Adobe houses
Subtitle: homes of sun and earth
By: Kathryn Masson ; photography by David Glomb ; introduction by Jarrell Clark Jackman
Contributors: Glomb, David, photographer; Jackman, Jarrell C., writer of introduction
Publisher: Rizzoli
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780847858446
Subjects: Adobe houses; Interior decoration; Pictorial works
Description: "Alluring adobe-brick houses of California here hint at the charms of a bygone age while offering, at the same time, a vision for home today. Adobe residences from the Spanish and Mexican eras were the original California houses. Architects, designers, builders, and homeowners today, as in the past, look to their simple, utilitarian features such as plain, whitewashed walls, beamed ceilings, and intimate open-air courtyards and try to emulate their forms to capture the charm of a romanticized past. From the 1770s to the present, adobe buildings such as churches, forts (presidios), mills, residences, warehouses, and stores have been a most important and informative part of California's architectural heritage. Adobe Houses presents twenty-three homes, made from adobe, showing interiors and gardens from these often quiet masterworks, ranging from Casa Boronda of 1817 in Monterey to Casa del Oso, a contemporary manifestation, built in Santa Barbara in 2000 that reveals the intriguing range of possibilities available to us when building in this traditional form today."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 239).