Twenty Over Eighty: Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design

by Aileen Kwun, Bryn Smith

Twenty Over Eighty is a collection of insightful, intimate, and often irreverent interviews with twenty architecture and design luminaries over the age of eighty. Revealing conversations with leaders from a variety of fields—including graphic designers Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, Lora Lamm, and Deborah Sussman; architects Michael Graves, Denise Scott Brown, and Stanley Tigerman; urbanist Jane Thompson; industrial designer Charles Harrison; furniture designer Jens Risom; and critic Ralph Caplan—spotlight creators, thinkers, and pioneers whose lifelong dedication to experimentation and innovation continues to shape their disciplines well into their ninth decade.
Twenty Over Eighty is not only a record of the remarkable histories and experiences of design's most influential figures but also a source of knowledge and inspiration for contemporary creatives and generations to come.

Genres: Design, Architecture, Art Design

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 5, 2015

Reviews

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

An almost indispensable book that more than proves we have a lot to learn from those older than 35 (I live in the tech-bedazzled-by-youth capital of the world, can you tell?). If not 75.

It also proves that Stanley Tigerman is a giant dick.

[Maddie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I thought that the questions were thoughtful, and organized well. The book itself is beautifully designed, one of my favorite design books up to date.