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The Invisible Element of Place: The Architecture of David Salmela

The Invisible Element of Place: The Architecture of David Salmela


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"Even though it's bold, it doesn't shout at you," David Salmela says of the silvery house he designed for a woodsy setting in Deephaven, Minnesota. "It's not a barking dog. It's a resting, very gentle animal." The American Institute of Architects, conferring its 2008 Housing Award, was more direct: the house was, in the words of the jury, "brilliantly designed." The Streeter house is just one of fifty-one notable projects by Minnesota architect Salmela featured in The Invisible Element of Place. Thomas Fisher explores both the beauty and the practicality of Salmela's award-winning designs-and offers insight into how an architectural firm as small and remote as Salmela's has been able to produce such consistently remarkable and internationally recognized results. Profiling such building projects as Jackson Meadow, a conservation community that has become a nationwide model; the Hawks Boot Factory, Zamzow house, and Bagley Nature Pavilion, which emphasize green building, solar power, and the use of natural light; and the Chrismer, Koch, Fiore, Roland, Ramberg, and Grams cabins, meshing clients' particular needs and the land's peculiar constraints, this book provides a rare vision of architectural design. Gorgeous images from one of the nation's most unique architectural photographers showcase how Salmela's designs work in concert with individual wishes, environmental concerns, and artistic understanding, and his breathtaking buildings reflect the Midwest's culture, history, and, ideally, its future.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Invisible Made Visible Boxes Streeter House: Father and Son Hawks Boot Factory: As Green As It Gets Chrismer Cabin: The Zen of Nature Ryan Retreat: Artist Lofts Streeter Job Site Trailer: Trailer Talk Streeter Model Home: Hybrid House Bagley Nature Pavilion: Back to Nature Krause Cabin: All in the Family Hyytinen Cabin: Finnish Fit Singleton Hill House: On Difficult Ground Frykholm/Phillips House: Raising the Bar Zamzow House: Solar Architecture Cafesjian Tower: High Light Koch Cabin: A Room with a View Gables Keel Cabin: Five Points of a New Architecture Anderson House: Wonderland Deloia House: Tracings Arvold House: Health and Home Ryan Cabin: Extended Family Johnson Hedlund House: Double Cantilever Anderson Landscape and Sauna: Out-of-Doors Holmes Prototype Cabin: Contractor-Friendly Cabin Fiore Cabin: Life's Asymmetries Jorgenson Sundquist House: Living with Less Country House: Rural Geometry Windbreaks Golob Freeman Cabin: Strangely Familiar Matthew Cabin: Client Confidence Yingst Retreat and Pavilion: The Uses of Enchantment Schifman House: Drama on the Lake Odeh House: Out of the Box Sheds Roland Cabins: Reducing Our Footprint Cotruvo House: This World So Many Have Left Johnson Cabin: Family Heirloom Grams Cabin: The Lake in Your Lap Brogan House: Up from the Ashes Taylor Whitehill Cabin: Incremental Living Nelson House: Owner Built Ramberg Cabin: Trail Blazing Clusters Clure Project: Compound Interest Salmela House: Live/Work/Play Jackson Meadow: Game Theory Goldner House: Semblance of a Whole Winton House: Scandinavian Immigrant Abstraction Model 6 and 7: Model Modesty Ireland Retreat: Irish Cream Bodin Development: Small-town Urbanity Depot Hill Equestrian Community: Well Bred Stoney Lonesome Farm: Growing Community Frances Graham Equestrian Center: Living with Horses Dorsey Creek Ranch: Fly In Awards Building Credits

About the Author :
Thomas Fisher is professor and dean at the College of Design, University of Minnesota. He is the author of Salmela Architect (Minnesota, 2005) and In the Scheme of Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture (Minnesota, 2000).Peter Bastianelli-Kerze's architectural photographs have been published in more than a dozen books as well as in numerous magazines, such as Abitare, Architecture, Architectural Record, and Architectural Review.

Review :
"For anyone who’s ever marveled at the purity and austerity of homes designed by David Salmela, The Invisible Element of Place provides a fascinating look at the work of one of Minnesota’s premier architects." -Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine "A wonderful coffee-table book for anyone who appreciates architecture-especially Salmela’s mastery of Midwestern vernacular." -Midwest Home "The book creates a rich experience for the reader, evoking the close connections between residential architecture and other, seemingly unrelated disciplines. Architect readers will  enjoy it for the poetry of Salmela’s buildings as well as the author’s intellectually omnivorous approach to covering them." -Residential Architect


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780816669943
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
  • Height: 267 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: The Architecture of David Salmela
  • ISBN-10: 0816669945
  • Publisher Date: 23 May 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 241 mm


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