Morphosis/Diamond Ranch High School represents the first installment in Source Books in Architecture, a new series from The Monacelli Press, based on the Herbert Baumer Seminars hosted at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University. These publications will focus on master architects and special topics in contemporary architecture.publiarq.com
Morphosis/Diamond Ranch High School opens with an interview withThom Mayne, founder and principal of the avant-garde California architecture firm Morphosis. The interview outlines Mayne's working methods and chronicles his development as an architect from his years as a student through the realization of such influential projects as the widely published Crawford House. This is followed by a presentation of a single project, Diamond Ranch High School, at a level of detail not normally found in architectural monographs. Here every crucial architectural decision is extensively illustrated with conceptual sketches, key working drawings, and photographs of the project under construction and after completion.publiarq.com