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STRATA celebrates modernist design in multiple ways. Its vast use
of glass blurs the inside with the outside. Its deep overhanging
eaves intersecting with each other at various angles recalls the
best work of Wright. Its expansive glass calls to mind Neutra’s
work and his insistence on architectural transparency. The
house’s imaginative interiors bespeak comfort and solace needed
for days spent in the unforgiving Arizona sun. Its construction
required extensive work on the site before the first slab was
poured, a testament to the talent of the construction team.
Whenever and wherever possible, native stone and wood were used to
give the house a sense of authenticity. The sliding glass doors
located at multiple points allow the owners to have delightful
dinner parties just as the sun is setting and the dry air is
cooling – neither indoors nor outdoors, but a vivid combination
of the two.
This book contains a compilation of the work of Perkins & Will
Miami since it’s inception in 1996. Drawing from a legacy of
nearly a century of the fabled Chicago architectural Firm, the
story of the Miami Studio is one of a search for a regional and
critical modernist language unique to its time and place. Starting
as a five person office, the studio has grown to a team of 70
architects, interior designers, and landscape professionals who
have come together with a single vision of meaning and purpose. The
work ranges from one of the most visionary Corporate Headquarters
in the country, to a Hospital in Ghana; from the most important new
Public Park in Florida to the largest Women’s University in the
Middle East; from an Innovation Center in Rio de Janeiro, to an
Office Building in Wynwood.
STRIVE explores Jones Studio’s four decades of work bringing
inventive design to our built environment. The firm samples from
ancient global architecture and the pragmatics of the American
School, from the realities of today’s climate change to
nature’s healing truths, to create a unique modernism of place.
Nature is a primary partner and collaborator in Jones Studio’s
work. Firm founder Eddie Jones, brother Neal Jones and partners
Brian Farling and Jacob Benyi express the preciousness of water and
light in the Sonoran Desert and beyond. Water performs, literally
and figuratively, across Jones
These seventy-five works are the harvest of seventeen years of
exploration from our office in San Francisco. With this admired
city as backdrop, we search for ways to produce fitting
contemporary architecture in its highly conservative terrain. These
local efforts have provided opportunities to also work nationally.
The projects describe allied explorations of Outsides and Insides,
Places and Programs, Contexts and Contents. Outsides are about
building the evolving city with continuity. More than 80% of the
fabric of cities is housing, so urban grain is predominantly
composed of dwellings, and multifamily housing has become a focus
of our work where we have explored ways to be both contextual and
contemporary simultaneously. Insides are about blankness, emptiness
to provide indeterminate shelter which frees occupants to inhabit
space at their will.
Artron is the foremost printing enterprise in China. As the core
project of Artron’s printing culture industry, the Artron art
website is actively setting up to create archives for artists.
Moreover, since the site is at the periphery of the city, the art
center will need to be conceived with a one-stop multi-service
printing facility and cultural center. The site of Shenzhen’s
Artron Art Center is located on the city edge, surrounded by three
highways. In order to keep away from the noisy and chaotic
environment, the building is idealized to be a landmark to define
this area. Since the main view of this building will come from the
three adjacent highways, the building shape should be continuous
and integrated with the large-scale urban infrastructure to form a
dialogue between the two. Taking into account the volume as a
whole, the architects must think about how to digest this huge
volume. On the one hand, on the premise of integrity and
continuity, the gaps between the different parts of the volumes
were created to bring people the comfortable visual impression when
walking in this territory.
The white worlds Kim Utzon has created in Denmark and southern
Sweden over the last few decades are stage sets for the ordered
appearance of rational and reasonable human beings at work, at
home, or at play. Clear in their composition, sequence, and scale,
sensuous in their responseto light, and conducive to rest and
reason more than anything else, theare a refinement of the
Scandinavian Modern tradition in which he works. Combining sparse
and light-filled rooms surrounded or defined by open grids with
expressive roofs or objects, Utzon's work is able to make sense out
of complex programs and create relaxed and continuous spaces.
Pavilion Living looks at the architecture of three recently
completed pavilions by Peter Zimmerman Architects on the gardens of
a large private house on Philadelphia’s Main Line, and the
associated characteristics that accompany these beautifully
conceived and carefully built structures. Located on a portion of
what was once the extensive property of the Ardrossan Estate, an
early 20th-century Georgian Revival mansion by Horace Trumbauer,
the new pavilions accompany one of the next generation of houses
that can now be seen on the rolling hills of the historic manor.
Pavilion Living is a story that encompasses architecture,
patronage, and the art of benessere (well-being) with the aim of
serving designers and homeowners seeking similar solutions to
meaningful outdoor living.
