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Adrian Luchini's drawings, models and photographs of his built and unbuilt work are featured in the latest "Contemporary World Architects" monograph. The juried library series is dedicated to presenting "new architectural talent from around the world" focusing on "emerging architects destined to be at the forefront of architecture in the next decade."
The book highlights 17 architectural projects by Luchini, director of architectural design at Sverdrup Facilities in St. Louis, and includes a foreword by noted architect Enric Miralles.
Luchini's international work ranges from a series of residences, each with their own distinct character, interaction with the landscape and sense of form in motion, to a Buenos Aires art museum with translucent, ethereal outer walls and an overall horizontal emphasis symbolizing the South American devotion to the land.
All of Luchini's projects underscore what architect Lauren Kogod refers to in the book's introduction as Luchini's "persistent attempt to create space out of expressive and almost physically gestural lines... a nervous or taut bundle of individual lines (that) coalesces into spatial figures and conjures spaces with ephemeral boundaries simultaneously from air and in air."
Luchini notes: "I draw what has shaped me, from the early days, full of dust in Argentina to the cacophony of adulthood in the United States. From the simplicity of an implacable horizon line... to the protocols of a profession increasingly confusing, and more and more difficult -- a cartography of pure desire and constant resistance."
The book includes Luchini's design work in the St. Louis region, such as the Maritz-Starek residence in the Central West End; interior for the KDNL (Channel 30) downtown offices and studio; renovation and new exterior for the Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist in Baden; World Omni Building corporate facility in the Riverport area; and a multi-modal facility, at the south end of the Kiel Auditorium.
