The New Modern House

by Jones, Will

• ISBN13: 9781568985244
• ISBN10: 156898524X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-07
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Summary

Featured here are 40 residential projects, organized into five thematic chapters. Each property showcases innovative or radical design elements that push the norm of domestic architecture. The case studies include Ushida Findlay's Grafton New Hall, Rafael Vinoly's Piano House and Ahadu Abaineh's Tree House in Ethiopia. A wealth of colour photography and drawings of exteriors and interiors is also included.

Author Biography

Will Jones began life as a carpenter and is now a freelance writer specializing in design. His articles have appeared in RIBA Journal , The Financial Times , Blueprint , and Dwell . He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Introduction	p. 8
Conditions	p. 12
Barclay & Crousse: Casa Equis Canele, Peru	p. 16
Delugan Meissl: Ray 1 Vienna, Austria	p. 22
Woha Design: Hua Guan House Singapore	p. 26
Featherstone Associates: Voss Street House London, UK	p. 30
Ben Addy: Fin-Topped House East Asia/Non site-specific	p. 32
Architects Ink: Beach House Adelaide, Australia	p. 36
De Rijke Marsh Morgan: One Centaur Street London, UK	p. 38
Edge Design Institute: Suitcase House Nanguo Valley, Beijing, China	p. 42
Materials	p. 46
Sean Godsell Architects: Peninsula House Melbourne, Australia	p. 50
Hudson Architects: Belper House Belper, Derbyshire, UK	p. 56
Living Tomorrow/Un Studio: Living Tomorrow 3 Amsterdam, Netherlands	p. 58
Mark Hutker Architects & Associates: Skolos/Wedell Home Canton, Massachusetts, USA	p. 62
Masaki Endoh and Masahiro Ikeda: Natural Ellipse Tokyo, Japan	p. 64
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects: Vertical House Los Angeles, USA	p. 68
Project Orange: Sinclairs Sheffield, UK	p. 70
Gerner Gerner Plus: Sued.See Burgenland, Austria	p. 72
Environment	p. 76
Ushida Findlay: Grafton New Hall Chester, Cheshire, UK	p. 80
Robert Adam Architects: Solar House Wakeham, Sussex, UK	p. 84
Ahadu Abaineh: Growing House Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	p. 88
S333: Bloembollenhof Vijfhuisen, Netherlands	p. 90
Eldridge Smerin: Iden Croft Staplehurst, Kent, UK	p. 94
Tim Pyne: m-house Non site-specific	p. 96
Blue Sky Architecture: Murphy House Gambier Island, Canada	p. 100
Cullum & Nightingale: New Eden House Bequia, Caribbean	p. 104
Budget	p. 108
Scda Architects: Heeren Shophouse Malacca, Malaysia	p. 112
Studio Aisslinger: Loftcube Non site-specific	p. 116
Theis & Khan: Steve's Retreat London, UK	p. 120
Simon Conder Associates: Rubber House Dungeness, Kent, UK	p. 122
Onl: Elemental Housing Chile	p. 124
Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects: Six Wood Lane London, UK	p. 128
Buckley Gray: Rural Retreat Dartmoor, South Devon, UK	p. 130
Kaufmann Kaufmann: SU-SI Non site-specific	p. 132
Aesthetics	p. 134
Chetwood Associates: Butterfly House Godalming, Surrey, UK	p. 138
Rafael Vinoly Architects: Piano House The Hamptons, New York, USA	p. 144
(EEA) Erick Van Egeraat Associated Architects: Avant-Garde Moscow, Russia	p. 148
Fat: Blue House London, UK	p. 150
Beige Design: Pixel House San Francisco, USA	p. 154
Hays Associates: Thistle Star Santa Fe, USA	p. 156
Alsop Architects: CiBoGa Groningen, Netherlands	p. 160
W Architecture: DoMa Gallery Baltimore County, Maryland, USA	p. 164
Architect and Photographer Details	p. 168
Bibliography	p. 171
Index	p. 172
Acknowledgments	p. 176
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