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Steven Ehrlich - Steven Ehrlich Houses - 9781580933063 - V9781580933063
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Steven Ehrlich Houses

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Description for Steven Ehrlich Houses hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 200 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AMK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 297 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1658.

A survey of houses designed by Steven Ehrlich, an award-winning architect whose work combines modernist forms with concepts and details drawn from North and West Africa

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The Monacelli Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781580933063
SKU
V9781580933063
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Steven Ehrlich
Steven Ehrlich is the principal of Ehrlich Architects, based in Los Angeles. His firm has received multiple honors from the American Institute of Architects and is recognized for excellence in sustainabilty and environmental design.

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2015 AIA Architecture Firm Award Winner

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