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This text is an essay on the relationship between ways of thinking, the rich seams of contemporary thought and the forms of the house, of planning and living in it. The descriptive method is based on seven guided visits to a group of real or imaginary houses that make up a sufficiently extended panorama for understanding what the 20th century has bequeathed to us in the way of a heritage. In order to choose the houses to visit it was necessary to narrow things down, simplify them, by highlighting a series of archetypes defined by their most pronounced features. The reader, then, won't find any of the masterworks built by modern architects -neither the Villa Savoye, nor Fallingwater, nor the Villa Tugendhat-but mostly imaginary houses, houses constructed by manipulating different references. In short, this book invites the reader on a fantasy tour, one whose aim is not just to celebrate the diversity of the 20th-century house but also to stimulate the pleasure of thinking, planning and living intensely, to promote the appearance of a house that does not yet exist.
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Iñaki Ábalos is codirector of Ábalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos. He is professor of architectural design at the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid and professor in residence of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Paul Hammond is a writer, editor, and translator based in Barcelona.
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“A man’s home may be his castle, but whether that castle is an old farmhouse, a glass hut, or a compact unit will determine the kind of king he is. Iñaki Ábalos’s The Good Life tours dwellings real and imagined. . . .What matters most to Ábalos is the kind of inhabitant, and philosophy, that each one implies.” (Harper's)
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- PublisherEditorial Gustavo Gili, S.L.
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 8425218306
- ISBN 13 9788425218309
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages200
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The Good Life: A guided visit to the houses of modernity (English)
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: NF. English ONLY. Orange card wraps with color illustration and bw lettering. 207 pp. with bw images throughout. Text in ENGLISH ONLY! "The Good Life takes the reader on a tour of the houses that the 20th century has bequeathed to us, the aim being to free his or her vision of various preconceptions and prejudices of a professional kind. This is a tour that, reclaiming the century's radical plurality, undermines the idea of modernity as the triumphant experience of positivism. The Good Life is an invitation to travel in the imagination, not onlyk to celebrate the diversity of 20th century houses, but also to stimulate the pleasure of thinking, planning and living intensely, to encourage the invention of a house that doesn't yet exist." (from the back cover) With a Prologue, 7 main chapters (well-illustrated), Epilogue, Bibliography, and more. Seller Inventory # 154812
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