描述
British architect and designer John Pawson started his independent practice in 1981 and quickly grew his reputation through a minimalist aesthetic and projects that span a wide range of scales and building typologies. Including essays by Pawson, Deyan Sudjic, Julie V. Iovine, and Juhani Pallasmaa, this monograph focuses on his diverse projects between 1995 and 2022. More than 30 works are presented, from high-profile designs like the Sackler Crossing at Kew Gardens, the Jaffa Hotel and Residences, and the St Moritz Church in Ausburg, to houses, commercial works, and even yacht interiors. An essential guide to almost three decades of Pawson’s prolific practice.
Revised and updated edition of issues 127 and 158 dedicated to John Pawson. It includes the projects developed by the architect from 1995 to 2022.
John Pawson was born in 1949 in Halifax, Yorkshire. Following school and a period of employment in the family textile business he left for Japan, spending several years teaching English at the business university of Nagoya. Towards the end of his time there he moved to Tokyo, where he frequented the studio of Japanese architect and designer Shiro Kuramata. Never a formal apprentice, the experience nonetheless proved pivotal. Following his return to England, he enrolled at the Architecture Association in London, leaving to establish his own practice in 1981. In 2019 Pawson was awarded a CBE for services to design and architecture.
From the outset the work focused on exploring fundamental problems of space, proportion, light and materials, rather than on developing a set of stylistic mannerisms, beginning with renovation of the London apartment he shared with the art dealer Hester van Royen. Domestic commissions followed for the writer Bruce Chatwin, opera director Pierre Audi and art collector Doris Lockhart Saatchi, executed in parallel with a number of early art spaces, including Waddington Galleries in London and the PPOW Gallery in New York.
Whilst private houses have remained a consistent strand of the work, projects over the past two decades have spanned an increasingly wide range of scales and building typologies, from a walkway across the lake at Kew’s Royal Botanic Gardens on the outskirts of London, to the interiors of two yachts, sets for new ballets at London’s Royal Opera House and the Opéra Bastille in Paris, and remodelling of the former Commonwealth Institute in London, which opened as a new permanent home for the Design Museum in 2016. Pawson’s substantial portfolio of sacred commissions includes the design of a new Cistercian monastery in rural Bohemia, interior renovation of the basilica of the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma in Hungary and the St Moritz church in Bavaria and the design of a small wooden chapel on the edge of a forest in Germany.
Texts
The Simple Expression of Complex Thought.
John Pawson
Pause for Thought. A Conversation with John Pawson.
Deyan Sudijc
The Nature of Critical Dialogue.
Deyan Sudijc
A Conversation with John Pawson
Julie V. Iovine
John Pawson. The Translation of Thought into Space.
Julie V. Iovine
Matter, Hapticity, and Time.
Juhani Pallasmaa
Tilty Barn
Jigsaw Store
Pawson House
Walsh House
House in Germany
Monastery of Our
Lady of Novy Dvur
Lansdowne Apartments
Tetsuka House
Baron House
Lobby of the
Puerta América Hotel
Apartments at 50
Gramercy Park North
Design 1995 2005
Sackler Footbridge
House of Camaret
Sloop B60
Estate in Montemaggio
House in Los Angeles
The Martyrs Pavilion
Bottle House
Châteaux, Winery and
Art Foundation
Stone House
Perspectives Installation
Stage designs
Design 2006-2011
Palmgren House
Houses in St Tropez
St. Moritz Church
Montauk House
The Design Museum
Life House
Hotel and Apartments
in Jaffa
Wooden Chapel
House in Kitzbühel
Barbican Apartment
Cottage
St John-at-Hackney Church
Bastian Gallery
‘Looking for Light’
Design 2012-2020
