《加州別墅》選取加州當地的別墅建築，以現代典型的加州別墅項目彙編成冊以饗讀者。《加州別墅》主要從設計理念、設計靈感、建築外觀等角度切入，展示純正的加州別墅，在編排中實現綜合全局，凸顯細部的操作方式，從而將加州別墅的設計精髓詳盡透徹地呈現給專業讀者。
基本介紹
- 中文名：加州別墅
- 作者：廣州市建藝文化傳播有限公司
- 語言：簡體中文
- 出版時間：2010年11月1日
- 出版社：天津大學出版社
- 頁數：223 頁
- ISBN：7561837178, 9787561837177
- 開本：16 開
內容簡介,圖書目錄,序言,
內容簡介
《加州別墅》：Patel Architecture Patel建築事務所作品
圖書目錄
鑽石豪庭
飛翔的城堡
肯特的奢華地中海
克里斯汀·史密斯的西班牙風情度假別墅
弗蘭克濱水別墅
Halum現代地中海風情
Westlund山頂別墅
Westgate高爾夫別墅
羅森巴特高爾夫大宅
阿爾塔度假村A棟別墅
阿爾塔度假村B棟別墅
阿爾塔度假村C棟別墅
阿薩姆藝術豪宅
史密斯之家
諾特拉斯神秘宮殿
硬朗的溫暖
帕特爾的達文西之門
序言
Narendra Patel grew up in the provincial town of Bharuch, a cotton-producing region of Gujarat, India. His childhood house was a row house with a tin-roof in a neighborhood of "Slumdog Millionaire". He played in the fields with his uncles, hand-sculpting mud into castles and surreal creations from the clay-like soil out of which both the cotton and the young prodigy's urge to create arose.
Patel wanted to be an artist, but his father, a grade seven teacher, urged him to meet engineers as he was finishing high school. Like men a half of a world away, half a millennium earlier in Italy, Patel realized that architecture was the perfect gestalt of three-dimensional geometry and the creative imperative.
It was while an architecture student at the University of Maharaja Sayajirao in Baroda, India [enrollment, 50,000] that the world got its first glimpse of what Patel would ultimately share with it in this early case, a jury placed one of his sculptures in a major American airport. After completing his Masters of Architecture at the University of Toronto, Patel was soon in America himself - re-starting his life, reincarnated again with the humblest settings. While his young family lived in the custodial suite of a strip motel in Palm Springs, CA, he earned a mere $9 per hour at a blue-blood architecture firm.
Since then, Patel has designed a billion dollars of commercial buildings, luxury houses, master plan communities, interior designs, landscapes, furniture and sculptures under his own brand, the Rancho Mirage, CA-based Patel Architecture. Patel's signature style —— "like sculptures that grow out of the earth," he suggested —— has attracted clients like Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, as well as national media attention from magazines like the Robb Report, which has featured two of Patel's luxury houses on its cover. In 2009, ,PGte/rece/ved the LEED Silver Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for the Henderson Community Building in Palm Desert, California, the first for an architecturally significant building in the entire Palm Springs Region.
His newest design is a 25-storey luxury hotel in Guangzhou, China that totals half-a-million square feet but leaves a carbon foot-print of next to nothing the term of art in green architecture, "net zero" means that the complex generates more than 50 percent of the energy it consumes on-site. "China hires the best professionals in the world, decides what's the best for the country and then just does it proactively," said Patel. "This is why China is more rapidly progressive than we are in the United States, which is stagnating under the inertia of procedure, lawyers and a turn-of-the-century banking system."
