West Coast Modern House Series

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{"id":5217244250249,"title":"McIntyre House","handle":"mcintyre-house","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe genesis, development and life-long occupation of the McIntyre house, built in 1972 as part of a multiple-dwelling subdivision, provides possible answers to some very pressing contemporary design questions. How might one live near the city and respectful of nature? How might efficiently built dwellings also be spacious and dense site occupation still allow privacy. This history is recounted through text augmented by photographs and site diagrams, house sections and plans. They reveal a modern architecture on the west coast that resulted from an interplay of both the physicality of the land and a culturally imbued landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e","published_at":"2020-09-17T12:22:59-07:00","created_at":"2020-09-17T12:22:58-07:00","vendor":"Sherry McKay","type":"600","tags":["architects","architecture","Architecture \u0026 Landscape Design","book","books","BOOKS1","bookstore","in-stock","local","Made In Canada","public","stock"],"price":3200,"price_min":3200,"price_max":3200,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":34392065736841,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"1943532940","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"McIntyre House","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3200,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/McI.jpg?v=1600370580"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/McI.jpg?v=1600370580","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":9310392778889,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":2100,"width":2100,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/McI.jpg?v=1600370580"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/McI.jpg?v=1600370580","width":2100}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe genesis, development and life-long occupation of the McIntyre house, built in 1972 as part of a multiple-dwelling subdivision, provides possible answers to some very pressing contemporary design questions. How might one live near the city and respectful of nature? How might efficiently built dwellings also be spacious and dense site occupation still allow privacy. This history is recounted through text augmented by photographs and site diagrams, house sections and plans. They reveal a modern architecture on the west coast that resulted from an interplay of both the physicality of the land and a culturally imbued landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e"}

{"id":4770606710921,"title":"Binning House","handle":"9781939621665","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile the house is beloved by a select group of architects, academics, and local heritage buffs, its subtle splendours remain largely hidden to a wider audience. This first book devoted to this exceptional house sheds new light on Binning’s ingenuity. Original photographs and drawings are presented along with writing that analyzes in detail the architectural character of the house that makes it so special.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-25T11:17:01-07:00","created_at":"2020-03-30T15:57:14-07:00","vendor":"Matthew Soules","type":"600","tags":["architects","architecture","Architecture \u0026 Landscape Design","books","BOOKS1","canada","canadian","in-stock","local","Made In Canada","public","stock"],"price":3200,"price_min":3200,"price_max":3200,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39380842709129,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"1939621665","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Binning House","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3200,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/binning.jpg?v=1590109407"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/binning.jpg?v=1590109407","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":8641111916681,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":2100,"width":2100,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/binning.jpg?v=1590109407"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/binning.jpg?v=1590109407","width":2100}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eWhile the house is beloved by a select group of architects, academics, and local heritage buffs, its subtle splendours remain largely hidden to a wider audience. This first book devoted to this exceptional house sheds new light on Binning’s ingenuity. Original photographs and drawings are presented along with writing that analyzes in detail the architectural character of the house that makes it so special.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4770606743689,"title":"Friedman House","handle":"9781939621672","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuilt in 1955, and fully restored in 2014, House Friedman was designed by internationally-trained architect Frederic Lasserre, founder of the UBC School of Architecture. Situated near the university, just outside the city of Vancouver limits, the house combines a modernist aesthetic with a distinctively West Coast Modern ethos. Distinguished by its spatial complexity, and by its seamless relationship to the landscape design of Cornelia Oberlander, the house asserts at once its adherence to global modernism while asserting a local aesthetic that has come to be identified as West Coast Modernism. Architect Lasserre, whose early career was associated with Berthold Lubetkin, and landscaper Oberlander, student of Gropius, together produced an iconic design for modern living featuring an open plan, generous glazing, and a subtle flow between the house and garden. The future of the house was threatened by the exorbitant land values in Vancouver, where the price of property often trumps architectural value; however, a national effort to save the house was successful, and the house remains as a testimony to those who value modernist architecture’s special place in the West Coast ethos.