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(Дома из дерева и света: Жизнь и архитектура Хэнка Шубарта) American architect Hank Schubart used to be considered as a genius for locating the correct web site for a home and for integrating its layout into the ordinary atmosphere, in order that his homes seem to be as local to the woodland round them because the bushes and rocks. Salt Spring Island, one of many Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada, provided him a spot to create the type of structure that spoke back to its atmosphere, and Schubart-designed houses populate the island. equipped of wooden and glass, suffused with gentle, and orientated to perspectives, they reveal attribute gains: random-width cedar siding, uncovered beams, rusticated stonework. through the years, Schubart’s houses on Salt Spring Island got here to be thought of uniquely Gulf Islands houses. This inviting ebook deals the 1st creation to the lifestyles and structure of West Coast modernist Henry A. Schubart, Jr. (1916–1998). whereas nonetheless in his teenagers, Schubart persuaded Frank Lloyd Wright to just accept him as a Taliesin Fellow, and his year’s apprenticeship within the master’s workshop taught him ideas of designing in concord with nature that he explored in the course of the remainder of his lifestyles. Michele Dunkerley strains Schubart’s profession from his early perform in San Francisco on the famous company Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, to his winning company with Howard Friedman, to his longest enduring specialist achievements on Salt Spring Island, the place he turned the de facto neighborhood architect, designing greater than 230 residential, advertisement, academic, and spiritual initiatives. Drawing classes from his mentors over his many years at the island, he solid a daily structure along with his mastery of aspect and inventiveness. In doing so, he helped outline how the island may perhaps develop with out wasting its soul. colour photos and placement plans reveal Schubart’s amazing houses and different commissions. (Хэнк Шубарт - классик американского модерна, ученик Фрэнка Ллойда Райта. Х. Шубарт считается гением по поиску идеального места для дома и для вписывания его дизайна в окружающую среду. Кажется, что строение столь же «родное» ландшафту, как окружающие его леса, деревья и скалы. В книге представлено творчество Х. Шубарта, фотографии и планы его произведений.)

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