Site Specific

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An anthology of interviews with some of the finest architects and designers in the world, this book offers an investigation into how place and context affects critical design development in an architectural site related program. Architects were shortlisted for this project for their particular (and sometimes contrasting) modes of working with site specificity within European and American contemporary architectural practice. All the architects selected are working at an international level within their field and display a high level of intelligence and sensibility within their designs. This book offers the reader a chance to understand the deeper thinking of the individual interviewees. This insight can enhance significantly an understanding of some of the key issues in contemporary architectural practice today. The reader gains an intimate portrait of the concerns, thoughts and feelings of these architects as they reflect on their own practice in the midst of their working challenges and successes. It reveals a more intricate individually nuanced reading of site, meaning and context. It offers the reader a series of studies in the form of interviews, which will inspire future and current architects to consider issues of context in greater depth. AUTHOR: Karen Forbes is a Professor of Art, University of Edinburgh. Her research and practice focus on the intersection between art, architecture, place and meaning with a commitment to exploring new ways of realizing this through drawing, speculative design, symbolic pavilions, actual new buildings, photo-montage, computer generated imagery, augmented images, virtual reality (oculus rift developer), App design and development, edited and authored books, exhibition, installation and visual communication for public engagement. Colour photos

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Karen Forbes is fascinated by the interface of art and architecture. Her work involves examining the creative possibilities which arrive from this dialogue. Born in Glasgow in 1962, she works between Edinburgh and Amsterdam. She has been the recipient of a number of international fellowships to support her research, including DAAD, Christoph Merian Stiftung, Beleyer Foundation, Basel, Chicago Project FOF, RMIT Australia, and the Scottish Arts Council Amsterdam Residency. Recent projects include 'Evolution Tower' Moscow (2005-15) and 'The Solar Pavilion' - a meeting point for the visual arts commissioned in 2011 for the Visual Art Festival through Scottish Government Expo Funding, Creative Scotland, and the British Council. She is currently Professor of Art at the University of Edinburgh and focused on new developments in art, place-making, interactive 3D imaging, and architecture.