Architectural photography is where Se found his niche and in Seeing
Borobudur he turns his expert eye on the world’s largest Buddhist
monument in Central Java, Indonesia. Dating back to the 9th
century, the UNESCO World Heritage site features thousands of
stunning relief panels and hundreds of statues set within
incredible temple architecture. This book offers a unique
perspective on these treasures, taking readers on an in-depth
exploration of the temple and the different religious stories,
myths and depictions of everyday life found in the panels, which
are generally considered to be some of the most exquisite of the
ancient Buddhist world.
From a ranch in the U.S. and a Finnish farmstead to a Spanish
hacienda and Australian outback home, Stables is a celebration of
horses and their extraordinary lodgings. International in scope,
ranging from traditional to contemporary in flavour, these stables
built of wood, metal, and stone are exemplars of the finest taste
in design. The allure of housing horses is a story of architecture,
design, landscape, and a unique way of living in magnificent places
and spaces that are made exclusively for horses and for those who
love them. The book also explores indoor and outdoor arenas,
paddocks, and gardens, providing a humane face to the otherwise
functional buildings. Social spaces for the horses, riders, and
visitors also play an important role in filling out the projects,
making stables not just places for sport but also for entertainment
and leisure. There is a beauty here that reflects the majesty of
these animals, the distinctive landscapes in which they are set,
and the creative visions of the owners, architects, and designers
who have all brought them into being. Beautifully photographed, the
book is sure to interest horse aficionados as well as all those
interested in engaging, clean, human-scaled design.
This instalment of the Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Masterpiece
Series focuses on Hive Architects' Shibusa Residence on the Big
Sarasota Pass in Siesta Key, Florida. In response to the client's
brief; for their future home to reflect their simple, uncomplicated
lifestyle, the long, narrow lot and zoning requirements, the studio
decided to base their project around the Japanese concept of
Shibusa: economy of form, line and effort resulting in a refined,
timeless tranquility. Featuring critical texts by renowned
architectural writers, detailed plans and layouts and comprehensive
photographic documentation, this monograph shows how the L-shaped
structure made up of a pair of rectilinear pavilions seems to float
over the tropical landscape, offering excellent functionality for
the public and private programs, which include a main and guest
pavilion, tropical garden and lap pool, and, crucially, an
uninterrupted stream of views of the Big Sarasota Pass and/or Bayou
Louise throughout the property.
This book presents a privileged insight into the design and
construction of the award-winning Thomas P. Murphy Design Studio
Building through a series of interviews with the main professionals
responsible for its conception, design and construction: the lead
architects Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Raymond Fort-Brescia and Thomas
Westberg; the builders Thomas C. Murphy, Erin Murphy, Nick Duke and
Jason Anderson; the curtain wall manufacturers Jose Daes and Carmen
L. Guerrero, and the University of Miami Project Manager, Gary
Tarbe. It also offers sumptuous, detailed photography to provide a
thorough understanding of a building that is not just a brilliant
work of architecture in its own right but that also provides an
inspiring, tailor-made environment in which to educate the
architects of the future.
designwajskol an extensive range of projects created by the firm of
the Italian-born designer Jonathan Wajskol over the last
twenty-five years. The result is a visually driven experience that
emphasizes a consistent design approach across all categories of
design. The work ranges from editorial design to identities,
way-finding, product design, interactive design and info graphics.
The book highlights 50 projects and spans three continents: North
America, Europe, and Asia. A collection of essays by notable design
historians, educators and theorists, among them design-legend
Massimo Vignelli, situates the work of designwajskol within the
modernist tradition.
The work of Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle - presented here in an
eye -opening survey- is marvelous for its imaginative seamlessness,
and the way in which the artist's truth always shines through the
circumstances of its articulation. Here is architecture of
inseparable form and thought. The thirteen projects in this book
are filled with the fervor and energy of an architect who also
teaches young architects. Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle are part
of a small group of architects who understand the importance of the
relationship between teaching and practice, its place at that
intricate and indefinable nexus of architecture and its theory in
which architecture schools are hothouses for the incubation of
ideas in architecture and design.
"I think bamboo is the right material for creating a new
architectural language unique to Vietnam." Vo Trong Nghia. With the
climate crisis raging and awareness of humanity's detrimental
impact on the environment now patently apparent, the need for
architects to come up with sustainable new solutions has never been
more pressing. A key part of any green approach to architecture is
the use of local natural materials with a low environmental impact.
