Schwartz / Silver Architects: Arthouse - Hardcover

Giovaninni, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0977467295 ISBN 13: 9780977467297

Publisher: Oro Editions, 2007

Synopsis

Conceived as a "museum for living," Schwartz/Silver's Davoli-McDonagh residence in Lincoln, Massachusetts, is filled with individual expression and varied viewpoint. As a work of art that also accommodates other works of art, the house is a veritable prism of creativity. The spirit behind this 14,500 square-foot residence is the husband-and-wife client team of Robert Davoli and Eileen McDonagh--he a blues singer and venture capitalist, she a professor and feminist activist. The couple gave the award-winning firm Schwartz/Silver Architects of Boston free rein to develop a compelling architectural idea. Their sole requirement was that the overall scheme preserve the natural attributes of the five-acre site, with its rolling topography, heavy trees and ground cover, and a steep 80-foot drop-off that leads down to a mile-long lake. This book includes contributions from designers Mikyoung Kim, Tsao & McKown, Office DA and artists such as Milan Klic, Taylor Davis and Ilan Averbuch. The design and building process is chronicled by photographers Shellburne Thurber and Alan Karchmer.

About this title

About the Author:

Oscar Riera Ojeda is an editor and designer based in Philadelphia and New York. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1966, he moved to the United States in 1990. Since that time, Mr. Riera Ojeda has completed more than one hundred books, working with publishers ORO editions, Birkhauser, Byggforlaget, The Monacelli Press, Gustavo Gili, Thames & Hudson, Rizzoli, Whitney Library of Design, Taschen, Images, Rockport, and Kliczkowski. Mr. Riera Ojeda is also the creator of several series of architectural books including Architecture in Detail, Art and Architecture, Contemporary World Architects, Ten Houses, The New American Apartment, as well as The New American House. He is vice-director of the Spanish magazine Casas Internacional and contributor to numerous publications and newspapers in the field.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oro Editions
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0977467295
• ISBN 13: 9780977467297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Ojeda Oscar