#BookList #Interview with Gregory Mottola, FAIA of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects




Gregory Mottola, FAIA
of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects
Photo: Chad Ziemandorf


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Stillwater Vista Residence,
Carmel, California
Architect: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Materials: Blomberg Windows
Photo: Matthew Millman


Caymus-Suisun Winery, 
Suisun Valley, California
Architect: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Materials: Blomberg Windows
Photo: Matthew Millman






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Greg Mottola, FAIA is a Principal leading Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s San Francisco studio. His human-centered design philosophy springs from a belief that powerful architecture must elevate the user experience, lift the spirit, and foster community.  His design work considers the project’s particular context: its place, culture, and climate to create exceptional buildings that resonate.  This approach furthers their award-winning practice’s reputation for sensitivity to landscape and context, the nature of people and culture, and the innovative use of material in response to circumstance.

 

He works at a variety of project scales and typologies ranging from large institutional buildings, commercial, retail and hospitality projects, to extraordinary private residences. The throughline for this range of work is an approach that carefully considers occupant experience—one that delights all the senses and contributes to resonating, emotionally powerful architecture balanced by technical rigor and execution.


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Gregory's Three Favorite Buildings:




Kimball Art Museum, Dallas, Texas
Architect: Louis Kahn



ThermeVals, Switzerland
Architect: Peter Zumthor



Marchesi Antenori, Italy
Architect:



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So I had met Greg at the Lutron event in Scottsdale, Arizona last Spring. And we follow each other on Instagram and I had wanted to do an interview with him and I asked him if it was possible to do the end of the year booklist episode and he said:


"Interesting that you ask:  We are actually just underway working on our next book, which will focus on recent residential projects. It is scheduled to come out early 2026 (title is still TBD), and will be published by ORO Editions – so still a little ways off.  We are planning to do a book launch and signing event at the AIA National Conference in the Spring of 2026 (San Diego I think?)."

 

In the meantime, our most recent book Gathering can be purchased at https://oroeditions.com/product/gathering.  Gathering includes 14 chapters each covering our recent larger, public buildings of various typologies, and includes in-depth information about the design process for each of the projects.

 

ORO’s website summarizes Gathering as follows:  “Good buildings require an understanding of the principles of structure, light, space, and material, but great buildings require an understanding of people. The most successful inspire through the interactions and connections made within them. Gathering is the latest book from the award-winning architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. This collection of work exemplifies how architecture has the power to bring people together by design, allowing them to engage with one another in new ways, to generate ideas, share their passions, and build communities. The fourteen projects included in this volume range greatly in size, function, and aesthetic, from the High Meadow Dwellings at Fallingwater to the Newport Beach Civic Center in southern California to Apple Stores located around the world. Through full-color photographs as well as conceptual sketches and diagrams, each case study gives insight into Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s design process, and how the firm’s approach has helped transform clients’ institutions, workplaces, retail environments, research laboratories, and public spaces into extraordinary places for people. An introductory essay and chapter text by noted architectural writer Sam Lubell accompanies this volume”



oroeditions.com:
Gathering: by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects




Greg also lets us in on their new book so please listen to the podcast!!!!!


shop.franklloydwright.org:
Taliesin West: At Home with Frank Lloyd Wright
by Nora Burba Trulsson


Nora and Andrew at the booksigning
during Sunset & Sips at Taliesin West
GET YOUR BOOKS FROM THE AUTHORS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS DURING THE BOOKSIGNING AND GET THEM SIGNED TO YOU!!!!










Working Title by Tom Kundig,, FAIA
(Peter Miller Bookstore)
                                           



Tom Kundig has a new book coming out soon, as yet, it is untitled but it will be available through Peter Miller Books also.  
I could literally go on and on about how great Tom is, just as a real person and a real nice person as well as a great architect. He has always been there when I have had an ask for him and they have been some really big asks for someone who is a world renowned architect but still thinks about everyone in the architecture community and his office is one of the offices that looks like a great offices to work in from the gizmos and the processes that go into the projects, and from what I saw, it just looks FUN!  And his podcast is the most downloaded because he had it posted on the Olson Kundig website (along with the others) and that to me, is a great honor.
Thank you Tom!


