{"product_id":"salmela-architect-9780816642571","title":"Salmela Architect","description":"\u003cp\u003eSalmela Architect provides an in-depth look at one of Americas leading \"critical regionalist\" architects. Salmelas buildings resolve a central question of our time: how to balance the various extreme positions that characterize contemporary architecture and culture. Salmela accomplishes this by juxtaposing opposites: modernist and traditional forms  open and cellular plans  large and small scales  familiar elements used in unfamiliar ways. His projects range from a small stand-alone sauna to commercial spaces visited by thousands of people  and his buildings  mostly situated in the upper Midwest  have become nationally and internationally known. Salmela Architect showcases twenty-six completed buildings and sixteen current projects in lavish color photographs and architectural drawings  enabling readers to get a full sense of the practicality  ethnicity  and playfulness apparent in David Salmelas work. Architecture critic Thomas Fisher explores Salmelas propensity to draw from regional roots as he creates designs particular to individual places and cultures yet with universal appeal. Fisher illuminates this synchronicity with projects as prominent as the Gooseberry Falls Visitors Center and Wild Rice Restaurant as well as residential projects including the acclaimed Jackson Meadow community and photographer Jim Brandenburgs Ravenwood Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648222027829,"sku":"ByrdShop_0816642575","price":29.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780816642571.jpg?v=1781713282","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/salmela-architect-9780816642571","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}