Oscar Riera Ojeda

Detlef Mertins

Bruce Mau

Rodolphe El-Khoury

Phyllis Lambert

While this diversity is one of the signature strengths of the practice, it is the thoughtful calibration of heterogeneous influences in their rigorous design work that has established KPMB as one of Canada's premier architectural studios.".

The Architecture of Kuwabara, Payne, McKenna, Blumberg

Infinite plane facing the infinite sea | We have built the most radical house we have ever made, an infinite planefacing the infinite sea | A house facing the Atlantic Ocean, ar the water's edge on a beach of Cadiz, like a pieceof earthly paradise, where the Romans once lived in nearby Bolonia | We built a powerful podium in Roman travertine whose upper horizontal plane becomes the protagonist of the space. Inside the podium, underneath this platform like a temenos, is the house | Above and behind the stony platform, we have erected stone walls to protect us from the strong prevailing winds | As if it were an acropolis. A temenos where the gods descend to converse with humans and toast with Sherry on yhis plane in high looking out ontothe infinite sea | The house of the infinite.

Alberto Campo Baeza

The House of the Infinite

The Images Publishing Group

Ken Tate

Brenda Ware Jones

This collection of houses illustrates a splendid diversity of stylistic approaches and range of creative possibilities. An obvious love of the traditions of architecture is evident in each one - no mater what the historical precedent or geographic location.

Selected Houses

Ken Tate Architect

Lucas Hugo Guerra

David Lake

Ted Flato

In this contribution to the ongoing debates over theorizing state power, the author draws on her fieldwork in Mexico to examine the ways in which local agrarian communities negotiate with the state and with local bureaucracies in an apparently hopeless round of mismanagement and corruption - which yet contains a self-correcting stability. While the ethnography focuses on a particular community at a time of transition, the author draws out the wider implications in ways that should be of interest not only to anthropologists concerned with Mexican ethnography, but also to students of political anthropology, more generally, and development studies.

Lake/Flato

Victor Deupi

A richly illustrated and elegant volume showcasing beautifully designed stables by contemporary architects and designers the world over. From a ranch in the U.S. and a Finnish farmstead to a Spanish hacienda and Australian outback home, Stables is a celebration of horses and their extraordinary lodgings. International in scope, ranging from traditional to contemporary in flavor, these stables--built of wood, metal, and stone--are exemplars of the finest taste in design. The allure of housing horses is a story of architecture, design, landscape, and a unique way of living in magnificent places--and spaces--that are made exclusively for horses and for those who love them. The book also explores indoor and outdoor arenas, paddocks, and gardens, providing a humane face to the otherwise functional buildings. Social spaces for the horses, riders, and visitors also play an important role in filling out the projects, making stables not just places for sport but also for entertainment and leisure. There is a beauty here that reflects the majesty of these animals, the distinctive landscapes in which they are set, and the creative visions of the owners, architects, and designers who have all brought them into being. Beautifully photographed, the book is sure to interest horse aficionados as well as all those interested in engaging, clean, human-scaled design.

High Design for Horse and Home

Stables

Hardcover in Slipcase: The work of [STRANG] is beautifully explored in this robust monograph which highlights the firm's site-specific and climate-driven designs. The ability to create stunning architectural designs while maintaining an acute awareness of the surrounding environment has come to define their work. Under the creative direction of Max Strang FAIA, the Miami-based firm continues to advance many of the timeless concepts set forth by the famed Sarasota School of Architecture. Strang's early exposure to that mid-century modernist movement resulted in a deep respect for structures that are intimately connected to their surroundings as they celebrate the Florida climate. This first monograph of Strang's work contains a collection of conceptual drawings, text and professional photography that underscores the ongoing relevance and importance of regional modernist design. It is the architectural responses to site and climate that infuse the specific designs with character and identity, resulting in a uniquely Floridian version of modernism.

