ARCHITECTURE UNCOOKED
The New Zealand Holiday House Through An Architect’s Eyes
Pip Cheshire and Patrick Reynolds
Godwit - $90
Yet another big, luscious, high-end, and splendid book published by Random House under their much-admired Godwit imprint.
Architect and architectural activist, teacher and judge, and all round nice guy Pip Cheshire has written a lyrical and thoughtful text to go alongside the expert photographs taken by leading architectural photographer Patrick Reynolds as well as Cheshire’s own appealing pencil drawings. This is a book that should be in every loved holiday home in New Zealand.
This book will be in the shops this Friday, 14 November, but is being launched, appropriately at a beach barbecue tomorrow night. Sadly I am unable to attend because of a business commitment in Christchurch but I have no doubt it will be a grand launch.
The seven holiday homes featured, some definitely fitting the kiwi bach/crib definition, are largely unsophisticated places with water tanks, open blackened fireplaces, mismatched furniture, plenty of corrugated iron, tyre swings, and even instructions written on the walls. We know nothing of the owners of the featured homes.
This is not house-of-the-year territory, these are dinkum kiwi holiday homes, many quite remote on both coast and in the mountains with author & photographer's love for the landscape and these holiday homes that occupy it shining through on every page.
A special book bringing a fresh and different approach to anything I have seen before on this subject.
The New Zealand Holiday House Through An Architect’s Eyes
Pip Cheshire and Patrick Reynolds
Godwit - $90
Yet another big, luscious, high-end, and splendid book published by Random House under their much-admired Godwit imprint.
Architect and architectural activist, teacher and judge, and all round nice guy Pip Cheshire has written a lyrical and thoughtful text to go alongside the expert photographs taken by leading architectural photographer Patrick Reynolds as well as Cheshire’s own appealing pencil drawings. This is a book that should be in every loved holiday home in New Zealand.
This book will be in the shops this Friday, 14 November, but is being launched, appropriately at a beach barbecue tomorrow night. Sadly I am unable to attend because of a business commitment in Christchurch but I have no doubt it will be a grand launch.
The seven holiday homes featured, some definitely fitting the kiwi bach/crib definition, are largely unsophisticated places with water tanks, open blackened fireplaces, mismatched furniture, plenty of corrugated iron, tyre swings, and even instructions written on the walls. We know nothing of the owners of the featured homes.
This is not house-of-the-year territory, these are dinkum kiwi holiday homes, many quite remote on both coast and in the mountains with author & photographer's love for the landscape and these holiday homes that occupy it shining through on every page.
A special book bringing a fresh and different approach to anything I have seen before on this subject.
1 comment:
Just been out and bought this on your recommendation and I hasten to write and say I agree with every word you have written about it. Glorious is no exageration.
I am taking the book to our bach in the far north at Christmas where it will be a treasured addition to our modest but greatly treasured family beach place.
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