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Improvisations On The Land (Hardcover)
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Improvisations On The Land (Hardcover)
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The first monograph of the California firm whose regional
sensibility and early attention to sustainable design anticipated
the prevalent trends in residential architecture today. A generous
look at the San Francisco Bay Area architects' pioneering approach
to sustainable houses, ranging from the vineyard regions of
California to Telluride, Colorado; the rugged ranch lands of
Montana and the picturesque hamlets of the Hudson Valley and
Martha's Vineyard. Since its formation in 1981, Fernau + Hartman
has become renowned for its imaginative expansion of the
possibilities of site- and region-specific architecture. Leaders in
these concepts, as well as in sustainable design long before its
currency today, Fernau + Hartman's houses maximize the connection
between the natural and built environments, intensify the
experience of place, and invite an open, playful, and inventive
approach to life. A Newport Beach weekend house has flexible
sleeping quarters and almost everything else (spaces for cooking,
eating, showering, and bathing) is outdoors; a house made of
alternating indoor and outdoor rooms climbs up a Sonoma County
hillside; and an island house inspired by the fishing village of
Menemsha is composed as three independent gabled "sheds" docked at
a central screened porch featuring a fireplace and dining table.
With essays by Beth Dunlop, Laura Hartman, Thomas Fisher, and
Daniel P. Gregory, Improvisations on the Land creates a
multifaceted portrait of the firm's history, philosophy, and
practice - revealing as much about their process as the finished
houses themselves. Models, axonometric drawings, floor and site
plans, elevations, and photographs of vernacular structures - from
a collapsed barn in Montana, to Colorado mining compounds and a
louvered colonnade in the Sacramento River Delta - contribute to a
full appreciation of Fernau + Hartman's work, how its sense of
spontaneity and joy provides the antidote to so much of the
self-conscious architecture that surrounds us, and results in
houses that push the possibilities of residential design today.
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