Morphosis- Diamond Ranch High School: Source Books in Architecture

by Jeffrey Kipnis

Morphosis/Diamond Ranch High School presents a detailed story of the design and construction of a single building, Diamond Ranch High School by avant-garde California architecture firm Morphosis. The volume opens with an interview with Thom Mayne, founder and principal of Morphosis and winner of the 2005 Pritzker Prize. The interview outlines Mayne's working methods and chronicles his development as an architect from his years as a student through the realization of such influential projects as the widely published Crawford House. The presentation of Diamond Ranch High School, a state-of-the-art public school in Pomona, California, offers a level of detail not normally found in architectural monographs. Here every crucial architectural decision is extensively illustrated with conceptual sketches, key working drawings, and photographs of the project under construction and after completion.

Genres: Architecture

208 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2001

Reviews

[Andrew Walters · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this for research on my PhD, I was hoping for a little more text, but what is included is very interesting. It's particularly of interest to those looking at the motivations and processes of leading architects. The interview with Thomas Mayne (and of course the associated diagrams, drawings and schematics) provide a good introduction to the specific process of morphosis architects, whilst also giving some clue to the way in which other factors impact on an architectural design.