Häuser (4/04)

Article number 10159791

This 2004 issue of Häuser presents an international selection of distinctive houses, renovations, interiors and gardens. “Once in a Lifetime” follows the renovation of a country house in Gascony, while “Do-it-yourself Dreams” examines an individual conversion project in the Italian Marche. “Shacking up à la Provençale” shows how two old structures were transformed into a simple holiday home, and “Recycling de Luxe” presents disused containers converted into an attractive Los Angeles residence. Architect Christian Frei’s sculptural house in Aarau, Switzerland, is featured in “Towering over the View”. Other architectural projects include the integration of a new building into an established Cologne neighbourhood and an unusually long villa near Bruges whose proportions are visually manipulated through architectural design. The issue also features artist Oliver Boberg and his deceptively realistic miniature urban environments, an Art Nouveau villa whose historic garden is combined with a modern swimming pool, and an article on Geoffrey Bawa, one of the leading figures of tropical modernism. A richly illustrated architectural magazine covering innovative residential design, renovation, adaptive reuse, interiors, landscape architecture and significant figures in international architecture.