If you meet Craig Hodgetts, it’s hard not to be swept up by his general enthusiasm—not just about architecture, but about people, cars, cities, and surfing. That gusto permeates his writings, which span nearly half a century, condensed and collected into this volume. Divided into four categories—polemics, projects, people, and performances—the book unveils the ideas and possibilities that have influenced Hodgetts’s architectural work.
As the practice of Hodgetts and Hsinming Fung, partner (and wife), has grown—from its founding as H+F in 1984 to its current merger with Mithun—so have the texts that begin with his early-career efforts with Los Angeles architect Robert Mangurian. One essay is a testament to the negotiating skills of both Hodgetts and Fung: though Hodgetts, as the outgoing associate dean, thoroughly lambasted the architecture at the California Institute of the Arts campus in Valencia in a 1973 Art Forum article, the couple still ended up with the school as the client for their Wild Beast Pavilion for music some 30 years later.
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