Clocks and Clouds: The Architecture of Escher Gunewardena

[Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena] are, in part, scholars, artists, architectural historians, designers and architects. Don Albrecht, Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of the City of New York. Escher GuneWardena, founded in Los Angeles in 1996, reached international recognition through a range of projects: commercial spaces treated as conceptual art works; hillside residences representing poetic responses to particular site conditions; work in historic preservation including such icons as the Eames House and John Lautner's Chemosphere in Los Angeles. Their collaborations with artists such as Sharon Lockhart, Mike Kelley and Stephen Prina testify to their presence in the art world. Edited by Lilian Pfaff, Clocks and Clouds: The Architecture of Escher Gunewardena details the creation, expansion, and internationally recognized projects of Escher GuneWardena. With contributions by architects from around the world, this title is a comprehensive discussion on their processes of dreamy investigation on the way to precise materialization, and back again