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Design for Living

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 1989236022

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Design for Living by Anonim Pdf

""Does Your House Fit You?" In 1949, the Community Arts Council of Vancouver posed this question in their catalogue for the seminal Design for Living exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, arguably marking the birth of Canada's West Coast Modernist tradition in art and architecture. Seventy years later, many of these modernist homes have been demolished for redevelopment, and yet many more have been renovated and preserved, reminders of the spirit of invention, experimentation, and enlightenment that characterized their original design. This catalogue, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, presents eight case studies that represent a spectrum of modernist homes. Some are by well-known architects and designers, while others are by lesser-known builders, but all of which have been restored, updated, and adapted to the needs of contemporary family life, while remaining true to the modernist spirit in which they were originally created."--

West Coast Modern

Author : Zahid Sardar
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781423624394

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West Coast Modern by Zahid Sardar Pdf

Breathtaking home designs that fit perfectly into the unique landscape of the West. Architects and designers are breaking new ground on the West Coast, incorporating tested ideas with modern technologies, materials, and concepts in thrilling and sustainable designs. This collection of more than 25 inspiring residences by such renowned western architects and interior designers as Ricardo and Victor Legorreta, Tom Kundig, Jim Jennings, Steven Ehrlich, Marmol Radziner, Aidlin Darling, Paul Wiseman, Terry Hunziker, and Gary Hutton showcases large and small homes that respond to the deserts, mountains, plains, and coastlines of the West. The sculptural forms and elegant interiors are at once both urban and rural, open to the outdoors, and always contemporary, comfortable, and stylish. Zahid Sardar is a San Francisco editor and writer specializing in architecture, interiors, and design. His work has appeared in Dwell, Interiors, Interior Design, California Home & Design, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He teaches design history at the California College of the Arts and has written several books, including San Francisco Modern and New Garden Design. Matthew Millman has photographed architecture and interior design in the western United States for the past 20 years. His work has appeared in Dwell, Architectural Digest, and the New York Times, as well as the design titles Concrete Countertops, Concrete at Home, and Model Making.

Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA

Author : Sam Lubell
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714871958

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Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA by Sam Lubell Pdf

A must-have guide to one of the most fertile regions for the development of Mid-Century Modern architecture This handbook - the first ever to focus on the architectural wonders of the West Coast of the USA - provides visitors with an expertly curated list of 250 must-see destinations. Discover the most celebrated Modernist buildings, as well as hidden gems and virtually unknown examples - from the iconic Case Study houses to the glamour of Palm Springs' spectacular Modern desert structures. Much more than a travel guide, this book is a compelling record of one of the USA's most important architectural movements at a time when Mid-Century style has never been more popular. First-hand descriptions and colour photography transport readers into an era of unparalleled style, glamour, and optimism.

Selwyn Pullan

Author : Selwyn Pullan,Kiriko Watanabe
Publisher : D&M Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781553659471

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Selwyn Pullan by Selwyn Pullan,Kiriko Watanabe Pdf

The stark beauty of an iconic architectural movement is captured in this rare collection of stunning images. As an emerging photographer in the 1950s and '60s, Selwyn Pullan played an important role in popularizing the new style of West Coast modernist architecture. His photographs capturing Vancouver's rapidly changing urban landscape appeared regularly in magazines and architectural journals, and helped tout the bold, dramatic architectural ideas thriving on the West Coast. Pullan became known for his ability to contextualize the work of architects through unique composition and tonal range. He photographed projects for B.C.'s leading architects of the era, including Ron Thom, Fred Hollingsworth, C.E Pratt, Arthur Erickson and Barry Downs. Today, as Vancouver's architectural landscape changes again, his photographs are all that remain of many of these projects, now demolished or altered beyond recognition. His archive forms a crucial record of a definitive architectural movement. Selwyn Pullan is the first full-length book dedicated to his compelling photographs. An extensive retrospective with beautifully reproduced images, this book's illuminating texts also put the artist in historical and cultural context.

Canadian Modern Architecture

Author : Elsa Lam,Graham Livesey
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616898830

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Canadian Modern Architecture by Elsa Lam,Graham Livesey Pdf

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) President's Medal Award (multi-media representation of architecture). Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary architecture. Beginning with the nation's centennial and Expo 67 in Montreal, this fifty-year retrospective covers the defining of national institutions and movements: • How Canadian architects interpreted major external trends • Regional and indigenous architectural tendencies • The influence of architects in Canada's three largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver Co-published with Canadian Architect, this comprehensive reference book is extensively illustrated and includes fifteen specially commissioned essays.

