NEW MINIMALIST HOUSES

NEW MINIMALIST HOUSES

Edited by Anja Llorella Oriol

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NEW MINIMALIST HOUSES Copyright 2006 COLLINS DESIGN and LOFT Publications All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address Collins Design, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. HarperCollins books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information, please write: Special Markets Department, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022 First Edition published in 2006 by: Collins Design An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 10 East 53rd Street New York, NY 10022 Tel.: (212) 207-7000 Fax: (212) 207-7654 collinsdesign@harpercollins.com www.harpercollins.com Distributed throughout the world by: HarperCollinsPublishers 10 East 53rd Street New York, NY 10022 Fax: (212) 207-7654 Packaged by LOFT Publications Via Laietana, 32 4. Of. 92 08003 Barcelona, Spain Tel.: +34 932 688 088 Fax: +34 932 687 073 loft@loftpublications.com www.loftpublications.com Editor: Anja Llorella Oriol Translation: Xxxxx Xxxxx Art Director: Mireia Casanovas Soley Layout: Zahira Rodrguez Mediavilla Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Llorella, Anja. New minimalist houses / Anja Llorella Oriol. -- 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-0-06-089316-3 (hardcover) ISBN-10: 0-06-089316-8 (hardcover) 1. Minimal architecture. 2. Architecture, Domestic. 3. Architecture, Modern--20th century. 4. Architecture, Modern--21st century. I. Title. NA682.M55L66 2006 728'.37--dc22 2006018792 Printed in Spain First Printing, 2006

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WATERFRONT HOUSES Villa in the South of France | Atelier Barani Air House | Sambuichi Architects Portas Novas House | Victor Caas St. Andrews Beach Residence | Nik Karalis A&P House | Bauart Villa Blommers | 70F architecture

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URBAN HOUSES Villa Bio | Cloud 9 Patio House | Bernalte-Len Asociados Pilgrims Lane House | Eldridge Smerin Orange Grove | Pugh & Scarpa House in Sarri | GCA Arquitectes Associats Hill Side Residence | Hayball Leonard Stent Architects Fontana House | N Maeda Atelier Barro House | Wood-Marsh Architecture Shimosakunobe K | Rico Turu Architects Studio House in Chikata | Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates House H | Caramel Architekten

MOUNTAIN HOUSES DOK House | Querkraft Architekten House in Beroun | HSH Architekti Pavi House | Johannes Kaufmann Architektur Travella House | Aldo Celoria Architect Hillside House | Johnston Marklee and Associates Sund Bjrnsen Villa | Jarmund-Vigsnaes AS Arkitekter MNAL Sutterlty House | Dietrich Untertrifaller Pausondo House | Javier Iriondo Silvan House in Bera | Jabier Lekuona Errondonea M Lidia House | RCR Arquitectes

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COUNTRY HOUSES Nomad Home | Hobby a. Schuster & Maul House N5 | Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects Floating House | Holodeck Architekten House for Eva & Fritz | Hobby a. Schuster & Maul Steinwendtner House | Hertl Architekten Bellows House | RCR Arquitectes Secano House | Ad hoc SL CC_01 House | Leven Betts Studio Burrawang House | Whitcher Matyear Architects BR House | Marcio Kogan

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inimalism in architecture and design can be traced back to various roots. This is not about a permanently defined style direction, but rather about an aesthetic with different types of influences.

Chinese and Japanese design history also exercised a strong influence on minimalist architecture. Traditional Japanese houses impress with their spacial sleekness, flowing transitions between the inside and outside and use of natural materials with untreated surfaces.

Already at the beginning of the 20th century, the first signs of designing simpler residential spaces and furnishings emerged. New Realism, which later became famous as Bauhaus Style, exerted more and more influence upon architecture, art and design. The term, new realism owes its development to the fact that with the renunciation of prominent artists of the so-called art nouveau before World War I in Germany, a first realism in architecture and the applied arts already existed. The signs of a formal simplication in the applied arts were already apparent at the large Dresden-based applied arts exhibition in 1906. With the founding of the German Work Alliance in 1907, the terms realism, functionalism and modern functional styletogether with the first signs of an industrial design were discussed more and more openly. New realism ended with the power takeover by the Nazis and their culture policy, and many representatives of this movement emigrated to the United States. There minimalist art was created in the 1960s with artworks that appeared to be technically simplified, such as, the equally organized monochromatic cubes of the artist Donald Judd. On the following pages, certain houses are presented whose emphasis is on the In the 1980s, the British architect John Pawson published the book, Minimum, which strongly influenced the design world. His displays show how his style was influenced by Zen Buddhism. Simplicity became a philosophy of life and a type of individual liberation. interaction with the surroundings. For other projects on these pages, innovative material selection, as well as the search for new structures is the top priority. Despite various points of departure, these designs are connected by the search for new means of expression that enrich the concept of minimalism with new ideas. To some extent, buildings are covered in nontransparent materials such as wood, with light directed indoors via small holes. This method of building cladding changes the status of the faade, which is released more and more from superficiality and established as an individual interspatial structure. In addition to features such as sleekness and emptiness, light plays a major role in minimalist architecture, and achieves status as a building material. The use of light as a construction material is not, limited to contact with a natural light source but, rather, includes artificial illumination elements, which serve to support the architectonic concepts. In order to direct this light outside as well as inside, transparent materials such as glass are used again and again. In this way, the themes of transparency and faade are a primary concern of minimalist architecture. In addition to the direct use of glazed faade surfaces, some architects prefer the semitransparent features of opaque claddings.