Five Houses Ten Details 1st Edition by Edward Ford ISBN 1568988265 9781568988269

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ISBN 10: 1568988265

ISBN 13: 978-1568988269

Author:  Edward R. Ford 

Five Houses, Ten Details 1st Edition: Edward Ford’s forty years of practicing and teaching architecture have focused on one area: the architectural detail. Yet, despite two hugely influential books (The Details of Modern Architecture, volumes 1 and 2), numerous articles, and lectures given from Vancouver to Vienna, there are two questions Ford has, remarkably, never answered: “What is a detail?” and more importantly, “What is a good detail?” Ford is an architect as well as a writer, so it is notsurprising that rather than answering these questions in a third book, he spent six years on the design and construction of a house. Building it was not an exercise in the application of ideas about detail; it was, rather, a mechanism for answering those two simple questions.

Five Houses, Ten Details presents five designsall by Ford, all for himself, all for the same siteonly one of which was built. Each unbuilt design evolved or was abandoned for a variety of reasons.Many simply cost too much; others were based on presumptions that proved inaccurate or unproductive. All, to some degree, are present in the final design. Each of the five designs explores a different aspect of architectural detail: how it acts to connect to or disconnect from a site; how it is expressive of material; how it acts to reveal structure; how itarticulates the act of construction; and how it can be inconsistent, in a beneficial way, with the remainder of the building. Detail for Ford is not an accessory to architecture but its essence. Each design in Five Houses, Ten Details explores and articulates one aspectsite, structure, material, joinery, or furnitureat the expense of the others. Each architectural exploration leads to a larger understanding of construction and a larger understanding of how details communicate. Woven throughout with historical references and specific examples of his design process, Five Houses, Ten Details is an accessible and at times personal account of one man’s exploration of architectural detail.

 

Five Houses, Ten Details 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part 1

• Chapter 1 – The detail as abstraction: place and displacement

• Chapter 2 – House 1

• Chapter 3 – Abstraction and animation

Part 2

• Chapter 4 – The detail as material expression: material and form

• Chapter 5 – House 2

• Chapter 6 – The Free Union Country School Competition

• Chapter 7 – Sculpture, engineering, and architecture

Part 3

• Chapter 8 – The detail as structural representation: structure and weight

• Chapter 9 – House 3

• Chapter 10 – Gravity and meaning

Part 4

• Chapter 11 – The detail as joint: abstraction and joints

• Chapter 12 – House 4

• Chapter 13 – The Alpine Mountain Hut Competition

• Chapter 14 – The part and the whole

Part 5

• Chapter 15 – The detail as dissonant element: architecture and furniture

• Chapter 16 – House 5

• Chapter 17 – The Matteson Public Library Competition

• Chapter 18 – Scale and dissonance

 

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