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This is important because it is so beautiful. Formentera, named for the Spanish island where interior designer Juan Montoya once lived, is a 110-acre site near the Hudson River town of Garrison, New York. There is, of course, an interesting house with skillful interiors, but the emphasis here is on nature—trees, forests, streams and ponds, subtly augmented with sculpture, walls and walks. Idyllic.
A compilation that deserves the adjective magisterial. Included are almost 800 20th-century buildings by almost 700 architects in 97 countries, almost all given exterior and interior photographs, floor plans, and explanatory texts. Who has the most entries? Le Corbusier with 12 buildings, followed by Marcel Breuer and Oscar Niemeyer with 11 each. An amazing reference.
England’s famously minimalist architect and designer here shares not his recent work (although some details of his own London house are included) but 260 full-page images from the hundreds of thousands he has collected around the world. I find it fascinating to see what has attracted and inspired him. Some things are, as expected, minimal—one of them just a streak of light on a wall—but many of them, such as a Gothic Revival stair by George Gilbert Scott, not minimal in the least.
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Modern Modular
by Joseph Tanney and Robert Luntz
from Princeton Architectural Press
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November 26, 2013
Piero Guidi
by Piero Guidi
from Rizzoli International Publications
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November 26, 2013
Lina Bo Bardi
by Zeuler Rocha Mello de Almeida Lima; foreword by Barry Bergdoll
from Yale University Press
New Title Release:
December 3, 2013
Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City
by Robert A.M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove
from The Monacelli Press
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