{"product_id":"blanking-annotated-archive-projects-thoughts-architecture","title":"Blanking: An Annotated Archive of Projects and Thoughts on Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlanking\u003c\/em\u003e is the first monograph on Schaum\/Shieh, the Houston practice founded in 2009 by Troy Schaum and Rosalyne Shieh, and it takes an unusual form: an annotated archive of projects, drawings and the talk that surrounds them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost architectural thinking happens out loud—in the pinup, the client meeting, the walkthrough—and then evaporates. Schaum and Shieh's premise is that this spoken material is not incidental to the work but the medium in which projects are actually formulated. \u003cem\u003eBlanking\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Annotated Archive of Projects and Thoughts on Architecture \u003c\/em\u003ewrites it down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title is borrowed from metal fabrication, where a blank is a roughly sized piece of stock held in reserve—not yet cut or formed, but full of latent possibility. In the practice's usage it describes the collaborative formulation of ideas around a collection of terms and images that together make up a conceptual lexicon for practice. The books is organised into six thematic chapters — Geology, Void, Platform, Sets, Arrange, Fine — framed by essays from each principal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe first monograph on Houston practice Schaum\/Shieh, founded in 2009\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProjects and buildings drawn from 15 years of collaboration, with the majority of images published here for the first time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e198 colour and 89 black-and-white illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConversations with Stan Allen, Garnette Cadogan, Flavin Judd and Sarah Whiting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrganised into 10 chapters, each led by a thematic question\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow a practice operates within the city at the scale of the individual building\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe interrelation of materiality, units of form and building products as a tectonic problem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWays of collaborating with the existing life of a building in its context, and what preservation can mean in working practice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the informal talk of a studio can be treated as a legitimate form of architectural knowledge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTroy Schaum and Rosalyne Shieh are architects and educators, and the founding principals of Schaum\/Shieh Architects, established in Houston, Texas in 2009. Schaum is an associate professor at Rice University's School of Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 17 × 24 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 336\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9783038604006\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Park Books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublication Date: 2025\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePerfect For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArchitects and students interested in how practices actually think, readers following contemporary American architecture, and anyone drawn to books that treat process, conversation and unfinished material as worth publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Park Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48859696988385,"sku":"9783038604006","price":85.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/9783038604006_fbqpo6.jpg?v=1785968164","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/blanking-annotated-archive-projects-thoughts-architecture","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}