Insideout

Author : Swatt-Miers Architects
Publisher : Images Publishing Dist Ac
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : 1864703997

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Insideout by Swatt-Miers Architects Pdf

In this new monograph, Swatt | Miers Architects presents their most recent, internationally acclaimed and award-winning West Coast projects as a synthesis of architecture and site.In this new monograph, Swatt | Miers Architects presents their most recent, internationally acclaimed and award-winning West Coast projects as a synthesis of architecture and site. "One can understand our work best by first understanding the land - we search for organisation and forms that naturally evolve from the site, and when we are most successful the designs seem simple, effortless, and almost inevitable. However, like a beautiful ballet, patience and almost endless practice are behind every simple move." The firm was recently nominated for the California Council AIA's 'Firm of the Year Award 2011'.IMAGES' second title with Robert Swatt. 'Livable Modern' (978 1 920744 5 2) continues to be an influential title. SELLING POINTS:- West coast architecture; a synthesis of architecture and site-beautiful houses matching the lifestyle of Southern California 400 col.

Baja to Vancouver

Author : Ralph Rugoff,CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Publisher : San Francisco : CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015058245310

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Baja to Vancouver by Ralph Rugoff,CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Pdf

Edited by Ralph Rugoff. Essays by Douglas Coupland, Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler.

Emily Carr

Author : Kiriko Watanabe,Kathryn Bridge,Robin Laurence,Michael Polay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Modernism (Art)
ISBN : 1773270915

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Emily Carr by Kiriko Watanabe,Kathryn Bridge,Robin Laurence,Michael Polay Pdf

In 1911, Emily Carr returned from a sixteen-month trip to France with a new understanding of French Modernism and a radically transformed painting style that infused her later representations of Northwest Coast First Nations communities in British Columbia. Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing?French Modernism and the West Coast showcases this dramatic evolution by presenting works Carr produced before, during, and after her artistic explorations in France.00Exhibition: Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Canada (21.09.2019-19.01.2020).

West Coast Jazz

Author : Ted Gioia
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520217292

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West Coast Jazz by Ted Gioia Pdf

Ted Gioia tells the story of jazz as it has never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Gioia provides readers with lively portraits of great musicians, intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created. 9 photos.

West Coast Residential

Author : Greg Bellerby
Publisher : Simply Read Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X030233043

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West Coast Residential by Greg Bellerby Pdf

Demonstrates how modernist traditions are being integrated into contemporary design, explains what the defining features of the West Coast mid-century vernacular were and asks whether it still exists today. Includes homes in Vancouver by B.C. Binning and Battersby Howat, Seattle by Paul Hayden Kirk and Eggleston/Farkas, Portland by John Yeon and William Tripp, Los Angeles by Maynard Lyndon and Barton Myers, and San Francisco by William Wurster and Stanley Saitowitz.

Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body

Author : Kristina Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691213491

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Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body by Kristina Wilson Pdf

The first investigation of how race and gender shaped the presentation and marketing of Modernist decor in postwar America In the world of interior design, mid-century Modernism has left an indelible mark still seen and felt today in countless open-concept floor plans and spare, geometric furnishings. Yet despite our continued fascination, we rarely consider how this iconic design sensibility was marketed to the diverse audiences of its era. Examining advice manuals, advertisements in Life and Ebony, furniture, art, and more, Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body offers a powerful new look at how codes of race, gender, and identity influenced—and were influenced by—Modern design and shaped its presentation to consumers. Taking us to the booming suburban landscape of postwar America, Kristina Wilson demonstrates that the ideals defined by popular Modernist furnishings were far from neutral or race-blind. Advertisers offered this aesthetic to White audiences as a solution for keeping dirt and outsiders at bay, an approach that reinforced middle-class White privilege. By contrast, media arenas such as Ebony magazine presented African American readers with an image of Modernism as a style of comfort, security, and social confidence. Wilson shows how etiquette and home decorating manuals served to control women by associating them with the domestic sphere, and she considers how furniture by George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames, as well as smaller-scale decorative accessories, empowered some users, even while constraining others. A striking counter-narrative to conventional histories of design, Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body unveils fresh perspectives on one of the most distinctive movements in American visual culture.

