Koechlin House / Daisuke Hirabayashi ; texts, Tibor Bielicky, Ellena Ehrl, and Nicolas Jérôme Hünerwadel.

Main entry:

Hirabayashi, Daisuke, photographer.

Title & Author:

Koechlin House / Daisuke Hirabayashi ; texts, Tibor Bielicky, Ellena Ehrl, and Nicolas Jérôme Hünerwadel.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[London] : MACK, [2023]
©2023

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
Chiefly illustrated.

Summary:

This book by photographer and architect Daisuke Hirabayashi is a meditation on the often overlooked lives of buildings after the architect has left. Through a sequence of intimate, immersive images, Hirabayashi explores Koechlin House, an early private home designed by now-celebrated architects Herzog et de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland. His images picture the house as a site of everyday life, with all its small joys, surprises, awkward infelicities, rituals, and revelations. The original clients left long ago, and this book quietly studies the current owner's unplanned, harmonious occupation. The Koechlin House was designed 'inside out', prioritising the experience of the interior home over its outward-facing appearance. In this sense, Hirabayashi works in the spirit of the building, centring the embodied experience within and disregarding the omniscient and dehumanised view prevalent in so many accounts of architecture. Alongside a text by architects and writers Ellena Ehrl and Tibor Bielicky, and an afterword by Nicolas Jérôme Hünerwadel, these images encourage us to rethink the perspectives and details we deem 'architectural' and leave us newly aware of the long and many-storied lives of buildings.

ISBN:

1915743176
9781915743176

Subject:

Hirabayashi, Daisuke.
Architectural photography Switzerland Basel.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie d'architecture Suisse Bâle.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Architectural photography
Buildings
Basel (Switzerland) Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works.
Switzerland Basel

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photobooks
Illustrated works
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Bielicky, Tibor, writer of added commentary.
Ehrl, Ellena, writer of added commentary.
Hünerwadel, Nicolas Jérôme, 1965- writer of added commentary.
Hirabayashi, Daisuke.

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Copy: 1
Status: On Order

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