Murphy, Richard, 1955 April 24- architect.

Ten houses / by Richard Murphy.

Edinburgh : Breakfast Mission Publishing, [2023]

63 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

"Richard Murphy is an extremely accomplished magician as well as a multi award-winning architect. He is a wizard at making the most of a small site, and then by the crafty use of unseen mirrors he creates views that greatly expand it and introduce unexpected light and perspectives. His houses range from the small but richly tailored in tight urban locations, to much larger homes on open sites such as an airfield or empty coast. The materials he employs vary from stone (rubble, smooth ashlar or rusticated), with carefully assembled steel sections that form the structure, stairs and handrails, corrugated iron or planted roofing, dressed lead flashing, etched glass blocks, mirrors, with timber and coloured and polished plaster as warm interior finishes. All the materials are used with great precision, clarity as well as ambiguity. He creates spaces that are both inside and outside, and in the manner of Sir John Soane you can feel that you are warmly held in a particular place, while at the same time being a part of something larger. Many architects claim to open up a building to the outside, it is one of the principle ideas of twentieth century modernism, but few have done it so convincingly as Richard has, where walls and windows slide apart, wheeling and opening to embrace a garden while still retaining all the domestic functions of a kitchen or a dining room. He is well known as an architect who has been influenced by the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa (about whom he has written the definitive analysis of his most important work, the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona), but Murphy's architecture is never a pastiche of Scarpa, and frequently echoes and develops other influences such as Glenn Murcutt, Frank Lloyd Wright or Richard MacCormac, for whom he worked. He has also faced up to the difficult issues of sustainability that now face all architects, and has incorporated a wide range of innovative measures in his own small but perfectly formed house in Hart Street. If you have a difficult small site, or a large and beautiful one that you want to make the most of, Richard Murphy can be depended upon to cast a spell and produce a magical solution."-- Publisher's website

9781399974233
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Murphy, Richard, 1955 April 24-
Architect-designed houses Great Britain.
Architecture, Domestic Great Britain.
Maisons conçues par des architectes Grande-Bretagne.

10 houses

Location: Library main m 319993
Call No.: 319993
Copy: 1
Status: Available