C.E.S. Office – Martinez House: Main Room with fireplace, terrazzo floor and lounge table – Photographs

A long rectangular table with two benches, made out of wood, for the C.E.S. office in Martinez. All colored in gouache on top of a layer of gesso over the wood, and then coated with varnish.

Count Rumford all concrete fireplace, has a flat and broad fire chamber, a very wide opening and a curved fire back; the flatness results form the exceptionally narrow hearth, which is the cause for the high heat effectiveness.

Red, yellow and blue polished terrazzo floor with squares, diamonds and crosses made on a 400 sq. ft of a living room; with styrofoam lost form technique.

The second building completed on the Martinez site, was a 2,000 square feet house. A gunite all-concrete building as well, it was the first sizable and fully functional project in which C.E.S. used gunite, while applying all permit and specification ...

Since 1983, the annual Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award + Talk has been Philadelphia’s signature event honoring an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of architecture. The event celebrates these achievements in memory of the storied career of Philadelphia ...

The exhibit was conceived and arranged by members of the staff of the Depatment of Architecture at Cambridge, for celebrating and commemorating the fifty years association of Sandy Wilson with the University of Cambridge, Depatment of Architecture, thirty three of ...