July

Architectural Review, The, June, 2000

Houses tell us more about their makers, owners and users than any other building type. They offer opportunities for experiment in life, construction and art. At their best, they can inspire ideas for buildings of all kinds and sizes in the imaginations of every architect. At their most intense, they can suggest new ideas of relationships of humankind to nature, artefact to place, technology to the biosphere. In July, the AR looks at some of the most inventive new houses round the world. Tadao Ando has transported his talent and techniques to make an extraordinary villa in Chicago. At the other end of the scale, Georges Maurios has inserted a little house in a Parisian terrace: a model of economic infill. Richard Neutra's fabulous Kaufmann House in Los Angeles, which was one of the inspirations of West Coast Modernism has been beautifully refurbished by Marmol & Radziner, while Kerry Hill has drawn on Equatorial Chinese tradition to make a new interpretation of living in the humid tropics. Miguel Angel Roca's little weekend house near Cordoba in Argentina is a model of how to touch the ground lightly: Ivan Kroupa's studio in Prague has a sensitive distillation of the essence of urban living.

All these, and more, in the July issue, as well as the outstanding results of the recent Commonwealth Association of Architects' student competition for an ecologically aware travellers' rest, and interiors from London's National Portrait Gallery and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Buy this and 11 other issues of the AR conveniently and at a discount by using the subscription form or through our website at www.arplus.com