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NEW MINIMALIST HOUSESCopyright 2006 COLLINS DESIGN and LOFT
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Llorella, Anja.New minimalist houses / Anja Llorella Oriol. --
1st ed.p. cm.ISBN-13: 978-0-06-089316-3 (hardcover)ISBN-10:
0-06-089316-8 (hardcover)1. Minimal architecture. 2. Architecture,
Domestic. 3. Architecture,
Modern--20th century. 4. Architecture, Modern--21st century. I.
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Introduction
WATERFRONT HOUS
Villa in the South of
Air House | Sambuichi A
Portas Novas House
St. Andrews Beach R
A&P House | Bauart
Villa Blommers | 70F
URBAN HOUSES
Villa Bio | Cloud 9
Patio House | Bernalte-
Pilgrims Lane Hous
Orange Grove | Pugh &
House in Sarri | GCA
Hill Side Residence
Fontana House | N Ma
Barro House | Wood-M
Shimosakunobe K |
House in Chikata | K
House H | Caramel Archi
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MOUNTAIN HOUSES
DOK House | Querkraft Architekten
House in Beroun | HSH Architekti
Pavi House |Johannes Kaufmann Architektur
Travella House | Aldo Celoria Architect
Hillside House |Johnston Marklee and Associates
Sund Bjrnsen Villa |Jarmund-Vigsnaes AS Arkitekter MNAL
Sutterlty House | Dietrich Untertrifaller
Pausondo House |Javier Iriondo Silvan
House in Bera |Jabier Lekuona Errondonea
M Lidia House | RCR Arquitectes
COUNTRY HOUSES
Nomad Home | Hobby a. Schuster & Maul
House N5 | Claesson Koivisto Rune Architects
Floating House | Holodeck Architekten
House for Eva & Fritz | Hobby a. Schuster & Maul
Steinwendtner House | Hertl Architekten
Bellows House | RCR Arquitectes
Secano House | Ad hoc SL
CC_01 House | Leven Betts Studio
Burrawang House | Whitcher Matyear Architects
BR House | Marcio Kogan
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INTRODU
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M
inimalism in architecture and design can be traced back to
various
roots. This is not about a permanently defined style direction,
but
rather about an aesthetic with different types of
influences.
Already at the beginning of the 20th century, the first signs of
designing simpler
residential spaces and furnishings emerged. New Realism, which
later became
famous as Bauhaus Style, exerted more and more influence upon
architecture,
art and design. The term, new realism owes its development to
the fact that with
the renunciation of prominent artists of the so-called art
nouveau before World
War I in Germany, a first realism in architecture and the
applied arts already
existed. The signs of a formal simplication in the applied arts
were already
apparent at the large Dresden-based applied arts exhibition in
1906. With
the founding of the German Work Alliance in 1907, the terms
realism,
functionalism and modern functional styletogether with the first
signs of an
industrial design were discussed more and more openly. New
realism ended
with the power takeover by the Nazis and their culture policy,
and many
representatives of this movement emigrated to the United States.
There
minimalist art was created in the 1960s with artworks that
appeared to be tech-
nically simplified, such as, the equally organized monochromatic
cubes of the
artist Donald Judd.
In the 1980s, the British architect John Pawson published the
book, Minimum,
which strongly influenced the design world. His displays show
how his style was
influenced by Zen Buddhism. Simplicity became a philosophy of
life and a type
of individual liberation.
Chinese and Japanese design history also exercised a strong
influence o
minimalist architecture. Traditional Japanese houses impress
with their spac
sleekness, flowing transitions between the inside and outside
and use of natu
materials with untreated surfaces.
In addition to features such as sleekness and emptiness, light
plays a major ro
in minimalist architecture, and achieves status as a building
material. The use
light as a construction material is not, limited to contact with
a natural lig
source but, rather, includes artificial illumination elements,
which serve
support the architectonic concepts. In order to direct this
light outside a
well as inside, transparent materials such as glass are used
again and again.
this way, the themes of transparency and faade are a primary
concern
minimalist architecture. In addition to the direct use of glazed
faade surfac
some architects prefer the semitransparent features of opaque
claddings.
To some extent, buildings are covered in nontransparent
materials such as woo
with light directed indoors via small holes. This method of
building claddi
changes the status of the faade, which is released more and more
fro
superficiality and established as an individual interspatial
structure.
On the following pages, certain houses are presented whose
emphasis is on t
interaction with the surroundings. For other projects on these
pages, innovat
material selection, as well as the search for new structures is
the to
priority. Despite various points of departure, these designs are
connected
the search for new means of expression that enrich the concept
of minimalis
with new ideas.