Bamboo, which has been widely used in Asian architecture for
centuries as scaffolding and for bridges, pavilions, houses and
other structures, is an ideal material in this context:
lightweight, strong and readily available. In an effort to meet the
challenges of the 21st century, VTN Architects has developed new
ways of working with two species of bamboo in particular: the
flexible "Tam Vong" (Thyrsostachys oliveri Gamble) and sturdier
"Luong" (Dendrocalamus barbatus), creating a manufacturing workflow
that allows for the production of standardized modules, a knitting
technique that enables the material to span large distances and
environmentally friendly traditional treatments such as mud-soaking
and smoking. In Bamboo Architecture we see how these methods have
been applied in award-winning, groundbreaking projects such as the
Wind and Water Cafe, Diamond Island Community Center, and the
majestic Vedana Restaurant, alongside an illuminating introduction
by Masaaki Iwamoto and an interview with the studio principal Vo
Trong Nghia who offers an inspiring vision for the future of
natural, green architecture.
This book presents the work of the Spanish architect Julio Salcedo
in a series of built and speculative projects. Salcedo's houses,
early achievements that stunned both academic and professional
circles with their fresh originality and precocious sophistication,
are presented along with unpublished competition proposals for
large-scale buildings. The projects' varying locales, scales and
ambitions all demonstrate a commitment to architecture as a
conceptual medium with the capacity to tackle complex ideas as well
as a material practice of transformative, worldly practicality.
Each is a built essay that works through architectural problems of
form, construction and material to achieve thought-provoking
resolutions of a difficult yet satisfying beauty. The book
complements a thorough graphic documentation of selected projects
with Salcedo's own writings and critical essays by Luis Rojo and
Ivan Rupnik. They situate the projects in Salcedo's multi-faceted
conceptual and professional world and place them in the context of
the constellation of ideas that currently shape and propel the
field. "...Julio Salcedo's ongoing interest in landscape and urban
design has informed his architectural work, producing a rich,
invested and responsible practice. In all, I believe his work
illustrates his ambition to inform even modest architectural
projects with broader issues present in contemporary practice,
something that I believe speaks highly for his intense and profound
interest in design." Rafael Moneo
A specific region's environmental needs often leads to a regional
vernacular architecture that embodies a common style. Yet, Hutker
Architects, Inc., has designed over two hundred homes in coastal
New England that avoid a single style. The twenty-five diverse
residential projects in this book illustrate a process not a
preordained style. The common thread through the Hutker projects is
use of the life equity principle: a home should generate social and
emotional equity over time. The conversation between the architect
and each client unveils how to design and build this home once well
to ensure positive and enduring social and emotional outcomes. A
home with life equity provides for the owner's long term needs,
both physical and psychological, uses materials best suited to the
spaces needed, and accommodates ever-changing family arrangements.
The Hutker homes fit clients so well, that they are rarely sold
outside the families that build them. Whether small or large,
owners treat these homes as heirlooms to be preserved and handed
down to the next generation.
“JONES STUDIO HOUSES Sensual Modernism” is a self-imposed
limited look at the 40-year-plus career of Eddie Jones. Almost
unheard of outside the southwest United States, Jones has quietly
accumulated a body of work ranging beyond residential design to
include major federal projects impacting the edges of America... to
be featured in a soon to be published monograph! Supported by Aaron
Betsky’s insightful forward, plus an enlightening interview with
Vladimir Belogolovsky, and comments from many of his famous
colleagues, Jones summarizes his lifelong dance with architecture
through the personal stories embedded in each house. Refusing to
repeat himself, the work tests the reality of gravity on a diverse
spectrum of interpretive vernacular responses to climate, landscape
and function. Although designed by the same hand, the forms vary as
much as the choice of materials. Rammed earth, concrete, wood and
metal are explored together and separately yet remain subordinate
to Jones’ fascination with glass. Utilizing photographs,
hand-drawings and first-person accounts, the motivations and joy of
being an architect are expressed by an exceptional whole informed
by many ordinary parts.
Immersed - The California Houses of Feldman Architecture is an
indepth look at 20 years of the firm's defining residential work
spanning three areas: Urban, Suburban, and Rural. Feldman
Architecture, a vibrant San Francisco-based studio, aims to create
authentic, sitesensitive, sustainable spaces through a deeply
collaborative process. This book, which includes commentary from
Aaron Betsky and Daniel P. Gregory, as well as an interview with
Vladimir Belogolovsky, situates Feldman Architecture's work within
the northern California design canon and illustrates how the firm's
voice subtly translates across diverse geographies and contexts.
Jonathan Feldman, in closing, reflects upon the values and
aspirations that unify the firm's work and inform its vision for
the future.
