Graphic Standards Details: Exceptional Openings

This volume showcases a variety of contemporary architectural approaches to entrances and openings, with examples that cover a wide range of budgets, environmental constraints, and artistic visions. Twenty-four projects were chosen from an open competition of contemporary leading architects, and each project selected is described briefly and illustrated generously with color photographs, plans, elevations, and finely drawn details that show how the opening was constructed. The book is divided into sections by opening type: operable walls, vestibules, gateways, interior transitions, canopies, and sculptural elements. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

WENDY TALARICO is an architectural journalist with more than twenty years of writing and editorial experience. She's an expert in the fields of architecture and architectural technology, building science, construction, and sustainable design. She's written for Metropolis, Architectural Record, This Old House, the Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.

SMITH MARAN ARCHITECTS (SMA) is an award-winning partnership founded in 1997 and based in Montclair, New Jersey. SMA intentionally seeks to satisfy a wide range of design needs. In addition to creating distinctive public and private environments, the firm specializes in developing architectural, industrial, and graphic design solutions for businesses and institutions seeking to define or reconceive their public image. SMA is recognized for identifying and enriching the intrinsically unique conditions—site, program, identity—of any given project.