New Country Houses
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Published: April 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780789208514
Subjects: Domestic; Architecture, Domestic; Architecture; General; 20th century; 21st century; Architecture, Modern; Country homes
Description: "The thirty houses featured in this illustrated volume range from a Portuguese vacation home whose granite facade blends seamlessly into an ancient system of agricultural terraces to a Japanese family residence whose translucent walls glow like a paper lantern in the nighttime, but they all embody the same contemporary architectural trend: a radical shift in thinking about the residential architecture of the countryside. An increasing exodus from the stresses of urban living has brought a positive and powerful design consciousness out of the cities into new and challenging environments.

New Country Houses explores how architects today seek to reinvent the country house and develop a new rural architecture for the 21st century, rather than simply remodeling or recreating the methods and manners of the past."--Jacket.