Gabriel Poole: The Light House
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Author: Andrew Mackenzie (ed.)
Gabriel Poole: The Light House is a celebration of the life and work of one of Australia’s most inventive and unfettered architectural talents. Poole’s career began in the 1960s and spanned over half a century. While his work resonated with the cultural, environmental and creative concerns of the time, his lightweight, adaptive, and open approach to material use and structural innovation remains highly contemporary and relevant to architectural practice today.He drew deeply from vernacular traditions, yet reinterpreted the classic Queenslander house, with an intense focus on lightweight structures and generous spatial strategies. This book brings together a selection of his most innovative houses that are both timely and timeless, embracing permeability and adapting form to climate needs.Much of his work is sited within sensitive sub-tropical ecosystems and as such responds with low-impact strategies: elevated structures, prefabricated elements and minimal ground disturbance. Projects such as Tent House and Gloster House are exemplary with each exploring the intersection of enclosure and openness, structure and space, and the careful integration of building 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 of a bricoleur — resourceful, improvisational, and responsive to material and contextual constraints.In today’s world of carbon intensity 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 ethicaland 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 has written a generous foreword for the book, this remarkable body of work demonstrates how architecture can be site-sensitive, affordable, and beautiful, challenging dominant paradigms of permanence and property.
ISBN 9781922601421. Uro Publications. hb. 234 pages. 28 x 22 cm.
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Gabriel Poole: The Light House is a celebration of the life and work of one of Australia’s most inventive and unfettered architectural talents. Poole’s career began in the 1960s and spanned over half a century. While his work resonated with the cultural, environmental and creative concerns of the time, his lightweight, adaptive, and open approach to material use and structural innovation remains highly contemporary and relevant to architectural practice today.He drew deeply from vernacular traditions, yet reinterpreted the classic Queenslander house, with an intense focus on lightweight structures and generous spatial strategies. This book brings together a selection of his most innovative houses that are both timely and timeless, embracing permeability and adapting form to climate needs.Much of his work is sited within sensitive sub-tropical ecosystems and as such responds with low-impact strategies: elevated structures, prefabricated elements and minimal ground disturbance. Projects such as Tent House and Gloster House are exemplary with each exploring the intersection of enclosure and openness, structure and space, and the careful integration of building 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 of a bricoleur — resourceful, improvisational, and responsive to material and contextual constraints.In today’s world of carbon intensity 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 ethicaland 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 has written a generous foreword for the book, this remarkable body of work demonstrates how architecture can be site-sensitive, affordable, and beautiful, challenging dominant paradigms of permanence and property.
ISBN 9781922601421. Uro Publications. hb. 234 pages. 28 x 22 cm.
not yet published