Archinect Outpost to host Swimming to Suburbia, Craig Hodgetts' book of essays
Craig Hodgetts is a professor in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design and is partner of Mithun | Hodgetts + Fung, a recently merged west coast architecture and design firm. He is known for employing an imaginative weave of high technology and story-telling to invigorate his designs, producing an architecture that embraces contemporary ideology, information culture, and evolving lifestyles. With a broad-ranging background in automotive design, theater and architecture, Hodgetts has created a spectrum of award-winning projects, which includes the temporary yet emblematic UCLA Towell Library, the new acoustical shell for the Hollywood Bowl, renovation of the historic Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, the LACMA exhibition “California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way,” and Wild Beast Pavilion at the California Institute of the Arts. His latest book of essays, Swimming to Suburbia, is out now.
"Widely known for his award-winning design work, the Los Angeles-based architect Craig Hodgetts has distinguished himself as one of the key voices of his generation through trenchant commentary and visionary speculation on architecture and design. This volume gathers an array of theoretical polemics on buildings and cities, critical assessments of major projects and personalities, and other writings that showcase Hodgetts' unique position as both a central figure in the discipline of architecture and a tireless advocate of technological opportunities developed at the fringes of the field.
Craig Hodgetts and Lester Walker. Architectural Design 40 April 1970, 178 Contextualized with a critical introduction by historian Todd Gannon and illustrated with rare materials from Hodgetts' archive, this collection cuts a revealing cross-section through a turbulent period during which architecture's confidence in the Modernist project was shaken, its intellectual energies redirected, and its cultural agenda re-imagined in the face of environmental challenges, technological opportunities, lingering disciplinary traditions, and revolutionary new ideas."— Shane Reiner-Roth, Mar. 4, 2019
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