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You’ve heard of the “Starchitects.” Now meet the “Marketects.” This monograph spans all twenty-five years of Powers Brown Architecture and evinces why all clients deserve good design.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Marketecture,” a term coined by Powers Brown Architecture as an antithesis to the “Starchitecture,” is a market-driven strategy for striving for the best design solutions for all clients. Through this bottom-up approach, Powers Brown seeks cutting-edge solutions that elevate a seemingly mundane building type beyond client expectations. Its dedication to working with clients to develop cost-effective, market-driven buildings without sacrificing good design has resulted in a broad range of commercial projects that respond to everyday pragmatics while still exhibiting strong architectural ideas and developing new technologies along the way.<\/p>\n

In Powers Brown Architecture: Commodity and Virtue in Architecture<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>the firm presents a curated collection of work that spans its entire twenty-five years in practice and includes projects not covered in earlier publications. The body of work evinces the disciplined structure of the practice itself over a predominant style or form. <\/p>\n

Projects such as Hillel Student Center in Washington, D.C. and the Transit Terminal in Galveston, Texas showcase the firm’s approach to public work. Frank’s International and Seismic Exchange explore the possibilities of corporate architecture to create place as much as to make a statement. Arabella showcases the potential for variety, rather than repetition, in a condominium building, and the Thompson Hotel & Arts Residences in San Antonio navigates pedestrian scale in a twenty-storey tower. POST covers the commitment to resiliency and the future of the planet, while MEDDNet™ transforms urban design tactics into a national-scale disaster relief strategy.<\/p>\n

The introduction is by journalist Stephen Sharpe, who has covered Powers Brown’s work for nearly twenty years. An extended essay by principal Jeffrey Brown, FAIA, situates the firm’s position at the conversational threshold of scepticism about “Starchitecure” and the reality of everyday architecture, or “Marketecture.” Architecture professor and author Donna Kacmar, FAIA, interviews Brown to reveal the details behind the firm and its work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This in-depth monograph spans the entire 25 years of Powers Brown Architecture’s practice, and includes projects not previously covered in earlier publications, suhc as the Hillel Student Center in Washington, D.C. and the Transit Terminal in Galveston, Texas on the historic Strand.
7 Innovating Toward Excellence
\nStephen Sharpe
\n12 Mining for Virtue in Commodification
\nJeffrey Brown, FAIA
\nPrivate
\n28 Frank’s
\n36 Pavilion
\n38 Seismic
\nPublic
\n44 W & J
\n52 Sunnyside
\n54 Hillel
\n60 Highlands
\nPark
\n64 Roy Kelly
\n76 Galveston
\n84 UHG
\nHome
\n96 Arabella
\n104 Innovation
\n106 Marlowe
\nStay
\n116 Hemisfair
\n118 Thompson
\n130 Breeze
\nRecycle
\n134 Stratford
\n136 Red Gap
\n138 POST
\nSystems
\n146 MEDDNet™
\n150 Mall
\nCompact
\n156 Intermarine
\n164 BMO
\n166 Jewel
\n168 Gatehouse
\n170 Pinch
\nTilt
\n176 Monument
\n184 Arch-Con
\n186 GeoForm™
\n190 Woodlands
\n194 CUC
\nRent
\n202 Hamilton
\n206 Sandrock
\n208 Campus
\n210 Ivy
\n212 Churchill
\nInside
\n216 Summit
\n222 Logica
\n226 Verafin
\n230 Interview
\n236 Rear View
\n238 Acknowledgments
\n240 Project Credits
\n244 Recognition
\n248 Biographies
\n250 Firm Profile
\n252 Collaborators List<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":49022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5601],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49021","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-architecture-landscape-design","7":"author-by-author-powers-brown-architecture","8":"author-introduction-by-stephen-sharpe","9":"publisher-the-images-publishing-group","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPowers Brown Architecture - 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