- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Electa Architecture (1 Sep 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904313442
- ISBN-13: 978-1904313441
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 869,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Considered one of his country's leading young talents, Sean Godsell has built a reputation outside of his native Australia for his houses - from the couture to the assembly line. While his elegant Carter Tucker House, a weekend retreat designed for a photographer and his partner, is a glass box sheathed in panels of slender cedar battens; many of these panels are in fact operable flaps that, when opened during the day, allow the house to be transformed into a naturally lit photography studio. On the other end of the spectrum, is Godsell's prototype FutureShack, a prefabricated emergency relief housing unit made of recycled shipping containers. This unit was on view at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City during the summer of 2004. This book documents all 23 of Godsell's projects to date, including built works as well as competition entries for larger scale buildings.
About the Author
Leon van Schaik is a professor of Architecture at RMIT in Melbourne. In 2000, he was the curator of the Australian pavilion at the VII Biennale di Architettura in Venice. Author's Residence: Melbourne, Australia
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Architecture worthy of note
17 Aug 2005
Format:Hardcover
Sean Godsell is a rare find. His work is both technological and refined, proving once and for all that true architecture belongs to those with an eye for design and total dedication to the discipline. Mies is present in his work, as is Le Corbusier, but also a healthy dose of traditional Australian patterns and textures. Spare modern forms meld beautifully with rich weathered materials - each work is a tribute to its unique setting in the landscape, immediately recalling the modernist elegance of Breuer and Seidler or the simple drama of the Case Study Houses. This is not to say that Godsell is stuck in the past, however. Indeed, many of the rich materials are off-the-shelf industrial items - stair treads, expanded and corrugated metal, stock pulleys and pneumatic hinges. Godsell suggests to us a modern world that is far from scary, far from cold, far from the dystopian nightmares propogated by science fiction film sets. Instead, he gives us progress - a better world, environmentally-sensitive, technologically-advanced, simply beautiful.
This will be the first of many monographs of Sean Godsell's work. He is young and energetic - and at the beginning of a great career.
This will be the first of many monographs of Sean Godsell's work. He is young and energetic - and at the beginning of a great career.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
contemporary Australian architecture
3 April 2008
Format:Hardcover
Sean Godsell: Works
The architect like his Australian contemporary Glenn Murcutt practices in the modality of a critical regionalism. The oeuvre of houses shows an architect concerned with the effects of the environment on human occupation, as his buildings are mostly formed by the skin of timbers used to manipulate light and air entering the facilities. This works are twofold giving even larger structures this almost chameleon aesthetic whilst still capturing and shading the effects of nature. Obtuse writing deters the intent of the book - becoming unnecessarily dense in conveying a simple aesthetic.
The architect like his Australian contemporary Glenn Murcutt practices in the modality of a critical regionalism. The oeuvre of houses shows an architect concerned with the effects of the environment on human occupation, as his buildings are mostly formed by the skin of timbers used to manipulate light and air entering the facilities. This works are twofold giving even larger structures this almost chameleon aesthetic whilst still capturing and shading the effects of nature. Obtuse writing deters the intent of the book - becoming unnecessarily dense in conveying a simple aesthetic.
Rising star from Australia
27 Sep 2007
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Sean Godsell is one of the rising stars of architecture. As most of his work is based in Australia he is perhaps not tha well known in the USA. His work is beautifully restrained and takes the local conditions into consideration without producing expected, trite or traditional responses. There is much to be learned from his elegant work.
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