European House Now

Contemporary Architectural Design

Susan Doubilet, Daralice Boles

240 pages, parution le 22/08/2007

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Résumé

The design of a single-family house addresses the most fundamental and intimate issue of architecture: namely, defining a human place in the world. In European House Now, Susan Doubilet and Daralice Boles showcase current trends in domestic design as represented by extraordinary projects across Europe, where contemporary architecture is thriving. This book features some of the most remarkable examples of residential architecture completed within the last fifteen years.

The twenty-nine houses in this volume share a common premise: they extend and enrich the established principles of European modernism. At the same time, they differ markedly from one another and in so doing demonstrate the diversity implicit in that style. Including examples from all the major European countries, the projects shown here represent a broad range and illustrate both international themes and specific regional characteristics. At one end of the spectrum are the pure, minimalist forms of Alberto Campo Baeza's Gaspar House in Cadiz, Spain; at the other is the complex layering of Rem Koolhaas's Villa dall'Ava in Paris. This collection presents the work of established European architects, such as Mario Botta and O.M. Ungers, and architects who have recently achieved international renown, like Herzog and de Meuron and Ben van Berkel.

Beautiful exterior and interior photographs, plans, and sections of each house are accompanied by individual essays and captions. Together with the introduction they provide a meditation on the meaning of domestic space, as privacy and individuality become both more valued and more scarce.

With 210 illustrations, 185 in colour

Contents

Möbius House
Villa Wilbrink
Kern House
Häusler House
Casa La Clota
Single-Family House
Alonso-Planas House
Villa Dall'Ava
House in Vaise
Suzuki House
Housenin Las Matas
Cube House
Ungers House III
Hous/Barn
Stone House
House Kada B.
Gaspar House
Single-Family House
The Deckhouse
House on rue Robert Blache
Standard Solar House
Bom Jesus House
House Addition
House in Abbiategrasso
Double House
Photographer's Retreat
House in Brasschaat
Cap Martinet House
House and Studio

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Thames and Hudson
Auteur(s)	Susan Doubilet, Daralice Boles
Parution	22/08/2007
Nb. de pages	240
Format	16,5 x 21
Couverture	Broché
Poids	655g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780500281758