Main entry:

Abalos, Iñaki, 1956- author.

Title & Author:

The good life : a guided visit to the houses of modernity / Iñaki Ábalos ; translation, Paul Hammond.

Edition:

New, revised and updated edition.

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2017]
©2017

Description:

255 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Translation of: La buena vida.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254).
Prologue -- Introduction -- Zarathustra's house -- Heidegger in his refuge: the existentialist house -- Jacques Tati's machine for living in: the positivist house -- Picasso on vacation: the phenomenological house -- Warhol at The Factory: from Freudo-marxist communes to the New York loft -- Huts, parasites, and nomads: the deconstruction of the house -- A Bigger Splash: the house of pragmatism -- Epilogue.
In English; translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

With his book The Good Life, Inaki Abalos takes the reader on a tour of seven iconic 20th-century houses. Some of them were actually built, others merely imagined or film sets: Mies van der Rohe's House with Three Patios, Martin Heidegger's cabin in the Black Forest, the houses from Jacques Tati's movie Mon Oncle, Picasso's house in Cannes, the New York loft of Andy Warhol and the Factory, the self-build house from Buster Keaton's movie One Week, the house in David Hockney's painting A Bigger Splash. Abalos's selection represents a variety of concepts for living. It is based on a clear archetypal assignment of a place to a particular modern way of living. He analyses each house from key philosophical points of view. He demonstrates relations between architectural concepts, philosophical schools, and various approaches to planning and designing, constructing, and inhabiting a space.

ISBN:

9783038600510 (paperback)
3038600512 (paperback)

Subject:

Architect-designed houses.
Architecture, Domestic 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Philosophy.
Maisons conçues par des architectes.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture, Domestic History 20th century.
Architecture Human factors

Added entries:

Hammond, Paul, 1947 July 19- translator.
Abalos, Iñaki, 1956- Buena vida : visita guiada a las casas de la modernidad.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296725
Call No.: BIB 243073
Notes: Project: Dear Architect
Status: External loan