Modern House
Author(s): John Welsh
The Twentieth Century has produced numerous innovative and memorable designs for private houses, many of which have become architectural icons worldwide. In the 1920s and 1930s the private house was the means by which architects established the early Modern Movement, and clients looked favourably on commissioning the avant-garde. Today, the house is enjoying an architectural renaissance, as private clients have returned to architects to express their wealth and status. The result is a collection of innovative projects that demonstrates some of the real concerns of world-famous architects, and displays the talents of young designers eager to establish their reputations. The thirty recent houses from around the world included in this book reveal current developments in house design by notable contemporary architects, and demonstrate continuing links with the work of the early twentieth-century masters. Each project is covered in depth and fully illustrated with photographs, plans and drawings.
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John Welsh has been buildings editor of "Building Design" and assistant editor of "Designers Journal". His publications include the "Architecture in Detail" monograph on Rick Mather's Zen restaurants.
The house as object in the landscape; the house as construction; the site-responsive house; the organic house; urban compromise. Featured projects include: Luigi Snozzi, Casa Bemasconi; Antonio Cainpo Baeza, house in Spain; Pawson Silvestrin, Neuendorf House; Richard Meier, Ackerberg House, Malibu; Antoine Predock, Zuber House; Tadao Ando, Kidosaki House; OMA, Villa, Paris; Dirk Alten, The Eagle; Stephane Beel, Bruges House; Shinichi Ogawa, house for a Cubist; Daryl Jackson, Beach House, Bermagui; Scogin Elam & Bray, Chniar House; Sergio Puente/Ada Dewes, Weekend House; Barry Marshall, Beach House; Nonda Katsalides, Beach House; Xaveer de Geyter, House in Antwerp; Mario Botta, Casa Biarida, Losone; Frank Gehry, Winton House, Mimesota; Bart Prince, Price House; Joshua Schweitzer, The Monument; Enric Miralles, House in Barcelona; Masaharu Takasaki, Zero Cosmology House; Ushida Findlay Truss, Beam House; Mecanoo, House for Houben de Graaf; Hajime Yatsuka, House in Komae; David Wild, House in Camden; Glenn Murcutt, Done House; Graham Morrison, Allies & Morrison, Blackheath House.
General Fields
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- : phaido
- : phaido
- : 1.429
- : 04 February 1999
- : 290mm X 250mm X 19mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : John Welsh
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 728
- : 240
- : 215 colour and 93 b&w illustrations, 148 line drawings
