Brave new houses : adventures in southern California living / Michael Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Michael, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic--California, Southern.

Architecture, Domestic.

Southern California.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 2003.

Summary:

Here are thirty of the most exciting new houses and five audacious projects from a region that has always been a crucible for experimentation in residential design. They express the needs and desires of fearless individuals who decided to please themselves, flout conventional wisdom, and collaborate with talented architects. They respond to their varied sites -- from the canyons of Santa Barbara south to the mountains of San Diego County; to slivers of the oceanfront, precipitous slopes, leafy suburban estates, and bustling commercial streets. Modest or grand, expansive or tightly-compressed, angular or sensuously curved, they offer a cross-section of the best of contemporary design, and are linked only by their openness to a benign climate.

Here are the successors to Neutra and Schindler, Lautner and Gehry: architects who break out of the box to create houses that express their vision for clients and, sometimes, themselves. From serene white volumes to shifting geometries and bold expressions of structure; from houses that engage the landscape or beach to those that turn confined lots to advantage, these are models of creative design. They are sensitive to the environment, the craving for shelter and escape, and there's no wasted space, no striving to impress. They speak to the present, not to some fantasy of a past that never was. Soaring volumes flooded with light and open to nature offer an appealing alternative to claustrophobic historicism and stamped-out ornament. Brave New Houses should appeal to everyone who has thought of designing or owning a house that is one-of-a-kind, or has dreamed about making a fresh start in life.

Contents:

Shifting Geometries / Ston Allen Architect

Burnham House - Glendale / Belzberg Architecture 14

Weissberg House - Beverly Hills / Wallace E. Cunningham 20

Wing House - Rancho Santa Fe / Tighe Architecture 28

Collins House - West Hollywood / Godfredsen Sigal Architects 36

Weil House - Mar Vista / Morphosis 42

Blades House - Goleta 48

Serene Volumes / Gwathmey Siegel & Associates

Casabel - Bel Air / Richard Meier & Partners 56

Friesen House - Brentwood / Holger Schubert 66

Schubert-Nagasaki House - Venice / Edward R. Niles Architect 74

Luskin House - Brentwood 80

Dynamic Structures / Michael Lantzen

M-House - Gorman / Fung + Blatt Architects 88

Schmalix House - Mt. Washington / BAM Construction/Design 92

Berdis-Spees House - Hollywood / Kappe Studio 98

Kappe House - Iopanga / RoIo Architects 104

Carlson-Reges House - Los Angeles 110

Fronting the Ocean / Callas Shortridge Architects

Rochman House - Pacitic Palisades / Moore Rublc Yudell Architects & Planners 120

Yorkin House - Malibu / Kappe Architects/Planners 126

Culbert House - Malibu / Dean Nota Architect 134

Reyna House - Hermosa Beach / Neumann Mendto & Andrulaitis Architects 142

Sullivan-Cowan House - Carpinteria 148

Engaging the Landscape / Barton Myers Associates

Myers House - Montecito / Griffin Enright Architects 156

Sadowsky House - Rustic Canyon / Chun Studio 164

Chun House - Santa Monica / Syndesis 170

Lehrer House - Bel Air / Gray Matter Architecture 176

Schey House - Rustic Canyon 182

Confined Lots / Sander Architects

Sander House - Venice / Johnson Fain Partners 190

Johnson House - Hancock Park / Kanner Architects 196

Kanner House - Pacific Palisades / Lotean O'Herlihy Architects 202

Lexton-MacCarthy House - Silver Lake / Ken Mori Design & Twichell Studio 210

Kahn House - Manhattan Beach 216

Radical Visions / Wallace E. Cunningham

Brandys House - San Diego County / Michael Maltzan Architecture 224

Scoville-Turgel House - Mt. Washington / Morphosis 226

Mayne House / George Yu Architects 228

Max House - Malibu / Keleide Studio 232

SCRV-T8 project 234.

ISBN:

084782604X

0847825655

OCLC:

53155389