REBECCA L. BINDER

In a little over a decade, california architect Rebecca Binder's practice has produced an impressive quantity of institutional and commercial work, in addition to a diverse portfolio of domestic structures. The projects presented in this volume defy categorization and are adventurous both in form and in spatial arrangement.

"There is a kind of verisimilitude---a certainty---to Ms. Binder's production that is made manifest by her immensely diverse, ever-growing practice that, in just over 15 years, has caused a large number of institutional and commercial work to come about (in addition to the expected domestic work engaged in by most fledgling practices) all of which has preserved the immediacy implicit in what she does. In other words, the dangers of the shift of scale from small to large seems to have had little impact on the freshness of all that she puts her pencil to. From the earliest moments in her smallest houses---built and unbuilt alike---her architecture has exhibited an effervescence that is simply more than the place in which it is situated: and it is never, ever executed with an uncertain hand. It is that sureness, that deft way of courageously connecting forms---and materials---that characterizes what she does as a kind of unique signature." ~~~Stanley Tigerman, F.A.I.A.