Reside : contemporary West Coast houses. / txt
Michael Prokopow.
- 239 p. : ill. ; plans ; 27 cm. book
Departments: 8 West Coast Modern Houses: The Next Generation- Clinton Cuddington -- 10 Preface Michael Prokopow -- 13 The Houses Michael Prokopow -- 15 Mountain -- 17 Treetop House- Evoke International Design -- 21 Wedge Residence- Hemsworth Architecture -- 25 Cedar Grove- hunterOffice Architecture -- 29 Camera House- Leckie Studio Architecture + Design -- 33 Trail’s Edge- Openspace Architecture -- 37 The Rollover House- Studio 9 Architecture + Planning -- 41 Forest -- 43 Howard House- Architecture Building Culture -- 47 Bonetti II Residence- Battersbyhowat Architects -- 51 Quayle House- Coast + Beam Architecture -- 55 Forest Cabin- Helen Pang Architecture -- 63 Berkley House- Rafael Santa Ana Architecture Workshop -- 67 Saanich Farmhouse- Scott & Scott Architects -- 71 Hummingbird House- Studio 531 Architects -- 75 Shore -- 77 Ocean Park Residence Burgers Architecture -- 81 Sooke 01 House Campos Studio -- 85 Funnel Cove House DAUstudio -- 89 Collingwood Residence Frits De Vries Architects + Associates -- 93 Southern Gulf Islands House- Gates-Suter Architects -- 97 Shor House Measured Architecture -- 101 Bowen Island House Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers -- 105 Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency Simcic Architecture Studio -- 109 City -- 111 The Cube House A A Robins Architect -- 115 East Georgia Flats Airstudio -- 119 Devereaux / Freeman House- Broster Design -- 123 East 3rd House Carscaden Stokes McDonald Architects -- 127 Heaccity Studio Architecture -- 131 Union MA + HG Architects -- 135 Exeter House- Pechet Studio -- 139 Subtract House Ply Architecture -- 143 In Between House Rufproject -- 147 John Street 2 Scott Posno Design -- 151 Riley Park House Shape Architecture -- 155 St. Francis Wood STA Office Architecture -- 158 The “BC Idiom” Revisted The Contemporary House in the Millenial Age Michael Prokopow -- 167 The Firms -- 236 Acknowledgements -- 236 Notes -- 239 About the Authors --
"Decades after gaining international recognition through the work of practitioners such as Barry Downs, Arthur Erickson, and Ron Thom, the West Coast Modern style remains widely celebrated and highly influential for residential architects in British Columbia and beyond, even as its expressions evolve and adapt to contemporary contexts. What are the contours of its legacy today--and has a new regional style emerged? To explore these questions, Clinton Cuddington, co-principal of Measured Architecture, invited dozens of B.C.-based architects to share residential projects that exemplify their design process. Their responses range from palatial mountain chalets to cabins sitting lightly in the forest to oceanfront retreats to sensitive urban renovations. Each house is presented through full-colour photos by professional photographers including Andrew Latreille and Ema Peter, and accompanied by short essays by curator and critic Michael Prokopow that draw on visits to each house and interviews with the architects to elucidate the many aesthetic and programmatic accomplishments on display. The houses are grouped by typology within Mountain, Forest, Shore, and City sections, and followed by profiles of each firm with photos of additional work. As Prokopow details in an incisive essay, each house is necessarily also a response to the conditions of its creation, notably its site--locations include the Sea-to-Sky Region, Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, Southern Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and the West Kootenays--as well as its social and cultural context, and so is revealing of modern ideas about home and family, leisure and vocation, ecological concerns and communion with nature on Canada's West Coast. With thoughtful, deeply informed prose and over 300 captivating photos, is an absorbing and inspiring tour of some of the most exceptional houses in the country, and a portrait of how the unique character of the region is expressed in built form."-- Provided by publisher
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