EDITOR: BENJAMIN WILKE

'Source Books in Architecture No. 15: Johnston Marklee' includes conversations with the architects and documentation of a range of built and unbuilt works. As the Baumer Visiting Professors at The Ohio State University, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee engage with students at the school in conversations that range from developing a critical practice to idea formation with respect to projects to the pragmatics of working in the field or architecture today. Documentation of work includes drawings, diagrams, photos, and models.

'Source Books in Architecture' is a product of the Herbert Baumer seminars, a series of interactions between students and seminal practitioners at the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University. Following a significant amount of research, students lead discussions that encourage the architects to reveal their architectural motivations and techniques.

Across this span of work, from its inception through its current undertakings, the extensive range of Struth’s photography exhibits two competing pulls: a simultaneous deep commitment to its subject matter and repeated shifts in topic and approach. The interchange of these tendencies suggests a number of questions: What forms of relationsexist between individual photographs or series of photographs? What does the multiplicity and evolution of series disclose about the work? And how does the incremental accrual of images construct meaningful associations on the one hand, while directing the production of future images on the other? 

 “Includes in-depth conversations with Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee about their work, the development and origins of Johnston Marklee, and how creative practices adapt to the stresses of the discipline while continuing to grow new awareness” 

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