The work of Emilio Ambasz, architect, museum curator, and industrial designer, defies easy categorization and analysis, and terms such as poetry, wonder, and myth are often ascribed to his designs. Ambasz is perhaps most renowned for projects that fuse architecture and landscape
'high-rise buildings enveloped in verdant screens of trees and plants, houses that virtually disappear beneath mounds of earth.
In this penetrating collection of essays, prominent
scholars and architects'Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Peter Hall, Catherine Ingraham, Dean MacCannell, Felicity D. Scott, Lauren Sedofsky, Anthony Vidler, James Wines, and Lebbeus Woods'take up the challenge and set about rigorously
'analyzing Ambasz.' The volume concludes with
Sorkin's interview with Ambasz and Emilio, the visionary and the pragmatic sides of the designer's personality. Photographs accompany this lively debate, which fills a gap in our understanding of Ambasz's work.