Peter Pran of Ellerbe Becket • Recent Works

Peter Pran of Ellerbe Becket • Recent Works

Architectural Monographs, No. 24
A Norwegian-born architect, Peter Pran is Senior Vice President and Design Principal of Ellerbe Becket, a leading international architecture-engineering firm that combines a conscious commitment of creating "cutting-edge architecture" with the financial security of one of the largest practices in the States. Pran calls himself a New Modernist, rejecting historicism as "not recognizing our own time", he worked with Mies van der Rohe on the Chicago Federal Center and the Berlin National Gallery. Pran's designs, with their curved surfaces and thin planes are characterized by a site-specific content and a poetic feeling of movement with its inherent sense of freedom.

With an essay by Kenneth Frampton and statements by Fumihiko Maki anbd Daniel Libeskind, this Monograph includes the characteristic models made from cardboard and metal as well as plans and photographs of built projects detailing the works produced to date by Pran at Ellerbe Becket. ‎

Academy Edition, Paperback, english, 144 pages