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The Eames Houses: Charles and Ray Eames Residential Architecture

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內容簡介 The first comprehensive overview of Charles and Ray Eames’s residential architectureThe Eames Houses is the first comprehensive overview of Charles and Ray Eames’s residential architecture. It includes several previously unpublished buildings and places the powerhouse couple’s architectural work alongside their widely known designs in furniture, exhibitions, and film, showing how they carried consistent design principles across different disciplines.Charles (1907-1978) and Ray (1912-1988) Eames’s residential architecture is defined by their human-centered approach to modernism. Their work demonstrates a deep commitment to structural clarity, user-centered functionality, and the intelligent use of prefabrication. Rather than focusing purely on aesthetics, the Eameses approached architecture as a form of problem-solving, aiming to create flexible systems that offered a background for life and work in all its expressions. This book presents all eight houses they designed between 1945 and 1955, featuring sketches, drawings, letters, and photographs – many of which have never been published before – alongside newly produced diagrams and models that offer further insight into their design process. The book is organized into six chapters, one of which is entirely dedicated to Case Study House No. 8 with newly commissioned photography, together with a wealth of materials from the archives of the Eames Office – many of which are published here for the first time. The book further contextualizes the couple's thinking about domestic living in related fields such as furniture, toy, textile, and graphic design, anchoring the house projects within their work at large. The book accompanies an exhibition in Milan in April 2026 that is planned to travel internationally.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Eckart MaiseEckart Maise is a board director of the Charles & Ray Eames Foundation, an independent design consultant, and former Chief Design Officer of Vitra.Catherine InceCatherine Ince is an independent curator and the Charles & Ray Eames Foundation’s inaugural Research Fellow.Norman FosterNorman Foster is Founder and Executive Chairman of Foster + Partners and President of the Norman Foster Foundation.Eames DemetriosEames Demetrios is the Director of the Eames Office in Los Angeles and a grandson of Charles and Ray Eames, about whom he has published widely.

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最佳賣點 : 首本全面綜覽20 世紀最具影響力的設計師與藝術家夫妻檔伊姆斯住宅建築的作品。收錄多座從未公開過的建築計畫，橫跨他們1945至1955年間攜手設計的八座住宅，透過大量珍貴草圖、書信及影像，將這對設計巨擘的建築成就與享譽全球的家具、展覽及電影設計並列，展現他們不同領域裡始終如一的設計哲學。

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