Bookcondition: NEW. AS NEW. NUEVO COMO NUEVO At the beginning of the twentieth century, a new vision of architectural space was born. New construction methods eliminated the need for interior partitions, enabling modern architects to break free from spatial constraints and traditional limits to design houses that were unbound, dynamic and open.
The first half of this book explores the evolution of the open plan in the work of well-known American and European architects. From Frank Lloyd Wright's breaking of the suburban box to Le Corbusier's dynamic purist spaces, architects abandoned self-contained rooms and discarded traditional social and familial constraints.
Gerrit Rietveld and Mies van der Rohe made attempts to open the house, philosophically as well as physically. In the 1950s, Rudolf Schindler, Richard Neutra and Oscar Niemeyer replaced windows with glass walls; the Case Study Houses in Los Angeles offered casual, free-flowing space and a seamless integration of exterior and interior. The open house had arrived, and today, Shigeru Ban's minimalist retreat perched in the hills of Japan, or LOT/EK's industrial vernacular duplex in New York prove it is alive and well.
Twelve projects by today's leading international architects, including Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, Patkau Architects, Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray, Wes Jones, Daly Genik, Kuth Ranieri and Glenn Murcutt, are showcased in full-page colour photographs that illustrate and celebrate the enduring relevance and formal variety of the open house
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