{"id":13631,"date":"2018-06-19T20:20:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arquitectonica.com\/architecture\/?p=13631"},"modified":"2021-12-08T20:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:21:49","slug":"celebrate-four-decades-of-arquitectonicas-striking-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.arq.global\/architecture\/celebrate-four-decades-of-arquitectonicas-striking-structures\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Four Decades of Arquitectonica\u2019s Striking Structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]\u201cWith most practitioners, an animating design philosophy\u2014critical, social, aesthetic, what have you\u2014usually compels a designer to want to realize his or her vision, to launch their Big Idea into the real world,\u201d design writer Ian Volner pens in the foreword of Arquitectonica, a new monograph by Alastair Gordon ($85, Rizzoli). \u201cArquitectonica tends to abjure those kinds of master narratives: Ask the architects what overarching strategy unifies their current portfolio, and the response is likely to vary from partner to partner, from day to day, or simply to elicit a bemused shrug.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more than 40 years, the groundbreaking architectural firm has been eschewing a formal design theory in favor of simply designing beautiful buildings. If you had to categorize its works, you could use the single word \u201cmodern.\u201d Principals and cofounders Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Laurinda Spear launched Arquitectonica in 1977 in Miami, introducing the city\u2014then more commonly known for its Art Deco hotels along the beach\u2014to glass and steel, to color and pattern. Their stylized buildings redefined the city\u2019s aesthetic, elevating Miami to the modern design metropolis it is today.<\/p>\n<p>The book looks across all of Arquitectonica\u2019s works, from the early days in Miami to the buildings that have risen across the world as the firm expanded globally. \u201cIf anything can be said to bind together the almost 60 projects in the present monograph, it\u2019s a restlessness of the architectural imagination, a mercurial intellectual kinesis tempered by a no-nonsense apprehension of the trade, as well as the art of building,\u201d writes Volner. Herewith, see eight such buildings from Arquitectonica\u2019s impressive oeuvre.<\/p>\n<p><em>Article originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/arquitectonica-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Architectural Digest<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<div class=\"single-image-element\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.arq.global\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Arquitectonica_Venice-Biennale_news.jpg\" data-original=\"https:\/\/staging.arq.global\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/Arquitectonica_Venice-Biennale_news-340x480.jpg\" alt=\"single image\" \/><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principals and cofounders Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Laurinda Spear launched Arquitectonica in 1977 in Miami, introducing the city\u2014then more commonly known for its Art Deco hotels along the beach\u2014to glass and steel, to color and pattern. 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