{"product_id":"thought-by-hand-the-architecture-of-flores-prats-9786077784753","title":"Thought by Hand: The Architecture of Flores \u0026 Prats","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the award-winning Catalan architecture studios unique combination of material craft and avant-garde dynamism Argentinian architect Ricardo Flores (born 1965) and Spanish architect Eva Prats (born 1965) began their artistic partnership with the foundation of their studio in Barcelona in 1998. Since its conception  Flores \u0026amp; Prats has operated according to a design ethos that fuses craft with academia  approaching research and scholarship as a living practice that must result in the responsibility to make and to build. The studio has taken on a variety of projects with diverse functions in social housing  public spaces and university workshops. This volume compiles photography and analysis of Flores \u0026amp; Prats best-known projects  such as the Museum of the Mills  Campus Microsoft Italia  and the New Theater Sala Beckett. Also included are examinations of the studios experiments with portability  their use of film as a vehicle for architectural documentation and their recent menus of edible architecture created for special exhibitions in Barcelona and Copenhagen. Readers are guided through every stage of a single projects evolution from early sketches to detailed models to final construction. In addition to reproductions of such process material  Thought by Hand includes writing by a variety of artists influenced by Flores \u0026amp; Prats  including the Sala Beckett theaters director Toni Casares and renowned urban planner Manuel de Sol-Morales.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665809760309,"sku":"ByrdShop_6077784753","price":85.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9786077784753.jpg?v=1782408139","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/thought-by-hand-the-architecture-of-flores-prats-9786077784753","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}