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(More customer reviews)An amazing book of an equally amazing exhibition. The book continues where the exhibition left off, questioning what is private and what is not in each of the houses. More than that, the reader should look at each house and the "architectural letter" that it claims to write. Koolhaas' house is a Corbusian critique with a Miesian base. Xavier's house si definately Corbu, the slow house is a slug....and more. Each is an individual criticism on modern architecture and/or on the state of architecture today.
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This is the most comprehensive list of architects that we should look out for....and are the worlds' best. Also if anyone can understand each of these projects, he has understood 80% of architecture today....(but that is if he "reads" each of the houses :-) Each house is prototypical of the architect's interests and what drives him.....see the house and you will understand all his other projects.
BTW get that Menil house out of there. There is no letter he is writing.....
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How would you build a house for a cyborg? The Un-Private House examines this and other questions confronting domestic architecture as the 20th century turns into the 21st. Changes in family structure, shifting concepts of privacy and domesticity, the home as workplace, and the revolution in communications and media have created totally new relationships between exterior and interior worlds. Photographs, plans, and drawings present 26 projects by architectural firms in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Their innovations include spectacular new materials, including "smart skins" through which houses themselves transmit information, as well as structural forms. The houses presented here, and their architects, are not only reconfiguring the domestic landscape but also launching the first architectural debates of the new century.Architects include: Herzog & de Meuron, Hariri & Hariri, Joel Sanders, Farjadi, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Lupo, Daniel Rowan, Winka Dubbeldam, UN Studio/Van Berkel & Bos, Shigeru Ban, Michael Bell, Michael Maltzan, and Clorindo Testa.Essay by Terence Riley.Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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