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''American Homes'' is the classic work of American house architecture. From the Dutch colonial, to the New England Salt Box, to the 1950s prefab, this unrivaled reference and useful guide to 103 building styles pays homage to our country’s housing heritage.
American homes: The landmark illustrated encyclopedia of domestic architecture
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''American Homes'' is the classic work of American house architecture. From the Dutch colonial, to the New England Salt Box, to the 1950s prefab, this unrivaled reference and useful guide to 103 building styles pays homage to our country’s housing heritage.
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Midcentury houses today
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This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservation and adaptive reuse as a sustainable architectural strategy. A(...)
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April 2024
Midcentury houses today
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This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservation and adaptive reuse as a sustainable architectural strategy. A representative group of 17 houses reveals an evolving legacy, now adapting to contemporary life. Each is examined in detail, with plans, timelines, and both archival and new photography, capturing the clean, minimalist look of the initial construction and re-imagining by significant architects of our time. Today preservation and renovation of older buildings has new visibility as a sustainable approach. As the National Trust for Historic Preservation has said, "The greenest building is the one that is already built."
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Decades after gaining international recognition through the work of practitioners such as Arthur Erickson, Ron Thom, and Barry Downs, the West Coast Modern style remains widely celebrated and highly influential for residential architects in British Columbia and beyond, even as its expressions evolve and adapt to contemporary contexts. What are the contours of its legacy(...)
Reside: contemporary West Coast houses
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Decades after gaining international recognition through the work of practitioners such as Arthur Erickson, Ron Thom, and Barry Downs, the West Coast Modern style remains widely celebrated and highly influential for residential architects in British Columbia and beyond, even as its expressions evolve and adapt to contemporary contexts. What are the contours of its legacy today—and has a new Cascadia regional style emerged? To explore these questions, Clinton Cuddington, co-principal of Measured Architecture, invited dozens of B.C.-based architects to share residential projects that best exemplified their design process. Their responses range from palatial mountain chalets to cabins sitting lightly in the forest to oceanfront retreats to sensitive urban renovations. Each house is presented through full-colour photos by professional photographers including Andrew Latreille and Ema Peter, and accompanied by short essays by curator and critic Michael Prokopow that draw on visits to each house and interviews with the architects to elucidate the many aesthetic and programmatic accomplishments on display. The houses are grouped by typology within Mountain, Forest, Shore, and City sections, and followed by profiles of each firm with photos of additional work.
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A-Frame: New concept
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A-Frame constructions emerged in the mid-20th century and have been forgotten for decades. In recent years we are seeing how the spirit of A-Frame style houses is gradually being revived by avant-garde architects who have adapted this approach to more modern times. It is not uncommon nowadays to find examples of modern houses with A-Frame architecture as a hallmark in(...)
A-Frame: New concept
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A-Frame constructions emerged in the mid-20th century and have been forgotten for decades. In recent years we are seeing how the spirit of A-Frame style houses is gradually being revived by avant-garde architects who have adapted this approach to more modern times. It is not uncommon nowadays to find examples of modern houses with A-Frame architecture as a hallmark in leading design magazines. This type of construction stands out for its structural simplicity, which in most cases reduces costs, and also for its great capacity for thermal and acoustic insulation, greater speed of construction, elimination of the need for columns, greater strength and structural consistency, among many other benefits. A-Frame homes have a better environmental impact due to energy savings in both construction and utility costs, not to mention a smaller carbon footprint for the environment.
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The intuitive design, sun-lit spaces, and tranquil vibe of modernist houses have an enduring appeal today. But can these homes be updated for contemporary living while maintaining the integrity of the original architecture? "The new modernist house" presents twenty-one mid-century homes respectfully restored and renewed for future generations to enjoy. Designs by some of(...)
The new modernist house: Mid-century homes renewed for contemporary living
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The intuitive design, sun-lit spaces, and tranquil vibe of modernist houses have an enduring appeal today. But can these homes be updated for contemporary living while maintaining the integrity of the original architecture? "The new modernist house" presents twenty-one mid-century homes respectfully restored and renewed for future generations to enjoy. Designs by some of the period’s heavyweights- including Anatol Kagan, Alistair Knox, and Ernest Fooks- have been sensitively updated by today’s creative innovators. Alongside stories of the passionate homeowners, architects, and collaborators who have given these homes new life, a historical overview and section on practical considerations inform those drawn to a modernist dream house. This colorful volume is both a useful resource for those embarking on their own renovation journey, and a sourcebook of inspiration for delighting in moments of nostalgia.
