About:

Since 1970, when he founded SITE, an environmental design firm based in New York, James Wines' firm has led the way in creating socially & environmentally responsible design work. According to Wikipedia, "Wines has been the designer of more than 150 architecture, environmental-art, interior-design, public-space and landscape-architecture projects, including ones sponsored by numerous large corporations (e.g., Swatch, MCA Universal, MTV, Nickelodeon, Williwear, Isuzu, Disney, Costa Coffee, Carrabba's Restaurants, Saporiti Italia, Brinker International, Allsteel, Ranger Italia, Reliance Energy Corporation). His municipal clients have included the cities of Hiroshima, Yokohama, Toyama, Seville, Vienna, Vancouver, Le Puy en Velay, Chattanooga, and New York City." He has taught at numerous art and design schools and is currently on the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University Department of Architecture, where he recently served as department head. Wines graduated from Syracuse University in 1956. He became a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome that year and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962.

Books:

Wines, James, ed. SITE.  Rizzoli, 1989.   NA737 .S49 S58 1989.

Wines, James. The Architecture of Ecology. Wiley, 1997.   NA 2542 .35 .A73 1997.

____________. "Civilization Center: Sketchbook for a Public Space." In The Next Jerusalem. Edited by Michael Sorkin. Monacelli, 2002.   NA9246.6 J4 N49 2002.

"Revegetation of Asbestos Mine Wastes." In ECO-TEC: architecture of the in-between. Amerigo Marras, editor. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. NA2542.35 .E34 1999

De-architecture.  Rizzoli, 1987.  N6512 .W576 1987 1992.

SITE: Identity in Density (Master Architect).  Images, 2005.  On order.
________________________________________________________________________ Books listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.

Articles: (Selected from 1997- 2006)                 

"SITE: identity in density (Master Architect Series VII), edited by Steve Womersley" in Landscape architecture,, 2006 Feb., v.96, n.2, p.100.

"Best thing going [Best Products showrooms]." McCown, James. In Metropolis, 2003 Apr., v.22, n.8, p.[98]-99.

"Finding the middle ground: landscape architects propose diversity over dominance for the renovation of the World Trade Center site."  Hammatt, Heather. In Landscape architecture, 2002 Sept., v.92, n.9, p.26,28.

"SITE's 'Ghost Parking Lot' threatened." Brake, Alan G. In Architecture, 2002 Apr., v.91, n.43, p.25.

"Site - James Wines: USA Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany." In Lotus International, 2000, n.106, p.78-80.

"A Doha nel Qatar = For a Museum of Islamic Arts [Doha, Qatar]." In Arca, 1998 July-Aug., n.128, p.10-17.

"Mirage." In Landscape architecture , 1998 May, v.88, n.5, p.[80]-89,109,111.

"Une pensée environnementale." In Architecture d'aujourd'hui , 1998 n.318, p.58-59.

"Site survey [interview]." In Architecture , 1998 May, v.87, n.5, p.[77,79,81]-82,84-85].

"Passages: the fusion of architecture and landscape in the recent work of SITE" in Architectural design , 1997 Jan.-Feb., v.67, n.1-2, p.32-37.                  _______________________________________________________________________ Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Web Sites:

SITE.   siteenvirodesign.com/intro.low.html