03795nam a2200409Ia 4500 pucpr 20220712155956.0 043013s2012 txua b s000 0beng 2011038592 9780292729421 0292729421 9780292737143 (e-book) pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET NA737.S3555 D86 2012 720.92 B 23 Dunkerley, Michele 1958- 218856 Houses made of wood and light : the life and architecture of Hank Schubart. / by Michele Dunkerley with Jane Hickie ; photos by Jim Alinder. txt Life and architecture of Hank Schubart. txt 1st edition Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press , 2012. xxv, 182 p. ill. ;col. ;plans. ; 22 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Roger Fullington series in architecture Include Bibliography Foreword / Christopher Macdonald -- First glimpse -- Wright's Taliesin: "The most informing experience of my life" -- Making of a West Coast modernist -- An Emerging sensibility: the Pirkle Jones house -- Salt Spring Island -- The Practice flourishes -- Early homes -- Village architect -- Houses from the 1980s -- Mastery at work -- House tour: Houses from the 1990s -- Afterword / Heather McKinney -- 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. Schubart, Hank 1916-1998. 274917 Local Architects United States Biography. 54076 Local Architecture Domestic British Columbia Saltspring Island History 20th century. 54087 Local Schubart, Hank 1916-1998. 274917 Alinder, James. 194718 Hickie, Jane. 234966 lcc 6 1st edition NA737.S3555 General D86 2012 231499 231499 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2013-04-12 Amazon 37.16 505141 0 General NA737.S3555 D86 2012 91000000036343 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 47.16 2013-04-12 6