Monograph Launch! "Sparano + Mooney Architecture: A Way of Working"
Sparano + Mooney Architecture is a community of architects and craftspeople in the American West, celebrating 25 years of great design in 2022. In honor of the firm’s portfolio, a monograph titled Sparano + Mooney Architecture: A Way of Working has been published by Hatje Cantz (Berlin).
Coffee and a book: Anne Mooney and John Sparano peruse “Sparano + Mooney Architecture: A Way of Working”
Available for purchase now, the book highlights the dialogue between concept and location found in the firm’s work, as well as the architects’ commitment to sustainable and innovative buildings that are embedded harmoniously into spectacular mountain landscapes. The team's architectural solutions are rooted in tradition and history while also embracing cutting-edge technology, materials and details to reflect and elevate the broad communities the architecture serves. The studio’s collaborative process responds to overwhelming natural surroundings with restrained forms and innovative detailing of materials. This first monograph of the firm’s work offers an insightful perspective on developing architecture that thrives on – and is grounded within – the relationship between concept and place.
Together with a dedicated team, Sparano + Mooney Architecture is a collective of architects, clients, colleagues, makers and like-minded peers that shares a passion for design and sustainability in all that they do. The practice has grown steadily since its inception through the process of rigorous critical thinking and the completion of a wide range of architectural solutions. Carefully crafted at multiple scales, for various functions and to elicit a multitude of emotions, their work catalyzes the idiosyncrasies of each project to create a concept-driven design in the pursuit of architecture true to its time, place and circumstances. From micro off-the-grid projects, adaptive re-use of historic structures, and new-build institutional, commercial, cultural and worship buildings, to residential, civic, recreation and mixed-use projects, as well as master planning and urban design ventures, their portfolio of contemporary design work can be found throughout California, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico and beyond.
The firm’s ethos is one of limitless exploration and an unwavering commitment to the heuristic process in creating architecture rooted firmly in meaning. With each project, the practice examines new ways to harmonize a regulating concept with the existing conditions of a site, program and fundamental building functions. Rather than imposing preconceived notions onto unique sites and environmental conditions, the eccentricities of any given program and site become the point of departure for that foundational idea. While anchoring each work in its specific circumstance, Sparano + Mooney Architecture endeavors to obtain a more meaningful response to one of the essential questions of architecture: Why?
Sparano + Mooney Architecture: A Way of Working explores this central question and to detail the firm’s heuristic design process. Ten key projects and associated images, drawings and a series of essays are presented, which tie the work to vernacular ideals and land art. Finding meaningfulness in everyday materials rendered extraordinary through creativity and craft, the book investigates what it means to work within the context of the American West.
The firm is delighted to have had the opportunity to collaborate with many individuals on the production of this book, a tactile object in its own right. Contributors include acclaimed architecture author Michael Webb and art historian Hikmet Sidney Loe, with graphic design by Salt Lake City-based Studio Michael Aberman. Project management and production was provided by Dorothee Hahn and Stefanie Kruszyk, respectively, at Hatje Cantz Berlin. The team at Sparano + Mooney Architecture is thrilled to present this publication as a record of its dedication to the profession, and the tireless pursuit of great design.
Promotional Events
Scheduled events will include the Salt Lake City launch in Fall 2022:
Salt Lake DesignWeek open studio event at Sparano + Mooney Architecture with the architects and book designer, Michael Aberman, will take place on Wednesday, October 19th from 5-7pm. A presentation will take place at 6pm, highlighting the collaborative process in the design and production of the book. Address: 57 W 2100 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84115 (parking on Richards Street)
The King’s English Bookshop monograph launch event will take place on Friday, November 4th from 6-7pm. Address: 1511 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84105
The Los Angeles/West Coast launch is scheduled to take place in Spring 2023 – please contact us for further information.
Book Details
Sparano + Mooney Architecture: A Way of Working
ISBN 978-3-7757-5058-5
Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH
Mommsenstraße 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
www.hatjecantz.com