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The Sea Ranch: Arkitektur, Miljø og Idealisme

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The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and IdealismThe Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and IdealismThe Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and IdealismThe Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and IdealismThe Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism
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I 1965, på ti miles af tågeplaget nordcalifornisk kystlinje, indgik en gruppe arkitekter en pagt med landet. Ingen velplejede græsplæner. Ingen påtvungen orden. Bygninger, der krøb sammen i forbjergene, beklædt med vejrbestandigt træ, orienteret mod vinden snarere end imod den. The Sea Ranch var et argument for, hvordan man skal leve.

Lawrence Halprin planlagde samfundet med den overbevisning, at landskabet i sig selv var arkitekturen. Charles Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, William Turnbull og Joseph Esherick tegnede de tidlige bygninger. Barbara Stauffacher Solomon malede interiørerne i dristige supergrafikker — et farvechok inde i al den tilbageholdenhed. Resultatet var noget virkelig uden fortilfælde: en vestkyst-vernakulær modernisme, der betragtede jordforvaltning og designambition som samme projekt.

Halprins skitser, arkiv- og nutidsfotografier, tegninger og essays placerer The Sea Ranch inden for den bredere historie om californisk arkitektur. Designernes egne stemmer løber gennem hele værket.

Vinder af Society of Architectural Historians' Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award.

Customer Reviews (4.6 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Scarlett ★★★★★

The photos of those low, weathered cedar structures sitting in the coastal grass are worth the price alone, and the essays on how the architects worked with the fog and wind instead of against it are genuinely readable. I've flipped through it three times already and keep finding details I missed.

Carter ★★★★★

The photos of those low, weathered buildings tucked into the headland are gorgeous, and the essays actually explain why the architects refused to fight the fog and wind. It's as much a history of an idea as it is a design book, and I've already loaned it to two friends.

Eli H. ★★★★★

I bought this after seeing the Sea Ranch cabins in person, and the book explains why those buildings hunker into the headland instead of fighting the wind. The essays on the no-lawn philosophy are worth it alone, though I wish the plates were bigger.

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