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''Earth, Sky and Water'' presents 15 projects designed by Mette across three chapters: ''By the Water'', ''In the Forest'' and ''In the Countryside''. First-person project texts describe Mette’s unique practice of camping on-site at the start of each design process, and detail the thinking behind each house’s main features. Inviting photography takes readers inside these(...)
Earth, sky & water: Houses in the Nordic style
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''Earth, Sky and Water'' presents 15 projects designed by Mette across three chapters: ''By the Water'', ''In the Forest'' and ''In the Countryside''. First-person project texts describe Mette’s unique practice of camping on-site at the start of each design process, and detail the thinking behind each house’s main features. Inviting photography takes readers inside these homes and draws particular attention to the choice of materials.
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Lofts are open, diaphanous spaces that are often located in old industrial buildings. Conversions of these rooms tend to expose the framing system and installations and to conserve the structure's original manufacturing aspect. The project collected in this book involve flexible dwellings that adapt to the functional needs of their users, and at the same time, permit a(...)
Minimalist lofts - lofts minimalistas
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Lofts are open, diaphanous spaces that are often located in old industrial buildings. Conversions of these rooms tend to expose the framing system and installations and to conserve the structure's original manufacturing aspect. The project collected in this book involve flexible dwellings that adapt to the functional needs of their users, and at the same time, permit a varied domestic use of their rooms.
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March 2001, Madrid
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The Hamptons, New York's fashionable summer beach resorts, are well known as weekend havens for city-dwellers who relish their idyllic setting on the Atlantic shore. Once quiet agricultural land, Eastern Long Island first became popular among artists,(...)
Weekend utopia : modern living in the Hamptons
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The Hamptons, New York's fashionable summer beach resorts, are well known as weekend havens for city-dwellers who relish their idyllic setting on the Atlantic shore. Once quiet agricultural land, Eastern Long Island first became popular among artists, architects, writers, and society patrons in the 1920s, when it served as a breeding ground for modernism. From the avant-garde influence of luminaries like Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and Willem de Kooning, to the high modernism of Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, and Richard Meier, new ideas about art, architecture, and modern living transformed the Hamptons and ultimately made it the destination of choice for those seeking respite from the battles of Wall Street and Madison Avenue. In "Weekend Utopia" Alastair Gordon traces this fascinating and complicated trajectory, both in architectural terms--looking at modest beach houses and modern mansions alike--and in the life stories of the world-famous artists and designers, whose influence is felt on "The Island" even today. Over 175 photographs and illustrations detail the architecture, interiors, and nuances of these beautiful weekend homes, and provide an intimate portrait of the people who inhabit them. This book combines architectural history with a broad social perspective and paints a comprehensive picture of an area that in many ways shaped modern American culture.
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May 2001, New York
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The modern house today
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"The Modern House Today" follows on from F.R.S. Yorke's book of 1934, The Modern House, and considers the impact of modern architects such as Kubetkin, Gropius, Mendelsohn, Chermayeff, Breuer, Hill and Goldfinger. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the modern house through both newly commissioned photography and documentary records, both of which are written(...)
The modern house today
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"The Modern House Today" follows on from F.R.S. Yorke's book of 1934, The Modern House, and considers the impact of modern architects such as Kubetkin, Gropius, Mendelsohn, Chermayeff, Breuer, Hill and Goldfinger. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the modern house through both newly commissioned photography and documentary records, both of which are written and commented upon by the architectural historian Kenneth Powell. Photography by Nick Dawe.
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October 2001, London
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This special issue of a+u includes the following residential buildings: Hvitträsk, 1903 /Saarinen, Lindgren, Gesellius Robie House, 1910 /Frank Lloyd Wright Scheu House, 1912 /Adolf Loos (...)
May 2000, Tokyo
Visions of the real : modern houses in the 20th century : volume 1, 1900-1949
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This special issue of a+u includes the following residential buildings: Hvitträsk, 1903 /Saarinen, Lindgren, Gesellius Robie House, 1910 /Frank Lloyd Wright Scheu House, 1912 /Adolf Loos Une Petite Maison, 1923 /Le Corbusier Rietveld-Schröder House, 1924 /Gerrit Thomas Rietveld How House, 1925 /Rudolph Schindler Melnikov House, 1929 /Konstantin Melnikov Tugendhat House, 1930 /Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maison de Verre, 1931 /Pierre Chareau Dammann House, 1932 /Arne Korsmo Schminke House, 1933 /Hans Scharoun Summer House, 1937 /Gunnar Asplund Gropius House, 1937 /Walter Gropius House over the Brook, 1945 /Amancio Williams Kaufmann Desert House, 1946 /Richard Neutra Maison Curutchet, 1949 /Le Corbusier
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May 2000, Tokyo