Clare Jacobson

As a go-to material for buildings for thousands of years, brick has a sense of tradition. But it is also a popular choice for contemporary architects looking for strength, variety, and sustainability. Folio features the most exciting new brick buildings in America, from brickwork emulating computer code in Rochester, to contemporary brick forms nodding to historic neighbours in Louisville, to rounded bricks creating a sculptural facade in New York. The book features work by some of today's most inspiring design firms: nARCHITECTS, Michael Maltzan Architecture, ODA New York, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Modus Studio, de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Cunningham | Quill Architects, Studio B, and Morris Adjmi Architects. From a single-family house in Denver to a massive office complex in Los Angeles, each project tells a unique story of how brick can be the foundation of the most creative design.

The digital collective teamLab, founded in Tokyo in 2001 by Toshiyuki Inoko, breaks established boundaries between the gallery and art world.This group-comprised of more than four hundred people including programmers, designers, and animators-creates immersive digital experiences outside of the realm of the traditional art world, navigating the confluence of art, technology, design, and the natural world. In many cases, it roots its imagery in historical Japanese art but uses the visual language of high-tech rendering and animation. Over the past few years, teamLab's projects have kept pace with technology and have evolved from two-dimensional screen-based animations to room-sized interactive installations.This book is a collection of essays, interviews and photographs exploring both the presence of teamLab's installations and the ideas and processes behind them. With a focus on the development of their work rather than the actual public displays, this book takes readers behind-the-scenes of a fascinating and thoroughly modern take on art.See the teamLab exhibit-the inaugural display in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco's new 9,500-square-foot exhibition pavilion: April 24 - September 7, 2020.