Thompson Helen - Lake Flato: The Houses Respecting The Land - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Presenting their new and recent projects Lake| Flato Architects demonstrate the inexhaustible potential of the modern house to enter into a dialogue with nature. Lake| Flato Architects based in San Antonio and Austin believe first and foremost that architecture should be rooted in its particular place responding in a meaningful way to the natural or built environment. Using local materials and partnering with the best local craftsmen Lake| Flato seek to create buildings that are tactile and modern environmentally responsible and authentic artful and crafted. Now more than thirty years since its founding the firm has grown along with the range and complexity of its projects yet it still considers the desire to build in partnership with the land to be an approach that remains valid and increasingly resonant. Lake| Flato's first projects were houses and these projects excite the firm still. By exploring the intimate relationship between family place and building Lake| Flato create unique living environments that possess a compelling authenticity and beauty.
Title: Lake Flato: The Houses Respecting The Land
Author(s): Thompson Helen
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Barcode: 9780847869992
Pages: 272 Pages, 200 Colour Photographs
Publication Date: 11/30/2021
Category: Architecture