the firm's projects make this an indispensable reference as well as a valuable introduction to contemporary architectural history. Winner of first prize in the 1993 American Association of Museums design competition (for exhibition catalogues), the book has a distinctive die-cut cover & copper spiral binding.Andres, Glenn M. is the author of 'Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates: Concepts and Buildings' with ISBN 9780962526244 and ISBN 096252624X.