Publication Features:

* A collection of 28 projects completed over nearly three decades gives readers thorough insight – both visually and conceptually – into the workof LA and Detroit-based firm Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects.

* An important contribution in a post-pandemic world, the book’s main goal is to spark creative ideas and important questions about how architecture can be used in political engagement, smart growth and social structures, in order to improve our urban landscapes and elevate the human condition.

* Texts by O’Herlihy (Foreword), Frances Anderton (Introduction), Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne and Greg Goldin (project narratives and Afterword) are accompanied by illustrations and renderings by LOHA, and photography by Iwan Baan, Lawrence Anderson, Paul Vu, and others.

* The book is organized chronologically (starting in the 1990s and ending in 2020) and broken up into six sections, each representing a tipping point for the practice – periods in which LOHA’s work was launched in new directions that brought new sets of challenges, all of which parallel significant historical events.

* Readers will gain insight into the practice’s process when engaging a new project/site; understanding its history and context, and how itis informed by the culture and ecology of the people who live there.