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Frequently elegant and uncluttered, these houses serve as models of
smart and often exquisite design with lots of ideas for homeowners
who don't necessarily live in a waterfront home, but who wish to
have something of that appeal and sensitivity in their own space. A
range of projects encompassing myriad geographic and cultural
inspirations show some of the world's most inviting residences,
built in stone and glass, in wood and steel and concrete. The
houses vary in size and style, though all within the realm of the
modern, from open plan homes that include terraces and rooms that
flow from indoors to out, to spaces flooded with light and views.
Each house is photographed comprehensively with detailed interior
and exterior pictures and plans, and placed into context through
the lens of widely respected editor Oscar Riera Ojeda and
descriptive texts written by design critic Byron Hawes, to give
readers a privileged look at the best of shore-side residential
architecture. With its beautiful modernist homes set beside the
golden sands of the gulf coast of Mexico or upon the romantic
islands of Greece, from Finland to South Africa to New Zealand,
Houses by the Shore is a paean to rooms with a view.
Since the sensuous Modernism pioneered by Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil,
Latin America has become one of the most exciting locations for
contemporary architecture in the world. Alejandro Aravena and Paulo
Mendes da Rocha, both recent Pritzker Prize winners, are just two
very different examples of the wide architectural range, set amid
varied climates, social conditions and environments, that has
brought international attention to a continent making a name for
itself as a centre for innovation and experimentation. From the
dramatic plateaux of the Andes to the lush tropics of the Amazon to
the world's driest desert, the Atacama, the rich range of climates,
terrains and cultural influences across Latin America offers
significant opportunities to create new residential architecture.
This overview showcases the most accomplished and rarely seen
contemporary houses, by established names - Isay Weinfeld, Mathias
Klotz and Marcio Kogan - as well as the rising talents now
receiving recognition on the world stage, including Pezo von
Ellrichshausen and Giancarlo Mazzanti. Following an introduction
that sets out the development of Latin American architecture since
Niemeyer, the book reveals how each house has gone beyond its brief
in stunning and unexpected ways, resulting in buildings that
transcend their time and place.
In Boyle Heights, gateway to East Los Angeles, sits the 1889
landmark "Hotel Mariachi," where musicians have lived and gathered
on the adjacent plaza for more than half a century. This book is a
photographic and ethnographic study of the mariachis, Mariachi
Plaza de Los Angeles, and the neighborhood. The newly restored
brick hotel embodies a triumphant struggle of preservation against
all odds, and its origins open a portal into the Mexican pueblo's
centuries-old multiethnic past.
Miguel Gandert's compelling black-and-white images document the
hotel and the vibrant mariachi community of the "Garibaldi Plaza of
Los Angeles." The history of Hotel Mariachi is personal to
Catherine Lopez Kurland, a descendant of the entrepreneur who built
it, and whose family's Californio roots will fascinate anyone
interested in early Los Angeles or Mexican American history.
Enrique Lamadrid explores mariachi music, poetry, and fiestas, and
the part Los Angeles played in their development, delving into the
origins of the music and offering a deep account of mariachi
poetics. Hotel Mariachi is a unique lens through which to view the
history and culture of Mexicano California, and provides touching
insights into the challenging lives of mariachi musicians.
The Unite in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at
a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense
problem. Freed from restrictive regulations for the first time Le
Corbusier was able to put into practice his concept of modern
social housing. A milestone of modern architecture and subject of
controversial debate, the Unite in Marseille continues to attract
numerous visitors and students of architecture. This volume is the
latest addition to Birkhauser's series of guides to Le Corbusier's
most acclaimed buildings, and includes an additional chapter on his
Unites in Reze-les-Nantes, Briey en Foret, Firminy and Berlin. The
author, a practising architect and well known le Corbusier
specialist, lives in Marseille and teaches at the Ecole
d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy.
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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