Houses Made of Wood and Light

Author : Michele Dunkerley
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292742680

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Houses Made of Wood and Light by Michele Dunkerley Pdf

American architect Hank Schubart was regarded as a genius for finding the perfect site for a house and for integrating its design into the natural setting, so that his houses appear to be as native to the forest around them as the trees and rocks. Salt Spring Island, one of the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada, offered him a place to create the kind of architecture that responded to its surroundings, and Schubart-designed homes populate the island. Built of wood and glass, suffused with light, and oriented to views, they display characteristic features: random-width cedar siding, exposed beams, rusticated stonework. Over time, Schubart’s homes on Salt Spring Island came to be considered uniquely Gulf Islands homes. This inviting book offers the first introduction to the life and architecture of West Coast modernist Henry A. Schubart, Jr. (1916–1998). While still in his teens, Schubart persuaded Frank Lloyd Wright to accept him as a Taliesin Fellow, and his year’s apprenticeship in the master’s workshop taught him principles of designing in harmony with nature that he explored throughout the rest of his life. Michele Dunkerley traces Schubart’s career from his early practice in San Francisco at the noted firm Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, to his successful firm with Howard Friedman, to his most lasting professional achievements on Salt Spring Island, where he became the de facto community architect, designing more than 230 residential, commercial, educational, and religious projects. Drawing lessons from his mentors over his decades on the island, he forged an everyday architecture with his mastery of detail and inventiveness. In doing so, he helped define how the island could grow without losing its soul. Color photographs and site plans display Schubart’s remarkable homes and other commissions.

Modern in the Making

Author : Daina Augaitis,Allan Collier,Michelle McGeough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1773271229

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Modern in the Making by Daina Augaitis,Allan Collier,Michelle McGeough Pdf

From the aesthetics of postwar reconstruction to the functional objects that complemented 1950s West Coast Modern architecture and the expressive material forms of the 1960s and 70s, Modern in the Making will acknowledge the many dimensions that defined British Columbia's cultural identity in the postwar era. It is the first volume to trace the evolution of Modern ceramics, weaving and fiber art, furniture, fashion and jewelry design produced between 1945 and 1975 in the Vancouver Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and the Okanagan.

The West Coast Modern House

Author : Greg Bellerby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1927958237

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The West Coast Modern House by Greg Bellerby Pdf

A landmark study of one of Canada' most important architectural movementsThe West Coast Modern House chronicles the development of Vancouver residential architecture from the 1940's through its continued influence on contemporary practice. The post-war era in Vancouver defined what has become popularly know as the 'West Coast Style'. Through the work of seminal figures such as BC Binning, Ned Pratt, Ron Thom, Fred Hollingsworth, Douglas Simpson, Barry Downs and Arthur Erickson, Vancouver architects won national awards and international recognition for their innovative house designs. This period is now seen as one of the most important in the cities architectural history. Focusing on the years from 1940 to the mid-1960's, The West Coast Modern House features over fifty examples of modern houses. The book is richly Illustrated by photographs taken at the time by noted architectural photographers Graham Warrington, Selwyn Pullan and John Fulker. Essays by Greg Bellerby, Jana Tyner and Chris Macdonald elaborate on the history and innovative design strategies of the early period, through to an examination of the ways modern architectural concerns are being utilized by contemporary practitioners. The West Coast Modern House enables the reader to come to a greater understanding of the significance of modern residential architecture on the west coast and the persistence and relevance of its innovative design, material and construction strategies.

Coastal Modern

Author : Tim Clarke,Jake Townsend
Publisher : Potter Style
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780307718785

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Coastal Modern by Tim Clarke,Jake Townsend Pdf

The beach house is more than just a place to live—it is a symbol of a life well lived. —from the Introduction Coastal homes capture our imagination because they hold the promise of freedom, escape, and pure relaxation. Celebrity decorator Tim Clarke is acclaimed for creating residences that are deep reflections of the people who live in them, as well as of the gorgeous natural environments that surround them. In these luscious pages, you will be transported to fifteen of the most extraordinary homes inspired by the essence of the coast—every one a unique blend of beauty and comfort. In a style Tim identifies as Scandia surf, white paneling, blue-gray hand-blocked curtains, and timeworn driftwood side tables offer a quiet retreat from the owners’ busy lives. Tim’s native woods aesthetic plays out in a sprawling outdoor living room with a reed ceiling and a Balinese light fixture; lush foliage planted around the perimeter lends an exotic ambience. And in a refined beach classic home, where nothing is too precious for the everyday and where flip-flops are welcome, furniture made from weatherproof fabrics and vintage nautical objects make the rooms feel as timeless as khakis and a white shirt. Noted photographer Noah Webb captures the warmth and elegance of these seamlessly connected interiors and exteriors. Paired with Tim’s unique insights into sophisticated yet undeniably fresh design, this beautiful volume will inspire you to channel all that you love about the shore into a truly livable modern home.