{"product_id":"out-of-the-ordinary-the-work-of-john-ronan-architects-hardcover","title":"Out of the Ordinary: The Work of John Ronan Architects - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Ronan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSean Keller\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eCarlos Jiminez\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis publication on the work of John Ronan Architects explores the firm's spatial-material approach to architecture and the underlying themes of its typologically diverse output. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOut of the Ordinary introduces a different approach to architecture which is based on spatial narrative rather than form and influenced by literature rather than appropriations from the world of art world. It advocates for architecture which privileges space over form, experience over image, and narrative over authorship. \u003cbr\u003eIn previous decades, architectural production was constrained by the limits of technology; architects pushed on the boundaries imposed by technology and it gave them common purpose. Those limits are gone. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the preceding two decades it has been demonstrated that with enough technology (and money) anything is possible. What does an architect do when anything is possible? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the question which confronts architects today, who now operate within a professional landscape where all is possible, but little has meaning. The \"anything goes\" mentality which currently prevails has resulted in innumerable self-referential \"object\" buildings which engage only with their architect's ego, often resulting in an urban fabric of autonomous formal objects comprised of arbitrarily-applied design tropes which celebrate formal invention for its own sake. But what do architects leave society once the novelty of form has worn off? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this architectural age of arbitrary shape-making, devoid of context or meaning, Out of the Ordinary proposes an architecture of innovation rising from ordinary concerns, about relationships not form, which exposes new spatial relationships with diagrammatic clarity in a process of distillation what seeks to lay bare meaningful relationships between essential building elements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 02, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766426960160,"sku":"9781638409786","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c22b689a376ad303b85ee3bd93e60bcc.webp?v=1780292498","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/out-of-the-ordinary-the-work-of-john-ronan-architects-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}