Angelo Candalepas: Buildings and Projects is the first full-scale monograph on one of Australia's most considered contemporary architects, tracing twenty-five years of built and unbuilt work through photographs, drawings, plans, and the architect's own hand sketches.
About This Book
This monograph maps the intellectual and formal development of Sydney-based Candalepas Associates — a practice whose work is shaped by a deep engagement with architectural heritage, from Louis I. Kahn and Carlo Scarpa to Le Corbusier, and from Glenn Murcutt and Richard Johnson to Colin Madigan. The selection moves between completed buildings and unrealised projects, the latter included precisely because they mark turning points in the firm's thinking. Essays by Alberto Campo Baeza and Laura Harding, alongside a text by Angelo Candalepas himself, contextualise the work within broader architectural discourse. For practitioners and students interested in the lineage of tectonic and spatial ideas in contemporary Australian architecture, this is essential reading.
Key Features
- 192 pages of photographs, plans, elevations, and hand-drawings spanning twenty-five years of practice
- Essays by Alberto Campo Baeza and Laura Harding, with a text by Angelo Candalepas
- Completed buildings presented alongside unrealised and forthcoming projects marking milestones in the firm's development
- Published by Park Books
What You'll Discover
- How Candalepas Associates draws on the spatial rigour of Kahn and the material precision of Scarpa to develop a distinctly contemporary Australian architecture
- The role of unrealised projects as conceptual milestones — and what they reveal about the firm's evolving design thinking
- Alberto Campo Baeza's critical reading of Candalepas's work, situating the practice within an international architectural conversation
- The trajectory of the firm's future direction, as reflected in projects not yet built at time of publication
About the Author
Angelo Candalepas is the founding principal of Sydney-based Candalepas Associates. His practice has won numerous awards over twenty-five years and has been widely published in international architecture magazines and journals. The firm's work has been recognised for its engagement with the ideas of past masters as well as with the traditions of eminent Australian architects.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 192
- Dimensions: 300 × 240 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783038601715
- Publisher: Park Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and students with an interest in Australian contemporary architecture, the influence of twentieth-century masters on current practice, and the relationship between built and unbuilt work in a maturing design studio.