BUILDING IDEAS - MJP ARCHITECTS

'Buildings Ideas' the MJP monograph is a record of the practice's work since its inception in 1972.
Profusely illustrated with over 800 photographs and drawings ‘Building Ideas’ discusses and explains over 150 projects by the practice.
The book is not a conventional chronological account of projects described sequentially, but a series of themes, which engage with subjects such as geometry, history, conviviality, and materiality – each of which enables the projects to be examined in different ways.
The monograph includes an anthology of over 30 essays by Richard MacCormac; prefaces by Richard Murphy, Colin Stansfield Smith, Richard Burdett and Francis Duffy; and chapter introductory essays by Bryan Lawson, Robert Harbison, Richard Sennett, Margaret Richardson, Peter Davey and Richard Cork

Chapter headings :
Perspectives on MJP
1. Geometry, Pattern and Typology
2. History and Allusion
3. Conviviality
4. The Architecture of Learning
5. Structure and Materiality
6. Art and Architecture
Anthology
Buildings and Projects
Bibliography
Staff list

Building Ideas - MJP Architects
Edited by Ian Latham with texts by Nicola Jackson
Right Angle Publishing, London 2010.
256 pages, hardcover, ISBN 9780953284863
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Building Ideas was launched on Wednesday 6th October 2010
download images of the press launch event

MJP held a party for past+present members of the practice to celebrate the launch of Building Ideas on 13th October 2010.
download Richard MacCormac's launch party speech