Quik Build: Adam Kalkin's ABC of Container Architecture
Edited by Will McLean
Essays by Barry Bergdoll, Alastair Gordon and Will McLean
Designed by Mark Boyce
144 pp
340 x 225 x 21mm Landscape
Binding: Thread sewn, Case bound hardcover
ISBN 978-0-9558868-0-5
First Published: October 2008, Bibliotheque McLean, London
Adam Kalkin’s Quik House is at once one of the most viable pre-fabricated systems available
today
– it provides a spacious dwelling, with elements of consumer customization with the
most efficient reduction of both energy waste and of cost in every iteration
– and a conceptual artistic stance that has yet to have run the full course of
shifting and evolving meanings.
” Barry Bergdoll - Museum of Modern Art, NYC
US architect Adam Kalkin began utilising the steel-shipping container in
selected projects circa 2000 exemplified in the iconic Quik House. This book
features 32 fully illustrated projects, many previously unpublished. Projects
range from the hydraulically powered Pandora
’s box of the Push Button House, the industrial civility of the Adriance House
and the thoughtful expediency of the Refugee Village and FEMA housing concepts.
Divided into three sections and generously illustrated with orthographic
drawings, renders, colour photography and Kalkin
’s own hieroglyphs this beautifully produced book encapsulates the extraordinary
and idiosyncratic range and quality of Kalkin
’s work. The opening section of the book contains accompanying essays from Barry
Bergdoll (Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture
& Design, Museum of Modern Art, NYC), Alastair Gordon (regular contributor to the
New York Times, author of several books, including
Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties and Naked Airport) and editor Will McLean.
