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All the Queens Houses: An Architectural Portrait of New York's Largest and Most Diverse Borough
The borough of Queens has long been celebrated as the melting pot of America. It was the birthplace of North American religious freedom in the seventeenth century, hosted two World's Fairs in the twentieth, and is currently home to over a million foreign-born residents participating in the American experience. In 2013, Spanish-born artist and architect Rafael Herrin-Ferri began to paint a portrait of the "World's Borough"--not with images of its diverse population, or its celebrated international food scene, but with photographs of its highly idiosyncratic housing stock. While All the Queens Houses is mainly a photography book celebrating the broad range of housing styles in New York City's largest and most diverse county, it is also a not-so-subtle endorsement of a multicultural community that mixes global building traditions into the American vernacular, and by so doing breathes new life into its architecture and surrounding urban context.
With an introductory essay by Joseph Heathcott
Book Details
- Publisher: Jovis Verlag
- Publish Date: Oct 15th, 2021
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.10in - 4.70in - 0.90in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9783868596564
- Categories: • Individual Architects & Firms - General• Regional• Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial
About the Author
Herrin-Ferri, Rafael A.: - Rafael Herrin-Ferri is a Spanish-born architect and artist living in Woodside, Queens. He received a B.Arch from Cornell University in 1996 and worked in several architectural studios in San Francisco and Barcelona before settling in New York in 2003. His longstanding interest in vernacular architecture led him to initiate an independent photographic survey of his home borough in 2013 titled "All the Queens Houses".
Praise for this book
"An
impressive collection featuring thousands of captivating photographs that
chronicled his amazing odyssey." Tammy Scileppi (qns.com)
impressive collection featuring thousands of captivating photographs that
chronicled his amazing odyssey." Tammy Scileppi (qns.com)
"These houses -- often single-family dwellings and duplexes -- display an
eclecticism that can't easily be categorized, and they're shown off
beautifully in this traipse around the borough" (The Best New Books to Give Architecture, Design, and Urbanism Enthusiasts by curbed.com)
eclecticism that can't easily be categorized, and they're shown off
beautifully in this traipse around the borough" (The Best New Books to Give Architecture, Design, and Urbanism Enthusiasts by curbed.com)