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-25T11:17:01-07:00","created_at":"2020-03-30T15:57:14-07:00","vendor":"Richard Cavell","type":"600","tags":["architects","architecture","Architecture \u0026 Landscape Design","books","BOOKS1","canada","canadian","in-stock","local","Made In Canada","public","stock"],"price":3200,"price_min":3200,"price_max":3200,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":33117975642249,"title":"Hardback Cloth","option1":"Hardback Cloth","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"1939621672","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Friedman House - Hardback Cloth","public_title":"Hardback Cloth","options":["Hardback Cloth"],"price":3200,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"1939621672","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/fredman.jpg?v=1590109902"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/fredman.jpg?v=1590109902","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":8641158512777,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":2100,"width":2100,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/fredman.jpg?v=1590109902"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/fredman.jpg?v=1590109902","width":2100}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eBuilt in 1955, and fully restored in 2014, House Friedman was designed by internationally-trained architect Frederic Lasserre, founder of the UBC School of Architecture. Situated near the university, just outside the city of Vancouver limits, the house combines a modernist aesthetic with a distinctively West Coast Modern ethos. Distinguished by its spatial complexity, and by its seamless relationship to the landscape design of Cornelia Oberlander, the house asserts at once its adherence to global modernism while asserting a local aesthetic that has come to be identified as West Coast Modernism. Architect Lasserre, whose early career was associated with Berthold Lubetkin, and landscaper Oberlander, student of Gropius, together produced an iconic design for modern living featuring an open plan, generous glazing, and a subtle flow between the house and garden. The future of the house was threatened by the exorbitant land values in Vancouver, where the price of property often trumps architectural value; however, a national effort to save the house was successful, and the house remains as a testimony to those who value modernist architecture’s special place in the West Coast ethos.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4770609037449,"title":"Shumiatcher House","handle":"9781940743103","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine a site fifteen minutes from the heart of downtown Vancouver, able to capture in one view: snow-covered mountains and an archipelago, a lighthouse and the downtown skyline, the vegetation of a moderate rainforest and ocean waters. Imagine the same view transgressing national borders to include an active volcano. This is the site where the story of House Shumiatcher unfolds. As the son of Morris Shumiatcher, founder of Smithbilt Hats in Calgary, Judah spent his summers in high school and college learning the art of the hatter. Like so many other North American cities during this period, Calgary was experiencing a postwar housing boom. Judah developed an interest in the delivery of inexpensive, well-designed houses and began to consider an alternate career as a building contractor. After all, work in that sector was abundant and the lifestyle appealing. 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{"id":4770605727881,"title":"Downs House II","handle":"9781935935285","description":"Downs House II presents an original and comprehensive overview of the home that local architect Barry Downs built for himself in West Vancouver. The site overlooks Howe Sound with a panorama formed by the Coastal Mountain Range of British Columbia. This house of modest proportions presents the key and formative qualities that have come to represent a West Coast Modern idiom in architecture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWith past and beam structure clad in cedar shingles, the house characteristically hovers above the rough terrain while remaining intimately engaged with its forest setting. While the dramatic panorama of the living area provides a signature moment in the experience of the house, a variety of more intimate views of the forest and granite outcrop provide a richly textured and ever-changing backdrop to domestic life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe house continues to be occupied by the architect and his wife Mary, and is maintained in meticulous condition. Delightful in itself, the Downs House II also offers testimony to a time of creative generosity in which the design of even modest houses served as a place of exploration. In our current era in which architectural culture commonly privileges the experience of individuality and distinction, it is refreshing to be reminded of buildings that are decidedly calm and assured. This is certainly the case with this special house—a house that could be fairly said to be at once unprecedented and singular while remaining utterly familiar.","published_at":"2020-08-25T11:17:05-07:00","created_at":"2020-03-30T15:57:07-07:00","vendor":"Christopher Macdonald","type":"600","tags":["architects","architecture","Architecture \u0026 Landscape Design","books","BOOKS1","canada","canadian","in-stock","local","Made In Canada","public","stock"],"price":3200,"price_min":3200,"price_max":3200,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":33117973708937,"title":"Hardback