{"product_id":"spatial-memories-and-preoccupations-of-an-architect-paperback-by-turner-brooks","title":"Spatial Memories and Preoccupations of an Architect Paperback by Turner Brooks","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eNew York Review Books\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2026-10-27)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e144\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9798896230229\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e187.11\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e21.51 x 14.55 x 0.94\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow does an architect \u003ci\u003ebecome\u003c\/i\u003e an architect? In this intimate and playful work of autobiography and criticism, Turner Brooks explores this very question, mapping the way his childhood impressions and enthusiasms later influenced his award-winning architectural work.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow does an architect go about imagining and shaping space and how is that work shaped by his own experience? In \u003ci\u003eSpatial Memories\u003c\/i\u003e, Turner Brooks, an award-winning architect and a longtime teacher at the Yale School of Architecture, describes how memories of spatial experiences—a small child occupying a father's gigantic overcoat, lying awake in a tiny bedroom in an old house in Maine, traversing the soaring concourse of Grand Central Terminal—evolved into a lifelong preoccupation with architecture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrooks's Emersonian eye considers the kinetic work of Frank Furness in Philadelphia, John Soane's perception-defying museum in London, and the sublime pyrotechnics of Borromini in Rome and baroque palazzos in Sicily, as well as the experience of space in books and paintings, from Clement Hurd's illustrations for \u003ci\u003eGoodnight Moon\u003c\/i\u003e to Kafka's \"The Burrow\" to Edward Hopper's \u003ci\u003eRooms by the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e. An assignment in architecture school, the \"dominant void\"—to construct a space that is more palpable than the material used to define it—becomes a divining rod for Brooks's own arresting, intimate designs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beautifully written, idiosyncratic, moving meditation in the tradition of Gaston Bachelard and Witold Rybczynski, \u003ci\u003eSpatial Memories\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelation of the profoundly personal character of the architectural imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTurner Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e is a principal of Turner Brooks Architects, based in New  Haven. The firm, established in Starksboro, Vermont, in 1972, initially  designed (and often built) small houses and community facilities local  to the area. In the decades since, the firm has expanded its practice to institutional projects, designing university buildings, arts and community centers, and more in the United States and beyond. The monograph \u003ci\u003eTurner Brooks: Work\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1995. He has received grants from the National  Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation; was awarded a  Mid-Career Rome Prize Fellowship in 1984; and in 2015 received the  Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.  He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Virginia Polytechnic  Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Miami,  Middlebury College, the University of Vermont, and the Yale School of Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48234741989537,"sku":"BBSNIJ9798896230229","price":30.35,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9798896230229.jpg?v=1793090514","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/spatial-memories-and-preoccupations-of-an-architect-paperback-by-turner-brooks","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}