Living by the sea : 25 international examples / Christine Desmoulins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Desmoulins, Christine

Standardized Title:

25 maisons en bord de mer. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Seaside architecture.

Architecture, Modern--21st century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

159 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2008]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Contents:

The popularity of the seaside

It all begins with a legendary house ...

To live and build by the sea

The beautiful Americans

On the Mediterranean shores

The seaside, a vector of modernity

The houses and their pools

The house on the promontory

House with a panoramic view in the south of France / Atelier Marc Barani

Telescope house, Cape Schanck, Australia / Denton Corker Marshall

Upside-down house in Los Vilos, Chile / Cecilia Puga

Filter house in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa / Seth Stein Architects

Frame house in Canakkale, Turkey / Han Tümertekin

House on a snowy promontory, New Brunswick, Canada / Julie Snow

House on a slope in Kobe, Japan / Shuhei Endo Architect Institute

house on the terraces in Sardinia, Italy / Antonio Critterio

House on the moor in Struer, Denmark / Jan Søndergaard

Bastion house in Coliumo, Chile / Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen

The house at the water's edge

4x4 house in Kobe, Japan / Tadao Ando

Floating house in Kalmar, Sweden / Staffan Strindberg

House with a prow in Essex, New York, USA / Steven Holl

Origami house in Hatsukaichi, Japan / Katsufumi Kubota

Affordable house in Tewantin, Australia / Lacoste + Stevenson ARchitects

Village house in Corrubedo, Spain / David Chipperfield Architects

Polymer house in Dungeness, Great Britain / Simon Conder

Insular house near Stockholm, Sweden / Claesson Koivisto Rune Arkitektkontor

Beach house in Las Arenas, Peru / Javier Artadi

The house that tucked away on the site

Sheltered villa in Hovås, Sweden / Wingårdh Arkitektkontor

Chameleon house in La Escondida, Peru / Sandra Barclay and Jean-Pierre Crousse

Clositer house in Victoria, Australia / Denton Corker Marshall

Buried house in Moledo, Portugal / Eduardo Souto de Moura

Crater house in Antiparos, Greece / Deca architecture

House with an organic roof in Loredo, Spain / Nolaster arquitectos

Siting, structures, and building materials along the shore

Protecting the coast.

ISBN:

9783764386955

3764386959

OCLC:

212328038