"SUNLIGHT HOUSES". Las Villas Blancas
24/01/2011.
by Octavio Mestre
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
This book gathers some of the houses Octavio Mestre team have designed and built over 25 years into the profession. As the book is aimed towards a younger audience, possibly students of architecture and related disciplines, it puts as much special emphasis on the final result as it does in mental and operative processes. Congratulations!
Interior pages. Sunlight Houses by Octavio Mestre
Interior pages. Sunlight Houses by Octavio Mestre
Interior pages. Sunlight Houses by Octavio Mestre
Interior pages. Sunlight Houses by Octavio Mestre
The Montpellier School of Architecture (France), under the tutelage of Nicolas Crégut, devoted a monographic study of our single-family homes, a course we called "Sunlight Houses" and which today lends its name to this book. The title made reference to that other book by Le Corbusier (When the Cathedrals were White) and the Tom Wolfe's chapter from From Bauhaus to Our House in which he describes the arrival of the modern architects from Central Europe to America in the 40's as the arrival of the "the white gods", and he backs a color which is the very essence of the light now being threatened by those in the government who prefer to vindicate earth tones in order to "integrate architecture into a certain neo-rural context". The book has been published by the Monsa Institute Press Book house, is a monographic issue that shows the works made during 25 years of uninterrupted working progress by Octavio Mestre, architects and associates.
Octavio Mestre arch. "Sunlight Houses. Las Villas Blancas". Ed. MONSA. Barcelona, 2010. ISBN 978-84-96823-72-3.
