Steven
Ehrlich houses / text by Nancy Griffin ; introduction by Sam Lubell
Monacelli Press, New York : cop.
2011.
239 p. : il. col., planos
ISBN 9781580933063
Materias:
Biblioteca Sbc Aprendizaje A-72 EHRLICH STE
Residential design forms the core of Steven Ehrlich's
award-winning architectural practice. Sixteen houses are presented here,
designs characterized by the fusion of powerful modernist forms with the
cultural, climatic, and contextual particulars of place. Ehrlich spent six
years living, teaching, traveling, and studying indigenous vernacular
architecture in North and West Africa. During that time he was immersed in the
visceral power and raw beauty of 'Architecture Without Architects' and dazzled
by settings like the luminous Zaria Mosque in Nigeria, the textured hill towns
of Tunisia, the maze-like souks of Fez, the protected and intimate courtyard
houses of Marrakesh, the gravity-defying raised forts of Ghana, and the
interconnected desert cities of Algeria. At the same time Ehrlich had a deep commitment
to modernism, with its focus on minimalism, honesty in materials, and rooted
connection to the land. Over a thirty-year career he has brought these two
strands together in the houses he has designed in the desert landscape of
Southern California and the Southwest. There are commonalities in these
houses'generous volumes, visual clarity, large windows, interlocking rooms,
protected courtyards, structural honesty, richly textured materials, and a
connection to nature'but each home is a new beginning, a chance to learn and to
create a spatial experience.
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