Concrete Houses: The Poetics of Form

Product Description Concrete has conviction, strength and directness. It has plasticity, too, which makesthe possibilities for form-making almost endless.Concrete Houses explores the sculptural possibilities of concrete as the materialof choice in landmark contemporary houses across Australia, Brazil, Portugal, Japan,Sweden, the Netherlands and the USA, from the hands of major internationalarchitects including Sou Fujimoto, Tom Kundig, Valerio Olgiati and Marcio Kogan, andAustralians such as Peter Stutchbury, Alex Popov, Ian McDougall and Neil Durbach.Illustrated throughout with exceptional colour photography, and selected plansand drawings, Concrete Houses celebrates the incontrovertible fusion of concrete’sversatility and brute force to make timeless architecture of lyric beauty.Table of ContentsThe Poetics of Form • Camberwell House, Melbourne, Australia • Dovecote, Braga,Portugal • Casa Plana, Porto Feliz, Brazil • Villa Além, Alentejo, Portugal • It Is a Garden,Nagano, Japan • The Pierre, San Juan Islands, USA • Lune de Sang Pavilion, NorthernNew South Wales, Australia • Indigo Slam, Sydney, Australia • Invisible House, BlueMountains, Australia • Marama House, Sydney, Australia Review An ode to concrete offers architecture as a poetry of geometry and mathematics blueprints pushed to the limits of gravity and perception --AestheticaProperty joy for concrete lovers --The Herald About the Author Joe Rollo reviews architecture for The Age newspaper, Melbourne, and is the founding editor of C+A, an international magazine of concrete architecture.