Michael Webb Hon. AIA/LA has authored 30 books on architecture and design, most recently California Houses: Creativity in Context; Architects’ Houses; and Building Community: New Apartment Architecture, while editing and contributing essays to a score of monographs.
Located in Gliwice, in Upper Silesia, the distinctive new head office for Gambit, a piping system distributor, was designed to express the Polish company’s function through its formInventive architecture can be found in the most unheralded locations.
Echoing the PVC piping that Gambit distributes, a metal fabrication company created a series of aluminium tubes, which were welded together and riveted to a frame , who founded KWK in 1999, describes himself as a conceptualist, looking for a defining idea at the start of every project. ‘We take a path, stick to it, and reject all unnecessary elements,’ he writes in a just-published monograph comprising 19 of his firm’s buildings. ‘Every step of the design must have an explanation,’ he says.
The offices have the profile of a mastaba, a truncated pyramid of mud blocks in which the nobility of ancient Egypt were buried. Artistsproposed a huge mastaba of multicoloured oil drums for Abu Dhabi in 1977, and realised the concept in London in 2018. Here, it plays off the pitched slate roofs of neighbouring houses and produces a shape that appears to shift subtly as you move around it.
‘Robert Konieczny, KWK Promes: Buildings + Ideas’, £50, by Robert Konieczny, edited by Philip Jodidio, is available from Images Publishing, while editing and contributing essays to a score of monographs. He is also a regular contributor to leading journals in the United States, Asia and Europe.
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