By Kenneth Frampton
James chippie is an artist and sculptor whose paintings specializes in constructing new glass and fabric applied sciences. His curiosity in structure has developed right into a specified layout perform that levels from technical glass and fabrics consulting to designing curtain partitions, roofing structures, bridges, and sculptures. In James chippie: Environmental Refractions, the artist's first monograph, writer Sandro Marpillero explores the original possibilities afforded via the transparency, reflectivity, and compressive energy of glass. With over three hundred photos, this publication brings to gentle the paintings of a thrilling dressmaker crossing the bounds among structure, engineering, and nice arts. James wood worker layout affiliates, based in 1978, has labored collaboratively with preeminent architects and engineers within the usa and abroadincluding Norman Foster, Richard Meier, SOM, and Michael Van Valkenburghcreating the creative supplement to many major constructions. James wood worker, in collaboration with Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, were selected to layout and construct an undulating glass dome for the recent Penn Station.
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