Elemental living
Subtitle: contemporary houses in nature
By: text: James Taylor-Foster
Contributors: Phaidon Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780714873176
Subjects: Domestic Architecture; Ecological houses; Pictorial works; Nature (Aesthetics); Modern Architecture
Description: "60 stunning works of contemporary architecture, all of which have a special relationship with the natural landscape Elemental Living presents 60 works of architecture from across the 20th and 21st centuries that have a special relationship with the natural world. The book includes a visually breathtaking selection of architect-created houses that have been designed to create unparalleled views of a wide variety of natural landscapes; designed to be almost indistinguishable from the natural landscape; or designed using materials and forms found in the natural landscape. Each house demonstrates a deep concern with the creation of unique living spaces that connect their inhabitants with the forests, mountains, lakes, deserts, and oceans that have attracted humanity for millennia."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Built to look at nature; title: Built within nature; title: Built with nature.; title: 1. Built to look at nature : House of the infinite / Alberto Campo Baeza; title: Glass house / Philip Johnson; title: Pika house / Selldorf Architects; title: Holman house / Durbach Block Jaggers; title: Sun Valley house / Rick Joy Architects; title: Douglas house / Richard Meier & Partners Architects; title: Paraty house / Studio MK27; title: Fogo Island studios / Saunders Architecture; title: Rainforest Retreat / Agathom Co.; title: Hadaway house / Patkau Architects; title: Midden Garden Pavilion / Metropolis; title: The water house / Li Xiaodong Atelier; title: Treehouse Solling / Baumraum; title: Villa Mecklin / Huttunen Lipasti Pakkanen Architects; title: Alpine shelter / Rieder Smart Elements and OFIS Arhitekti; title: Cliff house / MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects; title: Stamp house / Charles Wright Architects; title: Farnsworth house / Mies van der Rohe; title: Casa Ghat / Max Núñez Arquitectos; title: 2. Built within nature : Lightbox / Bohlin Cywinski Jackson; title: Villa, gallery in Karuizawa / Makoto Yamaguchi Design; title: Delta shelter / Olson Kundig; title: Ring house / TNA, Makoto Takei & Chie Nabeshima; title: Glenburn house / Sean Godsell Architects; title: MIMA light / MIMA; title: Croft house / James Stockwell Architect; title: Montauk house / John Pawson; title: Hayes residence / Travis Price Architects; title: Casa Candelaria / Cherem Arquitectos; title: Villa Vals / SeARCH and CMA ; Rural Icelandic cottages / PK Arkitektar; title: Square house / TNA, Makoto Takei & Chie Nabeshima; title: House on a stream / Architecture BRIO; title: Edgeland house / Bercy Chen Studio; title: Nasu tepee / Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP; title: Malator house / Future Systems; title: Mimetic house / Dominic Stevens Architects; title: Pachacamac Hill house / Longhi Architects; title: Passage house / TNA, Makoto Takei & Chie Nabeshima; title: 3. Built with nature : House before house / Sou Fujimoto Architects; title: Casa Malaparte / Adalberto Libera and Curzio Malaparte; title: Earth house / Jolson; title: Father's house in Jade Mountain / MADA s.p.a.m.; title: Dragspel house / Natrufied Architecture; title: Fallngwater / Frank Lloyd Wright; title: House in the outskirts of Brussels; title: Aloni / Deca Architecture; title: Casa Canoas / Oscar Niemeyer; title: M2 Hill house / BIG; title: Notona / Not Vital; title: The Pierre / Olson Kundig; title: Bjellandsbu hunting lodge / Snøhetta; title: Moledo house / Eduardo Souto de Moura; title: Pound Ridge house / Kieran Timberlake; title: Tolo house / Álvaro Leite Siza Viera; title: Cabin Knapphullet / Lund Hagem Arkitekter; title: Too tall teahouse / Terunobu Fujimori; title: Casa Meztitla / EDAA; title: Riparian house / Architecture BRIO.