Tropical Modern
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基本信息·出版社：Rizzoli
·页码：224 页
·出版日期：2003年11月
·ISBN：0847825795
·International Standard Book Number：0847825795
·条形码：9780847825790
·EAN：9780847825790
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 In many countries, modern houses have evolved from European-influenced International Style modernism to "regional modernist" variations on local materials and building techniques. This is a survey of new tropical houses that embrace open floor plans, exterior courtyards, sunny patios and cool stucco surfaces - all within a regionally inflected modern architectural vocabulary.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 作者简介 Raul A. Barreneche is a New York-based design editor and writer who has worked at
Architecture magazine as a contributing editor and is the founding editor of
House.
He is a contributing editor to
Metropolitan Home and
Travel + Leisure and also writes for
House Beautiful, One, Dwell, Interiors, and the
New York Times.
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly In this showcase of designs that reach beyond the soaring ceilings and infinity pools of modern home architecture, Barreneche offers a lively study of 21 projects in various tropical surroundings: seaside bluffs, arid yellow deserts and lush, verdant forests. Far away from the cities of its birth, modern architecture, with its attention to climate and dialogue between indoor and outdoor spaces, now thrives in the sun-scored tropics, and Barreneche contextualizes the tradition and samples current trends. Although most of the homes exhibited are in the Western Hemisphere, from Baja to Caracas to Miami, he includes notable examples of "modern tropical" style from Australia, Singapore and Sri Lanka as well. The brightly pigmented cement walls of the Studio MORSA architects' three houses in Nevis, West Indies, contrasts with the steely cool Bitter Residence by Isay Weinfield in Tijucopava, Brazil, whose whitewashed minimalist fa?ade and immense glass doors on the house's posterior afford its residents a private, breathtaking audience with an azure sea. The book's sole disappointment is its cursory review of mid-century modern architectural luminaries, like Gio Ponti, who receives a passing reference and one photograph (of his Villa Planchart in Caracas). Also lamentable (but understandable given the long-standing U.S. embargo on Cuba) is the painfully brief discussion of the residence Richard Neutra designed for Alfred de Schulthess in Havana. Still, the book's luxuriant, full-bleed color photographs beautifully capture the serene settings of these tropical oases, providing both architectural inspiration and escapism.
Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
