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Meier, Richard

 
9781885254276: Ackerberg House and Addition (One house series)
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ISBN 10: 188525427X ISBN 13: 9781885254276
Editorial: Monacelli Press, 1996

Sinopsis

This is one in a series of books dedicated to residential buildings built by internationally-known architects or architectural firms since the birth of the modern movement. Told from the architect's perspective and illustrated with sketches, models, plans, construction drawings and photographs, this book focuses on the Ackerberg house and addition, giving a detailed presentation of the house, from conception to the final built work.

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Richard Meier is one of the most important architects of the postwar generation. He opened his New York office in 1963 and, in 1984, became the youngest recipient ever of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture. Meier has built a series of masterful modern houses and a great number of educational, commercial, and cultural facilities, including the Getty Center in Los Angeles, one of the most important commissions of the late twentieth century.
The Ackerberg House, begun at the same time as the Getty Center, explores various responses to California's unique climate and character. Situated between the mountains and the ocean, the house has remarkable views of both. Courtyards refer to the Spanish-colonial court typology of Southern California. While a ceramic-tile-clad facade separates the house from the Pacific Coast Highway, the ocean front is a more dimensional assemblage of posts and sunscreens that blurs the distinction between interior and exterior and invites casual passage to the out-of-doors.
In 1992, six years after the house was completed, the Ackerbergs asked the architect to return. Despite his initial misgivings, Meier added a third story to the guest quarters, keeping the scale and proportions of the original composition but adding a new spatial progression and sense of expansion. He discovered, he writes, that he was able "to change a house for the better and to infuse it with new life."

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Editorial
Monacelli Press
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
188525427X
ISBN 13 
9781885254276
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
72
Editor
Collins Brad
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