Publisher Description

Architecture influences the way we live and the way we live influences architecture. Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects - Architecture Is a Social Act explores these two ideas at the core of LOHA's work and shows how one informs the other. The book features 25 projects from across two decades and two continents, ranging in scope from housing projects and commercial complexes to cultural landmarks and master-planned communities. Each project demonstrates how the firm responds to the political, economic, and environmental forces that are shaping today's cities by crafting architecture that offers a sense of place and belonging in a rapidly changing world.

Author Biography

Lorcan O'Herlihy, founder and principal of LOHA, seeks opportunities to engage the ever-changing complexities of the urban landscape while embracing architecture as a catalyst of change. His professional practice has run in parallel to his academic and intellectual pursuits, enriching and heightening both.

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Good architecture is no longer about simply designing a building as an isolated object, but about meeting head-on the forces that are shaping today's world.

Long Description

* A collection of 28 projects completed over nearly three decades gives readers thorough insight - both visually and conceptually - into the work of LA and Detroit-based firm Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects* An important contribution in a post-pandemic world, the book's main goal is to spark creative ideas and important questions about how architecture can be used in political engagement, smart growth and social structures, in order to improve our urban landscapes and elevate the human condition* Texts by O'Herlihy (Foreword), Frances Anderton (Introduction), Sin

Description for Sales People

*A collection of 25 projects completed over 20 years gives readers thorough insight - both visually and conceptually - into the work of LA and Detroit-based firm Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects.*Written by award-wining architect Lorcan O'Herlihy, the book features contributions by architecture critic and curator Greg Goldin and journalist, author, and radio host Frances Anderton.*The book's main goal is to spark creative ideas and important questions about how architecture can be used in political engagement, smart growth and social structures, in order to improve our urban landscapes and elevate the human condition.*An overarching timeline running throughout the book will point out political and social events have shaped the context in which the projects were developed.*Contains inspirational and informative materials, including conversations with clients, residents and colleagues, letters, sketches, excerpts from O'Herlihy's older essays/writings, and images of how projects have been activated by people and the public through events and performances, for example.

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