內容簡介
內容簡介 An exploration of the use of concrete in landmark contemporary residential architecture. Concrete has conviction, strength and directness. It has plasticity, too, which makesthe possibilities for form-making almost endless. Concrete Houses explores the sculptural possibilities of concrete as the materialof choice in landmark contemporary houses across Australia, Brazil, Portugal, Japan,Sweden, the Netherlands and the USA, from the hands of major internationalarchitects including Sou Fujimoto, Tom Kundig, Valerio Olgiati and Marcio Kogan, andAustralians such as Peter Stutchbury, Alex Popov, Ian McDougall and Neil Durbach.Illustrated throughout with exceptional colour photography, and selected plansand drawings, Concrete Houses celebrates the incontrovertible fusion of concrete sversatility and brute force to make timeless architecture of lyric beauty. Table of Contents The Poetics of Form Camberwell House, Melbourne, Australia Dovecote, Braga, Portugal Casa Plana, Porto Feliz, Brazil Villa Além, Alentejo, Portugal It Is a Garden, Nagano, Japan The Pierre, San Juan Islands, USA Lune de Sang Pavilion, Northern New South Wales, Australia Indigo Slam, Sydney, Australia Invisible House, Blue Mountains, Australia Marama House, Sydney, Australia
