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High On...Light + Architecture explores the role and use of light
in and around modern buildings. This full colour book illustrates
how a greater understanding of this intangible and free material
leads to better architecture and improves our quality of life. It
explains why light is so fundamental to human perception, how its
nature and use are influenced by time and place and how it has come
to be used as a tool for abstract architectural design. Drawing on
centuries of thinking and over 30 international examples, the
author explores the different ways that light can be harnessed and
manipulated to achieve particular objectives, emotions or
experiences, as well as how the technologies and techniques for
doing so have developed over time.
Since 1987, Eileen Joy Liebman and Fernando Villavecchia have
produced a series of diverse projects from their studio in
Barcelona, Spain, with an emphasis on residential architecture and
the renovation of historic buildings in a range of rural and urban
contexts. Over the years, they have gradually developed an oeuvre
with a special "reserve" and with particular and measured attention
to spatial expression. Projects include the careful restoration and
adaptation of the 1958 Casa Coderch Mila in Cadaques (2017) and the
Casa Sant Llorenc (2014) in the mountains of Lerida. Text in
English and German.
A house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also
an artifact, a material extension of its occupants' lives. This
book takes the Japanese house in both senses, as site and as
artifact, and explores the spaces, commodities, and conceptions of
community associated with it in the modern era.
As Japan modernized, the principles that had traditionally
related house and family began to break down. Even where the
traditional class markers surrounding the house persisted, they
became vessels for new meanings, as housing was resituated in a new
nexus of relations. The house as artifact and the artifacts it
housed were affected in turn. The construction and ornament of
houses ceased to be stable indications of their occupants' social
status, the home became a means of personal expression, and the act
of dwelling was reconceived in terms of consumption. Amid the
breakdown of inherited meanings and the fluidity of modern society,
not only did the increased diversity of commodities lead to
material elaboration of dwellings, but home itself became an object
of special attention, its importance emphasized in writing, invoked
in politics, and articulated in architectural design. The aim of
this book is to show the features of this culture of the home as it
took shape in Japan.
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