The Architecture of Urbanity
by Vishaan Chakrabarti: Princeton Press



Architecture: A Place for Women
by Ellen Perry Berkeley and Matilda McQuaid




Building Dichotomy
by Patrick Tighe, FAIA






Fougeron Architecture: Framing Light
by Anne Fougeron and
Essays by other Women Architects



My girl crush has a new book out and I also see that there are other amazing women architects in there that I know and want to read their words about Anne's wonderful architecture and practice as a woman owned firm and I will need to purchase this ASAP!!!!




Lake Flato Houses: Respecting the Land
by Oscar Riera Ojeda







IMMERSED: Feldman Architecture, 
by Jonathan Feldman and Essays by Other Architects




FIELD Architecture: Conversations with the Land
by Jess and Stan Field and Aaron Betsky and Others






David Gebhard's
Architectural Guide to Los Angeles,
6th edition fully edited







David Gebhard's
Architectural Guide to Los Angeles,
Special Edition






Koning Eizenberg: Buildings and Projects



Tim Andreas of AWEWORKS was published in this book for projects that he worked on during his time in the office of Koning Eisenberg (Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg). He went to work for Ian Schrager and then his own firm, BANJO, then at KOHLER and is now a consultant for hospitality projects and other ventures. 



California Captured: Marvin Rand
by Emily Bills, Sam Lubell & Pierluigi Serraino

You really need to listen to the podcast to hear my story about meeting Marvin Rand and the reason why you should always go on AIA House Tours and by all means, volunteer as a young person. 
I was also able to see one of the Craig Ellwood houses that is photographed here recently and it is really an amazing project that Peter Blake has taken on to offer these tours of these houses that we would never be able to see otherwise. 





Hunt House by Craig Ellwood,
Peter Blake
Photos: Michele Grace Hottel






Craig Ellwood: Remembering the Thin Man,
the second book of a trilogy on Ellwood,
 by author Keith York


"NEW BOOK ON MODERN ICON CRAIG ELLWOOD
(San Diego, CA) JANUARY 3, 2025 – Widely acclaimed for his architecture, Craig
Ellwood has become nearly synonymous with Southern California modernism and
certainly Arts & Architecture’s Case Study House program – having designed CSH16,
CSH17 and CSH18 in short succession.
Craig Ellwood: Remembering the Thin Man, the second book of a trilogy on Ellwood, by
author Keith York serves as a unique biographical sketch of Ellwood’s early years and a
strong rebuke of posthumous claims by his employees that they were in fact the
designers of his projects."

More Craig Ellwood from a realtor and author and just a fan of MCM Architecture, Keith York who restored a Craig Ellwood House (the one that is on the cover of this book, and a Sim Bruce Richards home also I believe... I have also had the fortune to network with him at the La Mesa History Center as well as meet and get a tour of the museum that his wife Jessica is the Head of the Mingei (or one of the heads of the Mingei) and I will be interviewing Jennifer Luce, FAIA who did an addition and remodel to the museum in the next few weeks, so Look for it!

brooks scarpa: "Salty Urbanism"






 Georgia O'Keefe: Living Modern
by Wanda M. Corn


I saw this book a few years ago when I went to the Art Institute in Chicago, I told my kids about it and they bought it for me for Christmas, it is just a great book because it not only shows her art but it shows all of the other ways that she was creative, clothes that she designed and sewed by hand. I used to joke about how I was going to end up like Georgia O'Keefe, living n the middle of nowhere and painting by herself. This was even when I was married... maybe not the best foreshadowing, but the more I age the more that I think it might really happen, not that it is what we want to happen, but just what happens. 

Also a forehadowing of the upcoming year.....




studiogang



dbarchitect.com:
Nine Ways to Make Housing for People




Small Books, Small Budgets, Big Ideas:
These are all little books that I bought at the place that I visited or that my stepdad found at a thrift sale and sent me the one on Hvittrask which I had visited while I was a student in Denmark but I hadn't purchased. I believe they are all under $10, or even less now.











ANY BOOK BY FRANCIS CHING!!!!!!  Every Architect should have at least # of these books!!!!  I am realizing looking at the ones online that I don't have my copy of BUILDING CONSTRCTION ILLUSTRATED!!!!!! Any of my past college roommates' can feel free to gift me a new copy!!!  You can literally purchase these anywhere from $3 to $60 online... try not to buy from LARGE CONGLOMERATES WHO SUPPORT CERTAIN POLITICAL CAUSES AND HAVE ENOUGH MONEY and you know, all the rest.....


HAPPY READING AND HAPPY LISTENING, 
AND PEACE AND LOVE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!!!


And from last year:


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