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Terms and conditions applyHouse: Black Swan Theory
Steven Holl
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Format: Book
Pages: 175
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Date Published: Apr 2007
Stock Code: 60460
Binding: Hardback
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House brings us up-to-date on Holl's most recent residences and collects his best-known projects from the past including a total of15 of Holl's residential works. Rather than having an unvarying style, these houses aim at the sometimes elusive ideal of the specific. Each house tackles a different design challenge, using site as the physical and metaphysical foundation upon which to build. Fusing building and situation, Holl creates a unique expression in each home. Beautiful and innovative, the houses span the globe, ranging from a secluded location in Hawaii, to the Catskill Mountains of New York, to Martha's Vineyard, to the Hague in the Netherlands.
Each project is accompanied by Holl's charming watercolor building studies as well as an insightful explanation of how he was inspired by the land upon which the house sits and how the sumptuous materials utilised reflect the spirit of the location.
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Reviewed by Julie Bowyer, Editorial Assistant for Grand Designs magazine
One gets the impression that Steven Holl isn’t impressed by the upsurge of futuristic homes sprouting up across our 21st century landscape. Yet his project the Turbulence House, featured here, is a space-age metal prefab, with an arch-shaped wind tunnel running through the middle. So what excuses it in Holl’s opinion? The way that building and site work together, and the house’s subservience to the elements – that’s what. In this manifesto-style offering, Holl attempts to state the case for us to go back to basics with architectural design. Unhappy with our constant ‘recycling’ of design, Holl argues that buildings need to be sculpted to sit firmly within their landscape. He claims that none of the fifteen homes profiled in the book are prototypical and he’s right. Not only are there no telltale signatures of other architects, there are no comparisons made in Holl’s profile of the projects– which usually dog the majority of architectural critiques these days. This refreshing tack leads instead to the undressed argument that the author’s trying to put across: that we need to return to the simple geometry of architectural dialectics: light and shade, inside and outside, and nature and artefact – things that can only be reviewed in relation to the house’s environment. A fresh look at experimental architecture, featuring honest architectural photography, makes this an essential read for anyone who’s enjoying the rollercoaster ride of residential architecture these days.
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