Joe Biondo - Architect - Book release & lecture

Joe Biondo, architect and designer of Lafayette's award winning Williams Visual Arts Building and Ahart Plaza on North 3rd Street will present his newly released book, House Equanimity. His lecture, THE PROCESS OF MAKING, will be an overview of influential projects and attitudes on architecture culminating with the process of making House Equanimity.

"Not all masterpieces scream for attention. Some wait with patience, with composure, for their genius to be felt. Joseph Biondo's Equanimity House is just such a work of art; the exceptional, hiding in plain sight. Born of a tectonic language, the structure is built to coalesce with its surroundings, becoming one with the rolling topography of its site. A mature, elegant, considered work of great beauty, Biondo has achieved the apogee of his exploration of ordinary materials in extraordinary ways. As he says, 'To heighten one's awareness of a humble material can be poetic'. A sensorial tone poem, this is a house that is felt, rather than viewed, driving the senses that intuit gravity, temperature, interaction, texture, and aesthetics.

Excerpt from House Equanimity, Oscar Riera Ojeda publishing 2018