Twenty of the most recent projects of this long-standing architectural firm from New England are documented in detail.publiarq.com
Perry Dean Rogers is a long-established architectural firm based in Boston, New England. Their approach to architecture is complex, mature, and provocative. A major influence on the work of the office is its interest in context.
Founded in 1923, the firm has made a name for itself with its numerous buildings for educational institutions. In this volume, the most significant works of Perry Dean Rogers will be examined in six chapters, which explore different facets of their design approach. Amongst the works included are: the new Information Systems Building for Harvard University, a new library for the College of Wooster, Ohio, the renovation of two of Yale University's Colleges, a library for the university of Maryland, Baltimore and a visual arts center at the Groton School in Massachusetts. Because of their considerable experience in designing university buildings, Perry Dean Rogers have recently completed designing an entire college campus - the masterplan and the individual buildings - for the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts.
Michael J. Crosbie is a practising architect and architectural critic.
He is the former editor of Progressive Architecture and writes for Domus, Architectural Record
and Landscape Architecture. He
also teaches architecture at the Roger Williams University and is author of the book Cesar Pelli: Recent Themes.publiarq.com