Type/Variant House (Single Building) - Softcover

James, Vincent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564965236 ISBN 13: 9781564965233

Publisher: Rockport Pub, 1999

Synopsis

The Type/Variant House is unique 8000 square foot house is located on a large lake in Northern Wisconsin. The house is arranged into connected buildings with a main living area with open living, dining and cooking spaces, and adjoining separate bedroom suites. Unique orientations, proportions, and natural light distinguish each of the buildings. Inspired by the rural industrial structures of the upper Midwest, the house is lined with copper, Douglas fir, and blue stone. Architect, Vincent James is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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About the Author

Oscar Riera Ojeda is an editor and designer who practices in the United States, South America, and Europe from his office in Boston. he is vice-director of the Spanish-Argentinian magazine Casa Internacional and is the creator of several series of architecture publications for Rockport Publishers, including Contemporary World Architects, Ten Houses, Single Building, and Art and Architecture. Other architectural publications include the new American series for the Whitney Library of Design, as well as several monographs on the work of renowned architects.

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(re)Visiting the Machine in the Garden, by Thomas Fisher:
Across fields plowed into variegated patterns, past farm sheds wrapped in rusting metal, down a logging road threaded through a deciduous forest, you come upon this house, suddenly, as if it were forgotten in the woods. Looking, at first, like an old ore dock by the lake, a common sight north of here, the Type/Variant House, as architect Vincent James calls it, seems dislocated in time as well as in space. Its facade, composed of stacked, nearly windowless volumes wrapped in oxidizing copper, appears modern and antiquated, robust and ruinous, all at once.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rockport Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564965236
• ISBN 13: 9781564965233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 81
• Editor: Riera Ojeda Oscar