25 Houses by the Sea (25 Achievements) (French Edition), Paperback Book, By: Desmoulins, Christine

From the shores of the Mediterranean to those of the Atlantic and the Pacific, the design of holiday villas has sparked true architectural modernity. Indeed, the mythical villa of Curzio Malaparte in Capri, the beautiful American women of John Lautner or Paul Rudolph in the United States, the villa Noailles, the E 1027 house of Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici and the cabanon of Le Corbusier punctuate the history of seaside architecture. Today, architects compete in tricks to anchor these houses on improbable land, protect them from wind and corrosion thanks to selected materials, reveal sublime views, install swimming pools and terraces in belvedere; inventive typologies draw their sources from vernacular architecture to draw formal and environmental lessons. From France to Japan, via Australia, Greece and South America, this book offers a choice of 25 recent works. Very different in scale, aesthetics and budget, they are approached from three themes: the house on a promontory, the house with its feet in the water and the house hidden in the site, providing multiple responses to often contexts. difficult, sometimes exceptional but always offering rich architectural possibilities.