Name: All the Queens Houses: An Architectural Portrait of New York's Largest and Most Diverse Borough
ISBN: 9783868596564

All the Queens Houses: An Architectural Portrait of New York's Largest and Most Diverse Borough

Rafael A. Herrin-Ferri

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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

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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".

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Zora O'Neill 🦔

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Was just looking at my Tumblr of weird Astoria buildings, and that reminded me: if you have a lover of popular architecture, or a Queens resident, on your list, this book wd be a great gift. Unlike me, Herrin-Ferri had patience to take actual good photos:

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Today on the blog, @K80Uva reviews @RHerrinFerri's architectural portrait of Queens, All the Queens Houses. Review: All the Queens Houses: An Architectural Portrait of New York’s Largest and Most Diverse Borough, by Rafael Herrin-Ferri https://t.co/4kvzjcpMEU

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📅Join us tomorrow as photographer and author Rafael Herrin-Ferri will discussed his book “All the Queens Houses: An Architectural Portrait of New York’s Largest and Most Diverse Borough”. https://t.co/8t1lqt5lid

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Praise for this book

"An
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)

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Zora O'Neill 🦔

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2 years

Zora O'Neill is a food and travel writer.

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