Building Stories

Your decisions as an architecture project manager make your building. Whether the choices you make are about a particular detail, the structural system, or the building's mass, they are the result of many other decisions you and your colleagues have already made at many scales. Building Stories shows you how eleven buildings were really built by contemporary practices. Unpublished drawings, details, project schedules, and construction photos along with original and extensive interviews with the project managers integrate construction, structures, mechanical engineering, and professional practice so that you can see what it's like to build within small and large offices at all scales. Case studies include works by: Steven Holl; HWKN; Koning Eizenberg; Lewis Tsurumak Lewis; MADA spam; Monica Ponce de Leon; Office of Metropolitan Architecture; Peter Gluck; SHoP; Skidmore, Owings, and Merril; and Walker Workshop.