Buildings and Living Things: Garden House documents Baracco+Wright Architects' Garden House through Rory Gardiner's photography, tracing how a single modest structure becomes a site of active ecological repair and cohabitation between building and landscape.
About This Book
Conceived as little more than a tent — a deck and raised platform beneath a transparent shed — the Garden House resists the impulse to dominate its site. Flood waters move through unimpeded; indigenous vegetation has begun to grow inside; terrestrial orchids and lilies persist at the natural ground line. This monograph, combining Rory Gardiner's photography with architectural reflection, articulates Baracco+Wright's conviction that buildings must engage in environmental repair rather than erasure. It is essential reading for architects and designers grappling with ecological thinking, landscape architecture, and the relationship between the built and natural environment.
Key Features
- 78 pages of architectural photography by Rory Gardiner alongside reflective text
- Authors: Louise Wright and Mauro Baracco
- Photography: Rory Gardiner
- Published by Actar, ISBN 9781948765800
What You'll Discover
- How the Garden House treats transparency and lightness of structure as an ecological position, not merely a formal one
- Baracco+Wright's approach to the interior perimeter as garden space, maintaining the natural ground line and soil continuity throughout
- The role of seasonal flooding and indigenous vegetation in shaping the building's inhabitation over time
- A practice philosophy in which architectural thinking extends beyond the individual building to the broader discourse of environmental systems
About the Author
Louise Wright and Mauro Baracco are the principals of Baracco+Wright Architects. The practice approaches all projects with equal attention to parts and whole, to the conditions of individual sites and to the wider discourse of Architecture, with a sustained focus on ecological repair.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover with dust jacket
- Pages: 78
- Dimensions: 288 x 240 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781948765800
- Publisher: Actar
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and designers engaged with ecological practice, landscape architecture students, and anyone interested in how built form can participate in environmental repair rather than resist it.