KieranTimberlake is pleased to announce a new book, Cellophane House™

Released in January 2011 as a digital book, it is now offered in paperback, available for purchase on Amazon.com and at select bookstores worldwide including:

AIA Bookstore, Philadelphia
Builders Bookstore, Berkeley
Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles
Joseph Fox Bookstore, Philadelphia
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
National Building Museum Shop, Washington DC
Peter Miller Books, Seattle
Quimby's, Chicago
RIBA Bookshop, London
Wexner Center Store, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
William Stout, San Francisco

With 110 illustrations and detailed commentary, the book chronicles the design and execution of a five-story, off-site fabricated home assembled on-site in just sixteen days as part of The Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. Through a series of questions, the book explores several of KieranTimberlake’s ongoing research agendas including speed of on-site assembly, design for disassembly, a holistic approach to the life cycle of materials, and the development of a lightweight, high-performance, energy gathering building envelope.

PAPERBACK | 156 pages | 5.875” x 8.25” | 110 color illustrations | ISBN: 978-0-9831301-3-0 | $20 US | May 2011

Also available electronically on Amazon, iBooks and Google Books. Compatible with iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle, Android, Mac and PC  | $9.99 US | Jan 2011

The New London Embassy design competition exhibit officially opened today at the headquarters of the American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C. The exhibit is open to the public through June 30th, weekdays from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, at 1735 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC. Admission is free.

The exhibit celebrates the completion of the design competition to select the architect for the New London Embassy for the United States of America. Models and information boards from the final four competing architectural firms, KieranTimberlake, Morphosis Architects, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Richard Meier & Partners will be on display as well as the model of the current London Embassy designed by Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen in the late 1950's.

The built detail (left) and the reconstructed detail (right)

KieranTimberlake constructed a full scale critical detail of Loblolly House in our Philadelphia shop, now on display at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's National Design Triennial, Why Design Now? exhibition, on view from May 14-January 9, 2011.

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Eero Saarinen with a model of Morse and Stiles Colleges, courtesy Yale University Archive

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, the first retrospective on the Finnish-born architect, is currently on view in New Haven, Connecticut through May 2. The tour concludes at Yale, where Saarinen studied architecture and designed some of his most significant buildings and where the major archive devoted to his work resides.

Details of our current renovation of Saarinen's Morse and Ezra Stiles College are included in the exhibition. The project includes the restoration and renovation of all existing facilities, the reconfiguration and updating of living quarters, and the addition of a below grade, naturally-lit, 30,000-square-foot common space, all while retaining Saarinen's original design intent. Morse College, named for Samuel F.B. Morse (Yale, 1810), artist, physician, and inventor of the electric telegraph, and its companion, Stiles College, named for Ezra Stiles (Yale, 1746), theologian, lawyer, scientist, philosopher, and Yale president, were conceived as a single design, intended to be both responsive to and distinct from Yale's other residential colleges.

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