Adam Kalkin builds homes that mix performance, conceptual art, kinetic construction, and play. Here is the first monograph dedicated to the work of this controversial architectural designer and artist. Filled with Kalkin’s drawings, as well as color photos, it presents more than 30 of his buildings, projects, and installations, including The Bunny Lane House. Includes Kalkin’s witty “100 Comments Regarding Architecture and Hygiene.”
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Adam Kalkin is an architect and artist based in New Jersey. His work has been exhibited in New York, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Utrecht. Among his built projects are the Collector's House at the Shelburne Museum, Vermont, Home for A Hollywood Producer in Los Angeles, Martha's Vineyard House, and the Farm House, New Jersey.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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You cannot imagine how much you want this book...,
This review is from: Architecture and Hygiene (Paperback)
...because you cannot imagine what is in it; I find it remarkable that anyone could. I bought this book mainly based on the cover picture, because I like looking at innovative design. I did not expect the combination of (1) delightful, radically imaginative, yet practical architecture / interior design with (2) insightfully sardonic Monty Pythonesque, Warren Zevonish humor. The blend, throughout, is liberating. There are many excellent photos as well as professional and kid-like drawings. You will feel admiration. You will laugh. You will want a house made of shipping containers. You will want to call the number that shoots the gun that misses the ...(buy book to find out what). The book includes plans and photos of the author's art exhibits. It will make you want to sit down with pencil and paper to design! Nothing could have prepared me to appreciate this book except all the crap I've been exposed to in the last 40 years that is supposed to be penetrating, funny, and original in art and building. It is what you really want on your coffee or bedside table. You'll feel badly if your dogs rip it up. It is not an imitation. It will damage that dead stuff that hangs out in your CNS.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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strange and wonderful,
By dave wallace (verona, nj United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Architecture and Hygiene (Paperback)
This is a strange and wonderful book. I have never really seen one like it before. It violently yokes together images of Kalkin's buildings, performances, sculpture, technology, drawings and writing into an unexpectedly coherent psychobiography.This book would be of interest to architects, artists, writers and people literate in the arts.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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The Book of the Year,
By meowmeow (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Architecture and Hygiene (Paperback)
This book is a big surprise for you!!!You have not seen the book of architecture anything like this!!! The book evolves a new field of architectural design thinking which denies the mainstream of conceptual architecture of nowadays and will let you reconsider the humanism in the design process. Even anyone who accepts Rem Koolhaas as such a leading architect will be moved by Kalkinfs powerful ideology.
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