Striking new solutions to familiar problems of form, function, materials, and space constraints are presented in this book's examination of key contemporary buildings that radically reconfigure the usual architectural parameters. The book begins with a historical review of experimental houses over the last eleven decades, covering the work of Adolf Loos, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and others. Key social, political, and economic forces shaping the development of twentieth-century houses are outlined. Contemporary examples are discussed by type: mobile, prefabricated, ecological, cluster, infill, adaptive conversions, and others.
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ea.vol: Watson-Guptill. illus. index. pap. $55.ARCHITECTURE These two new books on cutting-edge design offer sumptuous photographic layouts and generous helpings of plans and drawings but speak to very different audiences. Trulove and Kim showcase 30 projects by the hottest names in contemporary design. Like The New American Cottage, another Trulove-Kim collaboration, this glossy tome offers an irresistible peek into private showplaces designed by virtuoso architects for wealthy, trend-setting clients. Readers of Interior Design and Architectural Record will recognize Olson Sundberg, Wendell Burnette, and other top firms. In this third installment of The New American House, the editors emphasize the architects' heightened interest in environmental sustainability. In contrast, Pople devotes only one chapter to the detached house as upscale design statement. Mobile, prefab, multiple-dwelling, and urban infill housing are among his chief concerns. Forty-one projects from 16 countries illustrate a spirit of authentic innovation in response to current ecological, societal, and technological conditions. The architects' names appear far more often in progressive art and architecture journals than in fashionable design magazines. A senior lecturer at London's South Bank School of Architecture, Pople limits his readership by employing the rarefied language of post-structuralist critique, in which houses become texts "for reading the myths and realities which drive different cultural environments." For large public and academic libraries that hate to deny patrons another gorgeous but soon-to-be-dated picture book, The New American House 3 is not a bad choice; Experimental Houses is highly recommended for academic and architecture collections.DDavid Solt sz, Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, OH
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Nicolas Pople, a Senior Lecturer at South Bank University in London, England, is a practicing architect specializing in residential architecture.
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Great photos but ponderous writing,
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Great photos but ponderous writing. Page 83 excerpt, "The architects clearly enjoyed the possibilities of this experimental architectural archeology whereby a fundamentalist concept of authenticity is replaced by an inclusive and imaginative view of historical processes."
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More scholarly than most,
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Here are the most modern and unconventional examples in such categories as prefab, ecologically sustainable (beware, some of the examples are not pretty), or apartment housing, described by a very well-read and articulate author. A few truly are experimental, for example an engineering exercise in solar heating, or the Swedish IKEA houses, but many are just impractical novelties done for fashion's sake.
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