Binning House

(Hardback)

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A closer look at the primary influence on Canadian architectural modernism: the B.C. Binning House This book focuses on what is arguably the first significant piece of modern residential architecture in Western Canada: The BC Binning House. Still standing in West Vancouver as a National Historic Site, the house has influenced generations of architects and continues to do so until today. The structure is often thought to be the beginning of Canada's West Coast Modernism movement as it represents both the arrival of Modernist design principles and their inflection with local interests and conditions. AUTHOR: Matthew Soules is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the principal of Matthew Soules Architecture. He received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. Current research focuses on the relationship between contemporary capitalism and the built environment. Originally from California, Michael moved to Stockholm in 1989 after completing a Master of Architecture degree at the University of California Berkeley. After practicing architecture for over twelve years in San Francisco and Stockholm, he shifted directions, refocusing on the photography of architecture, interiors and works of art. He built a broad international photography practice with a focus on the Nordic countries. Michael provided all the photographs for the book Den Svenska Kakelugnen (Swedish Tiled Stoves from the Eighteenth Century), which in 2007 was nominated for the prestigious August Prize, Sweden's equivalent of the National Book Award. Michael exhibits his work and teaches internationally. His work can be seen at www.archp.com. 50 colour

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"Binning House has many commendable attributes and the short text certainly conjures up much of the enduring appeal of this house and, more broadly, the regional legacy of the modern movement in architecture, planning, and design. The format of the book, its physical form, is both appealing and attuned to the strategy of UBC SALA (School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture) /West Coast Modern House Series of studies of single houses to which it belongs." --The Ormsby Review
"In this fourth book in the West Coast Modern House Series from UBC SALA, architect and author Matthew Soules takes a phenomenological tack in his narrative on the famed BC artist and his house. Again along with Leslie Van Duzer, Sherry McKay, Christopher Macdonald, book design by Pablo Mandel and photography by Michael Perlmutter, Binning House is a wonder as a revelation of both Binning the artist as well as the archetypal house he built in 1938. With a balance of erudite text and impeccable photography--along with the sumptuous colour palette selected for the book covers--the book is also complimented this time around by a series of meticulous section drawings done by recent UBC SALA graduate Lorinc Vass." --Spacing.ca

Author Bio

Matthew Soules is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the principal of Matthew Soules Architecture. He received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. Current research focuses on the relationship between contemporary capitalism and the built environment. Originally from California, Michael moved to Stockholm in 1989 after completing a Master of Architecture degree at the University of California Berkeley. After practicing architecture for over twelve years in San Francisco and Stockholm, he shifted directions, refocusing on the photography of architecture, interiors and works of art. He built a broad international photography practice with a focus on the Nordic countries. Michael provided all the photographs for the book Den Svenska Kakelugnen (Swedish Tiled Stoves from the Eighteenth Century), which in 2007 was nominated for the prestigious August Prize, Sweden's equivalent of the National Book Award. Michael exhibits his work and teaches internationally. His work can be seen at www.archp.com.