Snøhetta publishes new monograph with Phaidon
Marking its 30th anniversary, "Snøhetta: Collective Intuition" explores the studio's most recent built projects
April 8, 2019 – Snøhetta’s first monograph in over a decade is released this spring, published in collaboration with Phaidon. Written in the studio’s own words, and paired with evocative photography and drawings, Snøhetta: Collective Intuition features 24 new essays on 24 projects from the last decade. Examining the works not merely as they were built, but also as they are lived, the book offers the studio’s understanding of their own work and how it has taken on a life of its own.
Founded in 1989 by Craig Dykers and Kjetil Traedel Thorsen, the studio is fundamentally concerned with the unique interactions between people and places. Snøhetta integrates multiple disciplines, including architecture, landscape, interior, graphic, and product design, and over the 30 years of its practice has established seven offices around the world.
The monograph investigates three core values in Snøhetta’s practice, organized loosely into three corresponding chapters: projects that were driven by the firm’s integration of disciplines, projects that produce new ways of understanding political space, and projects that open up new models for generosity and collective ownership in the design of the built environment.
Highlighted works include the Lascaux IV Caves Museum in Montignac, France; the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway; the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California; and the Muttrah Fish Market in Muscat, Oman.
Snøhetta: Collective Intuition also features the studio's founding partners in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries; as well as an interview with Gaute Brochmann, architect and editor-in-chief of Arkitektur N. Detailed architectural drawings and an illustrated chronology end the book, illuminating Snøhetta’s working process and the global reach of their work.
The book is available for purchase in bookstores globally, and online via phaidon.com/Snohetta.
Publication Date: April 3, 2019
Binding: Hardback
Extent: 256 pages
Illustrations: 200 color, 100 black-and-white
ISBN: 978 0 7148 7717 4
Size: 10 ⅝ x 8 ⅛ inches
Book Design: Studio Claus Due