{"product_id":"steven-ehrlich-houses-steven-ehrlich-9781580933063","title":"Steven Ehrlich Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA survey of houses designed by Steven Ehrlich, an award-winning architect whose work combines modernist forms with concepts and details drawn from North and West Africa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResidential design forms the core of Steven Ehrlich's award-winning architectural practice. Sixteen houses are presented here, designs characterized by the fusion of powerful modernist forms with the cultural, climatic, and contextual particulars of place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEhrlich spent six years living, teaching, traveling, and studying indigenous vernacular architecture in North and West Africa. During that time he was immersed in the visceral power and raw beauty of \"Architecture Without Architects\" and dazzled by settings like the luminous Zaria Mosque in Nigeria, the textured hill towns of Tunisia, the maze-like souks of Fez, the protected and intimate courtyard houses of Marrakesh, the gravity-defying raised forts of Ghana, and the interconnected desert cities of Algeria.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the same time Ehrlich had a deep commitment to modernism, with its focus on minimalism, honesty in materials, and rooted connection to the land. Over a thirty-year career he has brought these two strands together in the houses he has designed in the desert landscape of Southern California and the Southwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are commonalities in these houses - generous volumes, visual clarity, large windows, interlocking rooms, protected courtyards, structural honesty, richly textured materials, and a connection to nature - but each home is a new beginning, a chance to learn and to create a spatial experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Ehrlich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1580933068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781580933063\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Monacelli Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.73h x 9.38w x 1.09d","brand":"Steven Ehrlich","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48449762590975,"sku":"9781580933063","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab1a5756-1e13-4fe1-927f-198b85cdb1d2.jpg?v=1777264799","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/steven-ehrlich-houses-steven-ehrlich-9781580933063","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}