Paper over boards","option1":"Hardback Paper over boards","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"1935935285","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Downs House II - Hardback Paper over boards","public_title":"Hardback Paper over boards","options":["Hardback Paper over boards"],"price":3200,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"1935935285","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/downs.jpg?v=1590109165"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/downs.jpg?v=1590109165","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":8641086750857,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":2100,"width":2100,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/downs.jpg?v=1590109165"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/downs.jpg?v=1590109165","width":2100}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"Downs House II presents an original and comprehensive overview of the home that local architect Barry Downs built for himself in West Vancouver. The site overlooks Howe Sound with a panorama formed by the Coastal Mountain Range of British Columbia. This house of modest proportions presents the key and formative qualities that have come to represent a West Coast Modern idiom in architecture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWith past and beam structure clad in cedar shingles, the house characteristically hovers above the rough terrain while remaining intimately engaged with its forest setting. While the dramatic panorama of the living area provides a signature moment in the experience of the house, a variety of more intimate views of the forest and granite outcrop provide a richly textured and ever-changing backdrop to domestic life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nThe house continues to be occupied by the architect and his wife Mary, and is maintained in meticulous condition. Delightful in itself, the Downs House II also offers testimony to a time of creative generosity in which the design of even modest houses served as a place of exploration. In our current era in which architectural culture commonly privileges the experience of individuality and distinction, it is refreshing to be reminded of buildings that are decidedly calm and assured. This is certainly the case with this special house—a house that could be fairly said to be at once unprecedented and singular while remaining utterly familiar."}

{"id":4770607366281,"title":"Copp House","handle":"9781939621887","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1950, a young Vancouver architectural apprentice was handed a small house project that his boss was too busy to take on. The apprentice, Ron Thom, took the simple plan and rectangular foundation that had been roughed in, and transformed it into a groundbreaking work of architecture that gained national fame. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, but using local wood and paying careful attention to its verdant oceanside setting, Thom created a landmark for the new architectural movement known as West Coast Modernism. The client, Dr. Harold Copp, was himself a trailblazer, the first head of the physiology department in the University of British Columbia’s new Faculty of Medicine and a research pioneer. Generously illustrated with both vintage and contemporary architectural photography, line drawings, and photographs of the architect and residents, The Copp House is the story of a cultural landmark on the shores of Vancouver.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-08-25T11:17:00-07:00","created_at":"2020-03-30T15:57:17-07:00","vendor":"Adele Weder","type":"600","tags":["architects","architecture","Architecture \u0026 Landscape Design","books","BOOKS1","canada","canadian","in-stock","local","Made In Canada","public","stock"],"price":3200,"price_min":3200,"price_max":3200,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":33117976363145,"title":"Hardback Cloth","option1":"Hardback Cloth","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"1939621887","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Copp House - Hardback Cloth","public_title":"Hardback Cloth","options":["Hardback Cloth"],"price":3200,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"1939621887","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/copp.jpg?v=1590109656"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/copp.jpg?v=1590109656","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":8641138786441,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":2100,"width":2100,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/copp.jpg?v=1590109656"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":2100,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0365\/7672\/3081\/products\/copp.jpg?v=1590109656","width":2100}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1950, a young Vancouver architectural apprentice was handed a small house project that his boss was too busy to take on. The apprentice, Ron Thom, took the simple plan and rectangular foundation that had been roughed in, and transformed it into a groundbreaking work of architecture that gained national fame. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, but using local wood and paying careful attention to its verdant oceanside setting, Thom created a landmark for the new architectural movement known as West Coast Modernism. The client, Dr. Harold Copp, was himself a trailblazer, the first head of the physiology department in the University of British Columbia’s new Faculty of Medicine and a research pioneer. Generously illustrated with both vintage and contemporary architectural photography, line drawings, and photographs of the architect and residents, The Copp House is the story of a cultural landmark on the shores of Vancouver.\u003c\/p\u003e"}