Main entry:

Devesa, Ricardo, 1971- author.

Title & Author:

Outdoor domesticity : on the relationships between trees, architecture and inhabitants / Ricardo Devesa ; with contributions by María Teresa Muñoz, Iñaki Ábalos ; translation, copy editing and proofreading, Angela Kay Bunning.

Publication:

New York : Actar Publishers, 2021.

Description:

325 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-315).
Foreword / María Teresa Muñoz -- Introduction : Relationships of contiguity between house and trees ; How do houses change as they incorporate trees? ; Trees in the mythological and technical origins of architecture ; Purpose ; The five case studies -- La Casa / Bernard Rudofsky : Compendium of an architectural vision ; La Casa adapted to the trees and surroundings ; Skeletal architecture ; Walls breached by trees ; The patio: a room without a ceiling ; The porch: nucleus of the house ; In search of a new way of living ; The meanings of the tree -- Caesar Cottage / Marcel Breuer : A house "built in the USA" ; Sun and shadow ; Architecture of the landscape ; Backdrops and structural frameworks ; Paul Klee's influence on the Caesar Cottage ; Transition from chaos to order -- Villa La Roche / Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret : Cohabitation between people and nature ; Three trees at the Villa La Roche ; A window, a tree ; A big Fenêtre en Longueur for a small house ; The enclosure, the interior and the porch facing Lake Geneva ; Two temples akin to the Villa Le Lac ; The house is a box in the air, pierced all around, facing trees -- Villa Pepa / Juan Navarro Baldeweg : The rural landscape as a foundation ; Relationships between the house and the trees ; The bridge-gallery and the Carob tree ; The square and the Cypresses ; Frozen time ; Complementary space ; Simultaneous time ; The house: the theater for life -- Hexenhaus / Alison and Peter Smithson : Making a sheltered enclave ; Axel and Karlchen's porch ; A calm cell in nature ; The witch's broom room (Hexenbesenraum) ; The lantern pavilion ; Bringing trees into the house ; The tree as a formal, structural and vital pattern -- Theoretical contributions : Houses with trees ; Making a place with a tree ; The vector of time in architecture ; Outdoor domesticity -- Afterword / Iñaki Ábalos -- On the subject-house-tree relationship.

Summary:

The first part of this publication is to present a collection of exemplary five houses that evinced explicit relationships with preexisting trees. The five twentieth century projects are: La Casa (B. Rudofsky, 1969), Cottage Caesar (M. Breuer, 1951), Ville La Roche (Le Corbusier & P. Jeanneret, 1923), Villa Pepa (J. Navarro Baldeweg, 1994) and Hexenhaus (A. & P. Smithson, 1984-2002). The second part of the book is to contribute with three theoretical concerns for the contemporary project, those ones which are established in the process, with respect to time, place and outdoor domesticity in modern western housing. One of these theoretical contributions establishes that any house located on a site finds a significant place in conjunction with the preexisting trees. The second contribution describes the effects in terms of time, in addition to spatial considerations, which trees can contribute to the architectural project. Finally, the establishment of these connections between architecture and trees enlarges the idea of the house: the tree serves to draw the surrounding environment into the house and, as a result, becomes an intrinsic part of the house itself.

ISBN:

9781948765718 hardcover
1948765713 hardcover

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Environmental aspects.
Architecture Psychological aspects.
Trees Miscellanea.
Architecture Aspect psychologique.
Arbres Miscellanées.
Plants in architecture

Added entries:

Muñoz, María Teresa, writer of foreword.
Abalos, Iñaki, 1956- writer of afterword.
Bunning, Angela Kay, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315545
Call No.: 315545
Copy: 1
Status: Available