Arcadian Architecture: Work of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

34 x 25 cm- A tight, clean, and unmarked copy-" The Pennsylvanian architectural practice, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, has received numerous national and international awards for its innovative designs. From the acclaimed Apple Store in New York City to Bill Gates's massive residential complex near Seattle, its diverse architecture is alive to the subtleties of place and people, and the rich possibilities of natural materials and means of construction. This volume focuses in detail on twelve of the practice's rural homes, from Forest House, a Connecticut summer retreat built for Peter Bohlin's parents in 1975 - and the first of his works to receive widespread acclaim - to Point House, a year-round family compound built in 2001. Each house stands in full sympathy with its environment, at the same time rustic and elegantly modern. Wood, stone, textured concrete, and water features all blend seamlessly into the surrounding landscape, setting off effortlessly the natural beauty of the site and the materials. Copiously illustrated with full-color photographs of exteriors and interiors, each section is accompanied by a brief description of the house and its context.- The architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson believes that "the sensuality of place, the emotive qualities of materials, and the ability to give pleasure and insight, to comfort and to transport can produce humane and spirited architecture." Whether designing corporate headquarters for Pixar Animation Studios, the Software Engineering Institute for Carnegie Mellon University, the new Apple Stores in New York, Chicago, and Tokyo, or the twelve wooded retreats shown in this book, the firm's architecture is alive to the subtleties of place, man-made or natural, and to the rich possibilities of materials and the means of construction. The houses in Arcadian Architecture are exquisitely crafted of wood and stone and other raw materials. They are all sited within beautiful wooded, mountainous, or lakeside locales, from New York State to Washington State, and from the woods of Connecticut to the mountains of Montana. One of the highlights of this book is that it publishes, for the first time, the extraordinary, huge, extremely private, and secluded, residential complex in Washington State that was built for Bill and Melinda Gates. Each house is presented on at least thirty pages, depicted by sumptuous new color photography, richly detailed conceptual sketches, presentation drawings, and construction documents."- illustrated, no jacket, none issued.7 Lbs.Heavy Book-Nicely Illustrated.