Lake/Flato (Contemporary World Architects)

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Summary: Creative Regionalism
Review: From Texas to Florida to Australia! What do they have in commo? Regional architecture based upon site and climate. Lake-Flato do beautiful, regional architecture and this book documents their work in a clear and deliberate manner with many photos. Two wishes. One, floor plans and site plans to help us see how the elements relate to both. Two, a second volume documenting their more recent work. If you like contemporary casual with metal roofs, concrete, stone and wood and a relation of indoor to outdoors buy this book. You will enjoy it!

Rating:
Summary: Creative Regionalism
Review: From Texas to Florida to Australia! What do they have in commo? Regional architecture based upon site and climate. Lake-Flato do beautiful, regional architecture and this book documents their work in a clear and deliberate manner with many photos. Two wishes. One, floor plans and site plans to help us see how the elements relate to both. Two, a second volume documenting their more recent work. If you like contemporary casual with metal roofs, concrete, stone and wood and a relation of indoor to outdoors buy this book. You will enjoy it!

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Summary: excellent coverage of firm's early work
Review: lake/flato made a name for themselves as residential specialists. this book covers that beginning. the end of the book starts to cover a new range of the work that the firm was beginning to enter at the publishing date. the sensitivity and attention to detail is translating into larger non-residential commissions. the character of the firm and its work is dramatically changing, but this book serves as a strong introduction to the topics that interest and inform l/f's work now and hopefully in the future.

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Summary: west coast architecture connosieur
Review: Wow ! What incredible discipline from such young minds. They just remeber how the beauty of nature is the master artist and they always "check" to it's greatness. The bonus spaces (porches, deep roof overhangs, courtyards, etc.) increase the value of their architectural products. By "forever erasing" the barrier between the indoors and outdoors - this truly reinforces their love of nature. I wonder how many other of their piers have the courage to check their ego's at the drawing board and pay homage to the power and honest beauty of nature?