{"product_id":"9781606064511","title":"Outside in: The Architecture of Smith and Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 1946 to 1973, Whitney Rowland Smith and his partner, Wayne Williams, designed more than 800 projects, from residential, commercial, and public buildings to housing tracts, multi-use complexes, and parks and master plans for cities. Working in the wake of the first generation of avant-garde architects in Southern California and riding the postwar building boom, their firm, Smith and Williams, developed a pragmatic modernism that, through remarkable planning and design, integrated landscapes with buildings and decisively shaped the modern vocabulary of architecture in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Through a breathtaking array of images, \u003ci\u003eOutside In\u003c\/i\u003e unveils the core of Smith and Williams’s architectural practice. Their most influential designs, the authors show, are compositions of balanced opposites: shelter and openness, private and public, restraint and exuberance, light and shadow. Smith and Williams created spaciousness in their buildings by layering spaces and manipulating the relationship between structure and landscape. This spaciousness expressed modern ideas about the relationship of architecture to environment, of building to\u003cbr\u003e site, and, ultimately, of outside to in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Getty Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041724776688,"sku":"9781606064511","price":35.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781606064511_p0.jpg?v=1763834964","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781606064511","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}