Our new book KieranTimberlake: Inquiry has been selected as one of Phil Patton’s favorite books of 2011! Patton writes about design and cars for The New York Times. View the list here, and take a look inside the book here.

Cover image: Atwater Commons, Middlebury College, photo by Barry Halkin

KieranTimberlake is happy to announce the release of a new monograph, KieranTimberlake: Inquiry, written by Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake, and Karl Wallick, and published by Rizzoli. The book is a reflection on the last decade of inquisitive approaches to our clients’ needs, as well as the needs of the environment, and how that has broadened our vision of the relationship between process, craft, and form. This volume offers a glimpse into how the environment, energy, the economics of construction, and processes of collaboration inform KieranTimberlake’s practice.

The sample spreads below demonstrate the organization of the book. Projects are shown in fragments, organized around ten gerunds: bending, coupling, filtering, inserting, offsetting, outlining, overlapping, puncturing, reflecting, tuning. At once noun and verb, they describe creative acts of making on multiple levels. The fragmentation of projects reinforces that the work of KieranTimberlake extends across sites, histories, and cultures as interrelated systems that have individual characteristics articulated within the whole.

Pages 14-15, Yale University School of Art Gallery

Pages 68-69, Sidwell Friends Middle School

Pages 146-147, Railing details at several projects

Page 247, Noyes Community Recreation Center, Cornell University

Page 248, 1315 Hill Street Apartments, Ann Arbor, Michigan

This volume features nineteen projects:

1315 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, MI
420N20 Street, Philadelphia, PA
Atwater Commons, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Cellophane House™, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Durham Academy Lower School, Durham, NC
Embassy of the United States of America, London, United Kingdom
LivingHomes KTLH 1.5, Newport Beach, CA
Loblolly House, Taylors Island, MD
Special NO 9 House, Make it Right, New Orleans, LA
Melvin J. and Claire Levine Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Theatre Company, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
Sidwell Friends Middle School, Washington, DC
SmartWrap™
Wellesley College, Houghton Chapel and Multifaith Center, Wellesley, MA
West Campus Residential Initiative, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Yale University Residential College Renovations, New Haven, CT
Yale University Sculpture Building, New Haven, CT

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Please join us on October 5 at 5:30 PM for a lecture and book launch reception at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, to celebrate the release of KieranTimberlake: Inquiry. The book will be available in stores beginning September 20, 2011.

Visit the Athenaeum of Philadelphia website for more information about the lecture and to purchase tickets.

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

Last December, Katherine Grove of William McDonough + Partners and Richard Maimon, of Kieran Timberlake, shared the stage at Ecobuild in Washington, DC. They were invited to discuss their work at the Make It Right project in New Orleans, where Cradle to Cradle provides a framework for the design of the community and of individual homes by several firms. Continue reading>>