Santa Fe Modern : contemporary design in the high desert /

Santa Fe Modern reveals the high desert landscape as an ideal setting for bold, abstracted forms of modernist houses. Wide swaths of glass, deep-set portals, long porches, and courtyards allow vistas, color, and light to become integral parts of the very being of a house, emboldening a way to experi...

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Main Authors: Thompson, Helen, 1948-
Group Author: Dunn, Casey; Carpenter, Laura
Published: Monacelli Press,
Publisher Address: New York, New York :
Publication Dates: [2021]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: Santa Fe Modern reveals the high desert landscape as an ideal setting for bold, abstracted forms of modernist houses. Wide swaths of glass, deep-set portals, long porches, and courtyards allow vistas, color, and light to become integral parts of the very being of a house, emboldening a way to experience a personal connection to the desert landscape. The architects featured draw from the New Mexican architectural heritage?they use ancient materials such as adobe in combination with steel and glass, and they apply this language to the proportions and demands exacted by today?s world. The houses they have designed are confident examples of architecture that is particular to the New Mexico landscape and climate, and yet simultaneously evoke the rigorous expressions of modernism. The vigor and the allure of modern art and architecture hearten each other in a way that is visible and exciting, and this book demonstrates the synergistic relationship between art, architecture, and the land.
Carrier Form: 239 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 21 cm
ISBN: 9781580935616
1580935613
Index Number: NA7235
CLC: TU238.2
Call Number: TU238.2/T472
Contents: Core values -- Sky view -- Pueblo revival -- On the verge -- In the spirit -- About light and time -- Cubist movement -- Digging deep -- Light of light -- Sight and sound -- Mad about saffron -- Perfectly imperfect -- Out on a ledge -- Into the wild -- Minimal to the max -- A wall runs through it -- Built to fix -- Elements of style -- In the abstract -- Patterns of light and dark.