An architect that I greatly admire is Australian Glenn Murcutt. Known for his sustainable and site sensitive designs, he creates architecture that works together with its surroundings and forces interaction with it. His designs utilize nature to passively heat, cool, daylight and water. His work isn't influenced by trends, but draws from local vernacular architecture, the site and a sound knowledge of materials to inform the design. Murcutt uses materials that are local, sustainable and sometimes even recycled from an existing structure to create buildings that are rich in character and in his words, "touch the earth lightly".
Read an article on Murcutt from the New York Times.
I recommend these books for more info and great pictures of his work.
4 comments:
I like his work a lot. Thanks for the introduction to him. He has a nice range that really responds to location and local vernacular in nice ways.
Of course I love the light relationship to nature he establishes.
I love his stuff...very nice. I'm excited for more of these "positive posts". Very cool.
You speak the language of the trade (so far as I can tell)! Tres interessant.
Hey Christian, this story might interest you. It may be a way to get more homes actually designed by architects out into the world.
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