Architectural Record Selects The People's Architect as a Recommended Book for the Gift-Giving Season

December 05, 2024
11 2024 Arch Record Book Recs

Barney’s gift for design­ing places and spaces where peo­ple con­gre­gate en masse tru­ly does run the gamut.” Matt Hickman

Archi­tec­tur­al Record has select­ed The People’s Archi­tect Car­ol Ross Bar­ney as one of their rec­om­mend­ed books for the gift-giv­ing season. 

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The People’s Archi­tect: Car­ol Ross Bar­ney.
Intro­duc­tion by Iker Gil. Oscar Riera Oje­da Pub­lish­ers, 200 pages, $55.

She works in a wide range of scales and across typolo­gies, always thought­ful, deter­mined, and empa­thet­ic,” writes Iker Gill in this 13-work sur­vey-slash-salute to archi­tect Car­ol Ross Bar­ney pub­lished fol­low­ing her AIA Gold Medal win. Indeed, Barney’s gift for design­ing places and spaces where peo­ple con­gre­gate en masse tru­ly does run the gamut; show­cased in the book are syn­a­gogues and ele­vat­ed tran­sit sta­tions, fed­er­al build­ings and super­sized fast-food flag­ships, and, as hint­ed on the cov­er, trans­for­ma­tive urban parks, includ­ing the Chica­go River­walk. — Matt Hick­man

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