"Vietnamese cities have lost their tropical beauty. They have
turned into concrete jungles just like Bangkok or Jakarta." Vo
Trong Nghia In a context of rapid urbanization and environmental
crisis, Vietnam, like many other countries across the world,
requires innovative new architectural solutions to improve the
lives of its urban residents. Green Architecture showcases the
multi-faceted responses to these challenges conceived by the award
winning studio VTN Architects, led by Vo Trong Nghia, in which the
emphasis is placed on bringing greenery back to cities in a
holistic and sustainable manner. Through detailed illustrated
breakdowns of a series of building projects such as The Babylon
Hotel, House for Trees and Nanoco Headquarters, as well as several
schools, educational institutions and apartment buildings, and
enlightening texts including an interview with the architect, this
book explores how Vo Trong Nghia and his team draw on their
experience and philosophy to help restore the connection between
architecture and nature. "Green architecture means being friendly
with the environment, not just planting trees," Nghia says, and in
these pages we see those sentiments reflected in the flow and
design of his buildings, which transcend functionality to foster a
sense of community in a way that is drawing admiration and setting
an example across Southeast Asia and much further afield.
Between 1915 and 1917 the Russian composer, Sergei Prokofiev wrote
a series of twenty piano pieces. While playing them for a gathering
of friends, the poet Konstantin Balmont wrote a sonnet which
entitled Mimolyotnosti which Kira Nikolayevna would translate as
Visions fugitives. Inspired by these dazzling miniatures, I have
assembled a jewel box containing twenty individual felt-tip
drawings on watercolor paper capturing fugitive visions of Taos and
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Between 1915 and 1917 the Russian composer, Sergei Prokofiev wrote
a series oftwenty piano pieces. While playing them for a gathering
of friends, the poet Konstantin Balmont wrote a sonnet which
entitled Mimolyotnosti which Kira Nikolayevna would translate as
Visions fugitives. Inspired by these dazzling miniatures, I have
assembled a jewel box containing twenty individual felt-tip
drawings on watercolor paper capturing fugitive visions of Italy. I
have always been eager to capture the faded beauty of cities and
buildings. This obsession would inevitably draw me to Venice and
Sicily. Wandering amidst the shadows of the Venetian light I have
tried to portray the beauty of this luminous city. No part of Italy
has as many layers of history or been inhabited by so many
different peoples as Sicily. From the Greeks who colonized Siracusa
and Selinunte, to the Romans in Agrigento, to the Normans in
Palermo.
Lake Flato Architects, based in San Antonio and Austin, believe
first and foremost that architecture should be rooted in its
particular place, responding in a meaningful way to the natural or
built environment. Using local materials and partnering with the
best local craftsmen, Lake Flato seek to create buildings that are
tactile and modern, environmentally responsible and authentic,
artful and crafted. Now more than thirty years since its founding,
the firm has grown along with the range and complexity of its
projects, yet it still considers the desire to build in partnership
with the land to be an approach that remains valid and increasingly
resonant. Lake Flato s first projects were houses, and these
projects excite the firm still. By exploring the intimate
relationship between family, place, and building, Lake Flato create
unique living environments that possess a compelling authenticity
and beauty.
Between 1915 and 1917 the Russian composer, Sergei Prokofiev wrote
a series of twenty piano pieces. While playing them for a
gatheringof friends, the poet Konstantin Balmont wrote a sonnet
which entitled Mimolyotnosti which Kira Nikolayevna would translate
as Visions fugitives. Inspired by these dazzling miniatures, I have
assembled a jewel box containing twenty individual felt-tip
drawings on watercolor paper capturing fugitive visions of China.
For a country that has of late been focused on the future, I have
been fascinated by the search for a true contemporary regional
language in traditional Chinese architecture and painting. The
intricate and careful composition in relation to landscape and
light has been a continual revelation, as evidenced by the Summer
Palace on the outskirts of Beijing and vanishing water towns such
as Zhujiajiao, known as the "Venice of Shanghai."
We wanted the house to lie amid the woods | Landscape, esthetics,
and common sense are the three axes that direct the work of
Argentine architect Luciano Kruk. This book illustrates in great
detail one of his most representative works: his own summer house.
And it is precisely because it tackles a self-imposed need that his
deepest insights about architecture are condensed in this house. |
L4 HOUSE is one of Kruk's most mature works, one in which he
managed to stretch his esthetic and spatial search to the extreme.
The author's philosophy and architectural values emerge through a
thorough study of this house. "You learn watching", Luciano
sometimes says. | In this project as in all of his other buildings,
Kruk seeks to create essential spaces where the esthetic pleasures
can be enjoyed. His structures aim to provide an harmonious
integration with the landscape, since he cosiders houses to be
shelters.
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