Building a house for one's parents is a time-honored way for many architects to begin their careers, to showcase experimental ideas, or simply to honor the people who raised them. From these houses we can gain clearer insights about the designers' ideas on form, space, style, and place. These houses offer rich insight into the client-architect relationship, and they give elegant architectural expression to ideas about home, family, and childhood memories. A House for My Mother features 25 houses designed over the last 50 years by various architects for their mothers, fathers, in-laws, and extended families. Included are the well-known works of recognized designers as well as early works from promising young architects. Extensive interviews with the architects and their families reveal the joys and difficulties of these very personal commissions. The houses offer innovative and affordable designs, in a variety of styles and building materials, for homes ranging from city dwellings to beach houses and mountain retreats. As the architects were generally given broad control over the design, these homes showcase the ideas that characterize their work. The architects in this collection include Natalye Appel, Peter Bohlin, Walter Chatham, Charles Gwathmey, Steven Izenour, Donna Kacmar, Robert Kahn, Mark and Jean Larson, Joanna Lombard and Denis Hector, Robert Luchetti, Suzanne Martinson, Richard Meier, Charles Menefee, Mark Simon, Laurinda Spear and Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Robert Venturi, and Paul Westlake.
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Architects tend to think of designing a house for their parents as a chance to launch a career. But the new book by Miami-based critic Beth Dunlop reveals how much more complicated the process can be - encompassing not only issues of architecture, psychology, program, and memory, but in effect calling into question everything that a house and home can be. Oculus
When renowned architects design houses for their parents or other family members, the project can be highly personal and a challenge.... Such challenges are explored by award-winning architectural critic and author Beth Dunlop in A House for My Mother: Architects Build for Their Families. Newark Star-Ledger
When renowned architects design houses for their parents or other family members, the project can be highly personal and a challenge.... Such challenges are explored by award-winning architectural critic and author Beth Dunlop in A House for My Mother: Architects Build for Their Families. Newark Star-Ledger
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Beth Dunlop is an award-winning architectural critic and author who currently lives in Miami. She served as architecture critic for the Miami Herald for thirteen years, and was awarded the Critic's Medal from the American Institute of Architects in 1993.
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Houses and Spirits,
By Elizabeth Livingston (Connecticut, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A House for My Mother: Architects Build for their Families (Paperback)
This collection profiles houses architects have built for their families. The book is interesting on an informational level (lots of ideas for those dreaming of designing their own homes) - but what is unique, is the interplay in each case between human and design elements. A rare book that succeeds on the level of story as well as information.
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THE HOUSES ARCHITECTS DESIGN FOR THEIR PARENTS ARE PLIED WITH MANY LAYERS OF MEANING, even if on the surface they seem to be simply houses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Peter Anderson, Henry Myerberg, Joanna Lombard, Long Island, New York, Jan Lesniak, Robert Venturi, Rosalie Gwathmey, Charles Gwathmey, Donna Kacmar, Mark Larson, Vanna Venturi, Bette Parlette, Laura Hampton, New Jersey, Richard Meier, Suzanne Martinson, Bay Head, Mark Hampton, Bedroom Suite, Frank Lloyd Wright, Joan Crowell, Fort Lauderdale, Puget Sound, Atlantic Ocean New!
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THE HOUSES ARCHITECTS DESIGN FOR THEIR PARENTS ARE PLIED WITH MANY LAYERS OF MEANING, even if on the surface they seem to be simply houses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Peter Anderson, Henry Myerberg, Joanna Lombard, Long Island, New York, Jan Lesniak, Robert Venturi, Rosalie Gwathmey, Charles Gwathmey, Donna Kacmar, Mark Larson, Vanna Venturi, Bette Parlette, Laura Hampton, New Jersey, Richard Meier, Suzanne Martinson, Bay Head, Mark Hampton, Bedroom Suite, Frank Lloyd Wright, Joan Crowell, Fort Lauderdale, Puget Sound, Atlantic Ocean New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi on page 25
- South Carolina: The Palmetto State (Guide to American States) by Janice Parker on page 113
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