Article: Books.(Framework: Gluckman Mayner Architects)(Book review)

Edited by Stanley Abercrombie

Framework: Gluckman Mayner Architects

by Richard Gluckman

New York: Monacelli Press, $50

232 pages, 220 illustrations (200 color)

Framework may seem a curious title for an architectural monograph. But Gluckman Mayner Architects is best known for its museums and galleries, buildings that, in some way, frame their contents. The firm's characteristic minimalism, according to this book's introduction by University of Pennsylvania architecture professor Detlef Mertins, is the result of Richard Gluckman "learning from a certain species of minimalist art" as he realized that artists such as Dan Flavin ...

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