Adobe Houses: Homes of Sun and Earth
ISBN-13:
9780789335739
ISBN-10:
0789335735
Author:
Kathryn Masson
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books
Format:
Hardcover
240 pages
Category:
Interior Design
,
Architecture
,
Interior & Home Design
,
Decorative Arts & Design
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780789335739
ISBN-10:
0789335735
Author:
Kathryn Masson
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books
Format:
Hardcover
240 pages
Category:
Interior Design
,
Architecture
,
Interior & Home Design
,
Decorative Arts & Design
Summary
Adobe Houses: Homes of Sun and Earth (ISBN-13: 9780789335739 and ISBN-10: 0789335735), written by authors
Kathryn Masson, was published by Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books in 2018.
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Description
Alluring adobe-brick houses of California here hint at the charms of a bygone age while offering, at the same time, a vision for home today.
Adobe residences from the Spanish and Mexican eras were the original California houses. Architects, designers, builders, and homeowners today, as in the past, look to their simple, utilitarian features—such as plain, whitewashed walls, beamed ceilings, and intimate open-air courtyards—and try to emulate their forms to capture the charm of a romanticized past. Leading architects of style movements such as the Spanish Colonial Revival traveled to California and studied its extensive eighteenth and nineteenth century adobes firsthand as the foundation of their education in California architecture.
Made of earth and organic matter, such as straw, adobe is among the oldest of building materials and has been used throughout the world. From the 1770s to the present, adobe buildings such as churches, forts (presidios), mills, residences, warehouses, and stores have been a most important and informative part of California’s architectural heritage.
Adobe Houses presents twenty-three homes, made from adobe, showing interiors and gardens from these often quiet masterworks, ranging from Casa Boronda of 1817 in Monterey to Casa del Oso, a contemporary manifestation, built in Santa Barbara in 2000 that reveals the intriguing range of possibilities available to us when building in this traditional form today.
Adobe residences from the Spanish and Mexican eras were the original California houses. Architects, designers, builders, and homeowners today, as in the past, look to their simple, utilitarian features—such as plain, whitewashed walls, beamed ceilings, and intimate open-air courtyards—and try to emulate their forms to capture the charm of a romanticized past. Leading architects of style movements such as the Spanish Colonial Revival traveled to California and studied its extensive eighteenth and nineteenth century adobes firsthand as the foundation of their education in California architecture.
Made of earth and organic matter, such as straw, adobe is among the oldest of building materials and has been used throughout the world. From the 1770s to the present, adobe buildings such as churches, forts (presidios), mills, residences, warehouses, and stores have been a most important and informative part of California’s architectural heritage.
Adobe Houses presents twenty-three homes, made from adobe, showing interiors and gardens from these often quiet masterworks, ranging from Casa Boronda of 1817 in Monterey to Casa del Oso, a contemporary manifestation, built in Santa Barbara in 2000 that reveals the intriguing range of possibilities available to us when building in this traditional form today.
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