The Manifesto House: Buildings That Changed the Future of Architecture is the first survey of its kind — twenty-one houses that broke from convention to embody entirely new theories, from Palladio's villas to Sou Fujimoto's experiments in living.
About This Book
Most houses are shaped by accumulated norms: inherited methods, materials, economic pressures, cultural expectation. A manifesto house refuses all of that. Conceived to argue a position rather than satisfy a programme, these buildings function as three-dimensional polemics. Owen Hopkins has assembled twenty-one such houses — extreme, uncompromising, and historically consequential — tracing a thread through architectural history that has never before been surveyed as a coherent body of work. The houses span centuries and continents, connecting Andrea Palladio and Eileen Gray to Lina Bo Bardi, Harry Seidler, Anupama Kundoo, and Sou Fujimoto. Each chapter examines the ideas embedded in a specific house, the context that produced it, and its downstream influence on architectural theory and practice.
Key Features
- 240 pages of illustrated architectural history and critical analysis across twenty-one case study houses
- Houses by Andrea Palladio, Eileen Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright, Harry Seidler, Lina Bo Bardi, Anupama Kundoo, Sou Fujimoto, and others
- Published by Yale University Press
What You'll Discover
- How a single house can function as architectural argument — why the manifesto house is a distinct and recurring typology in the history of architecture
- The specific visions, theories, and social agendas embedded in each of the twenty-one houses examined, from Renaissance Italy to the contemporary moment
- The contexts — political, cultural, technological — that made each manifesto house possible and the resistance they often met
- How these extreme acts of building shaped the expectations and methods inherited by architects working today
About the Author
Owen Hopkins is an architectural writer and curator whose work focuses on the history and theory of architecture. He is the author of this first comprehensive survey of the manifesto house as a category within architectural history.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 240
- Dimensions: 254 × 190 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780300260540
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, architectural historians, and design students interested in the relationship between built form and theoretical argument, and anyone tracing the ideological currents that have shaped residential architecture across history.