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Cargando... Earth to Spirit: In Search of Natural Architecture (1994)por David Pearson
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An architect who has been actively involved in inner city and new community housing for most of his working life, David Pearson has travelled the world in search of buildings both modern and traditional that combine the beauty and freedom of nature with a sense of physical and spiritual wellbeing. Featuring over 150 illustrations of innovative structures, this thought-provoking volume integrates the lessons of the past with the technology of the present in creating structures where the land, the home, and the spirit co-exist harmoniously. Earth to Spirit offers inspiring reading for architecture buffs, environmentalists, and anyone interested in designing or building their own home. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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In recent winters I've read other books about architecture—Michael Pollan's "A Place of My Own;" Tedd Benson's "Timberframe;" Catherine Slessor's "See-Through Houses;" Gestalt's "Stay Wild." Like this book, most of these others aren't recently-published (with the exception of "Stay Wild"), and have more to do with the aesthetic of my upbringing than the current moment.
I recently asked three architect friends for book recommendations related to residential Living Buildings. Nothing they recommended seemed worth following up on, so I ended up reading this instead.
The book has me thinking about what Andreas Weber says regarding gesture. Gesture, or gestalt, communicates the essence of something. When you are present and observing, it isn't hard to tap into. Our own bodies can metabolize the gestures that surround us. Living in the times we do, one of the primary gestures we encounter are of the "built environment" surrounding us. Residential homes—the places we spend most of our time (especially in this post-office era)—have an outsized impact on our daily experience.
The inquiry of this book is timeless. It includes a survey of traditional natural ways of building from across the world. It also looks at what were, in the early 1990s, a resurgence and reinvention of traditional natural building.
It seems this book, and its author, have been lost to the sands of time. Given the bent natural building in recent decades, I'm surprised that, in doing a web search, almost nothing shows up about David Pearson. Many of the projects he highlights at the end of the book have also since disappeared (although some have continued to persist and evolve).
The book is a quick and easy read—more than half of the page count are photos with detailed captions. This book certainly isn't the exhaustive magnum opus that Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language," has become; maybe this is one of the reasons it hasn't endured. That said, it is still a beautiful, genuine, and inspiring work. I wish there were more books being written today in this style! ( )