RALPH JOHNSON OF PERKINS+WILL

The work of Chicago architect Ralph Johnson explores the use of restrained modernism to enrich and clarify complex programmatic buil dings with intriguing assemblies that reveal their functions and hierarchical relationships. Johnsons goal is to form, through the social art of architecture, an urban environment of buildings that are good civic neighbors as well as distinguished citizens. The p rojects in this book, both built and unbuilt, represent his concern for humanistic values and emphasis on process rather than precon ceived pro...[Read more]