The Architecture of [STRANG]

Environmental Modernism

Artron Art Center - the Mecca Where Books Are Created, Crafted, Enjoyed and Discussed

The Book Wall

If we see minimalism as a derivative of modernism in art, architecture and music, Jen Alkema is not a minimalist. If, however, minimalism is regarded as a way of thinking shared by numerous cultures throughout the ages, Jen Alkema is a minimalist pur sang. His minimalism goes beyond an economy of language and material; it is a way of perceiving the world, a personal attitude rather than an application of style or method. After receiving his degree at The Academy of Architecture (Amsterdam) and reaching the finals of the prestigious Prix de Rome competition in 1995, Jen Alkema turned his focus to the pure essence of architecture: mass, light, structure, repetition, volume, material. His designs, although austere almost to the point of being chaste, incorporate an innate luxury achieved through the exacting use of materials and attention to detail, a perfection in execution. Paradoxical as it may seem, the creation of this sensuous simplicity demands tremendous skill and discipline. His minimalism goes beyond an economy of language and material; it is a way of perceiving the world, a personal attitude rather than an application of style or method. Alkema's primary objective is not to produce a definitive work of beauty. Rather, he creates the conditions that allow beauty to surface. The design claims its own existence, developing into an undeniable reality. The architect becomes his own instrument, no longer the master. - First monograph of architect Jen Alkema, whose work is focused on stillness, clarity and craftmanship - The book displays a variety of detailed photographs, simple plans, sections, diagrams and text - The book serves foremost as an overall impression of his bespoke and ingenious detailed interior work, furniture and selected projects - Writings by art historian Brigitte van der Sande, and others - Professional architectural photography by Wim Hanenberg, Alexander van Berge, and Victor Duran

Works and Projects

Jen Alkema

Byron Hawes

Highlighting thirty-five spectacular recently completed houses overlooking sea, lake, river, and ocean, selected for beauty and variety across the globe, Houses by the Shore features homes that demonstrate the extraordinarily diverse ways that today's leading architects and interior designers build and design homes on the water and new approaches homeowners are taking to life on the shore. Frequently elegant and uncluttered, these houses serve as models of smart and often exquisite design with lots of ideas for homeowners who don't necessarily live in a waterfront home, but who wish to have something of that appeal and sensitivity in their own space. A range of projects encompassing myriad geographic and cultural inspirations show some of the world's most inviting residences, built in stone and glass, in wood and steel and concrete. The houses vary in size and style, though all within the realm of the modern, from open plan homes that include terraces and rooms that flow from indoors to out, to spaces flooded with light and views. Each house is photographed comprehensively with detailed interior and exterior pictures and plans, and placed into context through the lens of widely respected editor Oscar Riera Ojeda and descriptive texts written by design critic Byron Hawes, to give readers a privileged look at the best of shore-side residential architecture. With its beautiful modernist homes set beside the golden sands of the gulf coast of Mexico or upon the romantic islands of Greece, from Finland to South Africa to New Zealand, Houses by the Shore is a paean to rooms with a view.

At Home with the Water: River, Lake, Sea

Houses by the Shore

This fully illustrated book explores how architectural leaders are using CAD and rendering software to create ever more dynamic forms and more complex building interrelationships. It uses detailed computer models, fly-through animations, and full-sound videos--complete with interviews with architects, renders, and computer artists. The interactive CD takes users on an exquisite 3-D journey through each project.

Computer Generated Architectural Renderings

Hyper-realistic

Supported by the local government and a group of forward-thinking Colombian architects, Medellin has forged a new image of itself based in experimental architectural projects that have become genuinely effective tools in the implementation of inclusive urban-social change. Internationally published projects such as the Espana Library by Giancarlo Mazzanti, the Orquideorama by Restrepo and Plan B, and the Temple of Ashes and Crematorium by Felipe Uribe, are examined in detail and put into the new local, social context.

Lucas Mangum

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