"JONES STUDIO HOUSES Sensual Modernism" is a self-imposed limited look at the 40-year-plus career of Eddie Jones. Almost unheard of outside the southwest United States, Jones has quietly accumulated a body of work ranging beyond residential design to include major federal projects impacting the edges of America... to be featured in a soon to be published monograph! Supported by Aaron Betsky's insightful forward, plus an enlightening interview with Vladimir Belogolovsky, and comments from many of his famous colleagues, Jones summarizes his lifelong dance with architecture through the personal stories embedded in each house. Refusing to repeat himself, the work tests the reality of gravity on a diverse spectrum of interpretive vernacular responses to climate, landscape and function. Although designed by the same hand, the forms vary as much as the choice of materials. Rammed earth, concrete, wood and metal are explored together and separately yet remain subordinate to Jones' fascination with glass. Utilizing photographs, hand-drawings and first-person accounts, the motivations and joy of being an architect are expressed by an exceptional whole informed by many ordinary parts.
About the Author: Vladimir Belogolovsky was born in Odessa, Ukraine on August 7, 1970. He graduated from The Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1996. He is the founder of the New York-based Intercontinental Curatorial Project (est. 2008), which focuses on curating and designing architectural and conceptual exhibitions worldwide. Belogolovsky is the American correspondent for architectural journals Arquitectura Viva (Madrid) and SPEECH (Berlin). He has his interviews column on ArchDaily and is a corresponding member of the International Academy of Architecture in Moscow (IAAM). His books include Conversations with Peter Eisenman: The Evolution of Architectural Style (DOM, 2016); Conversations with Architects in the Age of Celebrity (DOM, 2015); Harry Seidler: LIFEWORK (Rizzoli, 2014); Felix Novikov (DOM, 2013; TATLIN, 2009); Soviet Modernism: 1955-1985 (TATLIN, 2010); Green House (TATLIN, 2009). In addition to Harry Seidler: Painting Toward Architecture exhibition world tour, he has curated: Emilio Ambasz: Architecture Toward Nature (Singapore, 2017); City of Ideas at the University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia, 2016) and Chicago Design Museum (Chicago, USA, 2016); Sergei Tchoban: Bridges & Spires at InCite Gallery (Bangalore, India, 2016); Anthony Ames: Object-Type Landscapes at Casa Curutchet (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015); Colombia: Transformed (American tour, 2012-15); a retrospective of architect Ángel Fernández Alba at the Royal Botanical Gardens (Madrid, 2009); Green House at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall (Moscow, 2009); Chess Game at Russian Pavilion (Foreign Section) at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice, Italy, 2008). He has lectured at Columbia University, the University of Virginia, Hong Kong University, Moscow Architectural Institute, the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Tongji University in Shanghai, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and other universities and museums in more than 30 countries. Oscar Riera Ojeda RIERA OJEDA, OSCAR is an editor and designer based in the US, China, and Argentina. Born in 1966, in Buenos Aires, he moved to the United States in 1990. Since then he has published over two hundred books, assembling a remarkable body of work notable for its thoroughness of content, timeless character, and sophisticated and innovative craftsmanship. Oscar Riera Ojeda's books have been published by many prestigious publishing houses across the world, including Birkhäuser, Byggförlaget, The Monacelli Press, Gustavo Gili, Thames & Hudson, Rizzoli, Damiani, Page One, ORO editions, Whitney Library of Design, and Taschen. Oscar Riera Ojeda is also the creator of numerous architectural book series, including Ten Houses, Contemporary World Architects, The New American House and The New American Apartment, Architecture in Detail, and Single Building. His work has received many international awards, in-depth reviews, and citations. He is a regular contributor and consultant for several publications in the field.