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  Facing Southwest The Life and Houses of John Gaw Meem Architecture
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Make/Author/Artist: Chris Wilson
Details: Hard Cover

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Product Code: FCSWJGM

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Long recognized for landmark public buildings in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Colorado Springs, John Gaw Meem's name is synonymous with Santa Fe style.

This book provides the first intensive introduction to Meem's great houses - sun baked retreats that echo desert mesas and open out to vast landscape panoramas.

 It uncovers the fascinating personal odyssey that took Meem from a bi cultural childhood in Brazil to the Virginia Military Institute, to work on the design of New York City subways, to an abbreviated career in international banking in Brazil, and to a tuberculosis sanitarium in Santa Fe, where he found his life's work.

As an architect, Meem bought the Spanish-Pueblo style to maturity, created his own brand of regional classicism - the Territorial Revival - and worked to reconcile Modernism with southwestern traditions, notably in his innovative solar adobe houses.

A book filled with dazzling photographs of the southwest landscape and Meem's signature houses, FACING SOUTHWEST is both intellectual biography and design handbook. It features:
  • 18 Meem house plans
  • Sumptuous color images by Robert Reck
  • Classic black and white views by Ansel Adams and Laura Gilpin
  • A design-pattern approach that makes Meem's residential vocabulary accessible for builders, architects, prospective home builders, and aficionados of the Southwest.
 

CONDITION: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket, USED with light overall wear.  178 pages. 2001


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