Pacific Northwest Homes

Single-family homes, urban dwellings, vacation getaways, sustainable buildings, luxury prefab designs, and plans for future homes comprise this collection of breathtaking photographs and insightful commentary that celebrates the artistic contributions of almost 50 of the finest architects, interior designers and custom builders working today in The US and Canadian Pacific Northwest. From classical to avant-garde, all of the featured homes are stylistically diverse but have a distinct timelessness about them, a tribute to the foresight of their creators' vision. The inspirations of these professionals are revealed, as is the amount of work and dedication that went into each project.

More than 250 photographs of nearly 40 leading designers in Washington and Oregon.

Loaded with hundreds of photographs of high-end custom homes, these gorgeous books are a treat for lovers of residential architecture and a resource for people planning to build their own one-of-a-kind houses. Profiles of top architects and information on local builders and suppliers provide an overview of regional styles and preferences in each locality. Featuring some of the world's most aesthetically creative and environmentally conscious residential design and construction, this gorgeous collection reflects homes with a deep reverence for their natural and cultural contexts, from coastal dwellings along the shores of Lake Washington to contemporary urban dwellings and snug mountain cottages in Oregon. With more than 30 leading pioneers of the Green movement, this informed overview spotlights architects from such firms as Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, Cutler Anderson Architects, Miller Hull Partnership, and the Green Gables design team.

Light may be both particles and waves, but rarely is it considered a material for building - it is the essence of insubstantiality, too inconstant to be relied upon, a desirable after-thought in much 20th and 21st century architecture. For architect Thomas L. Bosworth, however, it is the primum mobile, and his extraordinary, almost praeternatural understanding of light as a living thing informs his sight, his vision, and his work. In a career that began in 1960 in the office of Eero Saarinen and continues with new projects on the boards today, he has consistently used natural light to inform his architecture, to give it both shape and meaning. Building With Light in the Pacific Northwest: The Houses of Thomas Bosworth, Architect is a review of some of Bosworth's most exceptional houses. Organized by plan type, they reveal, on the one hand, the consistency of his principles - landscape, natural light, handcraft, symmetry, axiality, and memory - and, on the other, his near-infinite capacity to conceive something entirely new and fresh with each house. A teacher and scholar, as well as practicing architect, Bosworth is a classicist, strongly influenced by Greek and Roman architecture and especially powerfully by the work and writings of Palladio. His work is equally motivated by land and landscape: architecture follows site, literally and aesthetically, and every house sits on and in its particular location with a perfect sense of rightness and inevitability. ILLUSTRATIONS: 243 colour & 17 b/w photographs & 130 illustrations

Writer Ann Wall Frank and architectural photographer Michael Mathers capture the eclectic architecture and spectacular landscapes of Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, and the nearby islands. Beautiful color photographs show homes in their natural settings and highlight architectural and decorative details, showing how diverse elements--chrome and clapboard, Japanese gardens and covered bridges--come together in dazzling art. The book contains about 200 color photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Includes the Indians on the Northwest Coast, and the types of homes they lived in.