20thCenturyHouses
A01=Inaki Abalos
A01=Paul Hammond
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
AndyWarhol
Author_Inaki Abalos
Author_Paul Hammond
automatic-update
BusterKeaton
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AMA
Category=AMC
Category=AMK
Category=AMKD
COP=Switzerland
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Housing
IconicDesign
Ideas
Language_English
ModernDesign
ModernLiving
PA=Available
Picasso
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
ResidentialArchitecture
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9783038600510
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 155 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 22 May 2017
- Publisher: Park Books
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
With his book The Good Life, Iñaki Ábalos takes the reader on a tour of seven iconic 20th-century houses. Some of them were actually built, others merely imagined or film sets: Mies van der Rohe's House with Three Patios, Martin Heidegger's cabin in the Black Forest, the houses from Jacques Tati's movie Mononcle, Picasso's house in Cannes, the New York loft of Andy Warhol and the Factory, the self-build house from Buster Keaton's movie One Week, the house in David Hockney's painting A Bigger Splash.
Ábalos's selection represents a variety of concepts for living. It is based on a clear archetypal assignment of a place to a particular modern way of living. He analyses each house from key philosophical points of view. He demonstrates relations between architectural concepts, philosophical schools, and various approaches to planning and designing, constructing, and inhabiting a space. Ábalos offers an intellectual introduction to these icons, rather than a manual for the design of residential architecture. He focuses on the 20th-century's radical pluralism, rather than celebrating modernism as a triumph of positivism.
This new and revised edition of this book, first published in 2001 by Gustavo Gili and out of print for many years now, makes the significant contribution to the perennial discourse on concepts of living available again.
Iñaki Ábalos is co-director of Ábalos+Sentkiewicz Arquitectos. He is also a Professor of Architectural Design and director of the Laboratorio de Técnicas y Paisajes Contemporáneos (LTPC) at ETSAM since 2002 and Professor-in-Residence at Harvard Graduate School of Design since 2012.
