Outside Architecture shows how architects are transforming outdoor spaces into places of habitation with the design of courtyards, pool houses, terraces, porches, and roof gardens, in response to peoples' desire to spend more leisure time outdoors. Lavish color illustrations, architects' drawings and illuminating text take the reader on a visual tour of these beautiful spaces. Depicted within these pages are many examples created by architects for themselves: William Turnbull and Mary Griffin's own home in the Napa Valley where the lawn serves as a large living room; the terraces, pool pavilion and hammock room designed by Buzz Yudell for his home in southern California; Walter Chatham's New York City roof garden created with potted plants and reflecting pool to provide a play-ground for the family's children and a pleasant retreat for summer dining within a major metropolis; a 127-foot bridge that rises to fourteen feet off the forest floor and runs through a house on the Olympic Peninsula designed by James Cutler; a swimming pool in Florida designed by Hugh Newell Jacobsen that extends from the living room to a pool house, and many, many, more. Just as Inside Architecture revealed the renaissance of architects designing interiors, Outside Architecture illustrates the infinite variety of contemporary outdoor rooms being designed by top architects today.
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Susan Zevon is a passionate devotee of architecture and a connoisseur of interior design. She has served as the architecture editor of House Beautiful for more than a decade, has held editorial positions at Self and House and Garden magazines, and has been a contributor to the home design sections of several prominent newspapers Ms. Zevon is also the author of Inside Architecture.
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STRIKING!,
By Nina Immers "Nina4medical-legal@msn.com" (Genoa, Nevada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Outside Architecture: Outdoor Rooms Designed by Architects (Hardcover)
Photographic journal that will definitely spur some new ideas. Most are more modern, but reminiscent of the Frank Lloyd Wright style of architecture with very strong lines. Multiple settings and unique media usage. Every structural artist who plans an endeavor in the garden should have this!
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Great reference,
This review is from: Outside Architecture: Outdoor Rooms Designed by Architects (International Road Poster Maps) (Paperback)
I am an architecture student and I have consistently referenced this book for my thesis project. There are some excellent examples of interior to exterior space transitions, use of materials, and tectonics.A great introduction to architects who integrate a connection to nature within their designs. The format of the book is very useful as well-for each project there is text providing a (relevant!) description of the architect and his intentions, and often a plan to show the building layout, accompanied by great photos. I particularly love the direct quotes from the architects about their views on design and nature. Beautiful projects, I highly recommend!
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William Turnbull has left a legacy of buildings, particularly in northern California where he lived and practiced for most of his career, that are so appropriate to their landscape, they seem an extension of the surrounding terrain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
outside architecture, outdoor rooms, screen porch Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Campo Baeza, Batter Kay, Floor Plan, Southern California, Site Plan Right, Charles Moore, New York City, United States, William Turnbull, Dominican Republic, Pacific Ocean New!
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William Turnbull has left a legacy of buildings, particularly in northern California where he lived and practiced for most of his career, that are so appropriate to their landscape, they seem an extension of the surrounding terrain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
outside architecture, outdoor rooms, screen porch Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Campo Baeza, Batter Kay, Floor Plan, Southern California, Site Plan Right, Charles Moore, New York City, United States, William Turnbull, Dominican Republic, Pacific Ocean New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- St. Helena by Christopher Knight on page 1
- James Cutler (Contemporary World Architects) by James Wines on page 31
- San Antonio: Story of an Enchanted City by Frank W. Jennings in Back Matter
- The Sea Ranch by Donlyn Lyndon on page 1
- The Beach House (The Beach House Series, Book 1) by Sally John in Back Matter
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