Gabriel Poole: Poetry in Construction
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Author: Andrew Mackenzie (ed.)
Gabriel Poole: The Light House is a celebration of the life and workof one of Australia’s most inventive and unfettered architecturaltalents. Poole’s career began in the 1960s and spanned over half acentury. While his work resonated with the cultural, environmentaland creative concerns of the time, his lightweight, adaptive, andopen approach to material use and structural innovation remainshighly contemporary and relevant to architectural practice today.He drew deeply from vernacular traditions, yet reinterpreted theclassic Queenslander house, with an intense focus on lightweightstructures and generous spatial strategies. This book bringstogether a selection of his most innovative houses that are bothtimely and timeless, embracing permeability and adapting form toclimate needs.Much of his work is sited within sensitive sub-tropical ecosystemsand as such responds with low-impact strategies: elevatedstructures, prefabricated elements and minimal grounddisturbance. Projects such as Tent House and Gloster House areexemplary with each exploring the intersection of enclosure andopenness, structure and space, and the careful integration ofbuilding and landscape.His inventive use of common, off-the-shelf materials like canvas,polycarbonate, and roller-doors combines affordability,environmental efficiency and flexibility. His work was that ofa bricoleur — resourceful, improvisational, and responsive tomaterial and contextual constraints. In today’s world of carbonintensity and spatial excess, it is refreshing to see how Poole valued porosity and lightness, adaptability and simplicity. This is work to inspire today’s architects to find delight in the ethical and efficient use of space and resources. To reimagine architecture as responsive and agile, exercising care and consideration for the fragile ecologies that many of us inhabit.Contemporaneous with the work of Glenn Murcutt, who haswritten a generous foreword for the book, this remarkable bodyof work demonstrates how architecture can be site-sensitive,affordable, and beautiful, challenging dominant paradigms ofpermanence and property.
ISBN 9781922601421. Uro Publications. hb. 234 pages. 28 x 22 cm.
not yet published
Gabriel Poole: The Light House is a celebration of the life and workof one of Australia’s most inventive and unfettered architecturaltalents. Poole’s career began in the 1960s and spanned over half acentury. While his work resonated with the cultural, environmentaland creative concerns of the time, his lightweight, adaptive, andopen approach to material use and structural innovation remainshighly contemporary and relevant to architectural practice today.He drew deeply from vernacular traditions, yet reinterpreted theclassic Queenslander house, with an intense focus on lightweightstructures and generous spatial strategies. This book bringstogether a selection of his most innovative houses that are bothtimely and timeless, embracing permeability and adapting form toclimate needs.Much of his work is sited within sensitive sub-tropical ecosystemsand as such responds with low-impact strategies: elevatedstructures, prefabricated elements and minimal grounddisturbance. Projects such as Tent House and Gloster House areexemplary with each exploring the intersection of enclosure andopenness, structure and space, and the careful integration ofbuilding and landscape.His inventive use of common, off-the-shelf materials like canvas,polycarbonate, and roller-doors combines affordability,environmental efficiency and flexibility. His work was that ofa bricoleur — resourceful, improvisational, and responsive tomaterial and contextual constraints. In today’s world of carbonintensity and spatial excess, it is refreshing to see how Poole valued porosity and lightness, adaptability and simplicity. This is work to inspire today’s architects to find delight in the ethical and efficient use of space and resources. To reimagine architecture as responsive and agile, exercising care and consideration for the fragile ecologies that many of us inhabit.Contemporaneous with the work of Glenn Murcutt, who haswritten a generous foreword for the book, this remarkable bodyof work demonstrates how architecture can be site-sensitive,affordable, and beautiful, challenging dominant paradigms ofpermanence and property.
ISBN 9781922601421. Uro Publications. hb. 234 pages. 28 x 22 cm.
not yet published