Mediterranean Villages: An Architectural Journey

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A detailed guide to Mediterranean architecture. Written by architects who understand the value of travel and how it has shaped their vision of a truly important architecture.

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absolutely wonderful.......2006-07-21

I came across this book by chanch in a local public library and was tranfixed. I had to have it, so now I have!

Visual Treasure.......2005-12-10

Steven & Cathi House have captured in black & white photography and pen & ink drawings an exraordinary thirty years of travel throughout the Mediterranean.

As architects they are classically trained in drawing and photography; as artists they bring the reader their unique understanding of place and people in a poetic way. "Mediterranean Villages: an architectural journey" is filled with beautiful photos and drawings produced in a top quality hard cover edition.

This is an ideal gift for art lovers, travellers, book lovers and of course, architects. In addition to its extraordinary visuals, it is filled with quotes that keep the reader fascinated.

Mediterranean Villages: An Architectural Journey.......2005-10-19

An extreme close-up photograph of the Paraportiani Church in Mykonos is the first image we see of "Mediterranean Villages:An Architectural Journey" by Steven & Cathi House. It is an arresting photo that accents the sun-lit sides of the stone, plaster, and whitewash structure. The tone is set. Steven and Cathi, architects, lead us, gracefully, through the book, seeing the villages of the Mediterranean through their empathetic hearts and eyes. I am impressed how strongly the quality of the power of indigenous stone used in the village structures, walkways and stairways come through the pages of the book. The pen and ink drawings have a lively and rhythmical perspective. They invite me to walk the stairways-up and down and around the village and become aware of the relationships of the structures to the natural contours of the villages, and to the lives of the people living there

"Mediterranean Villages:An Architectural Journey" is a testimonial to the sensitivity and appreciation Steven and Cathi feel for architecture that is an integral part of the total environment. The book, -- an architectural journey-- is a journey of the heart and soul. There is always something new to see and understand. The excitement of their discoveries which began 30 years ago when they made their first year-long trip to the hill towns of the Mediterranean area continues to feed Steven's and Cathi's imagination and artistry as architects today.

a classic odyssey.......2005-07-13

Here is that rare book in which the authors' personal passion for their subject joins perfectly with their talents for revealing it to us. As young architects, Steven and Cathi House moved to Greece to learn more about indigenous Mediterranean architecture--and themselves. Over a series of years, their investigations of towns and cities throughout the Mediterranean--recorded in fascinating drawings, indelible black and white photographs, and text--become a record both of the unforgettable landscapes they visit and their own coming of age as architects, artists, and people. This is the sort of book you can open some evening and just wander through a Spanish village, or an Italian hill town, letting it open up to you--then pick another site another evening. Mediterranean Villages is a book that readers will keep close at hand for many years.

Unique Love Letter to the Mediterranean.......2005-06-28

This beautiful book is truly a love letter to a region of the world that these architect / life partners know intimately, and adore. And like the best of classic love letters, the mark of the writers' hands and the depth of their insights are all over this volume, page after luminous page, from cover to cover.

The authors' ardent tribute focuses on the Mediterranean's "architecture without architects." This refers to villages built by the very people who live in the houses and worship in the churches using local stone they have quarried or the earth at their feet that they have baked into bricks and then protected with homemade plaster, whitewash, or paint. Fortunately, Steven and Cathi House do not idealize the object of their passion. Instead, they lovingly reveal these rural Italian, Greek, Spanish, and Dalmatian villages--imperfections, eccentricities, hardships, abandonment, and all.

It is ironic that two formally trained architects are at the helm of a project illuminating villages that were formed so organically and without benefit of architects. Ironic, that is, until you realize that the House's "built" the book very, very slowly in their hearts and minds, over decades of time. In addition, they assembled it very much like hill towns and villages evolve.

Reaching into their respective thick travel journals and rich portfolios of images, the authors selected hundreds of gorgeous black and white photographs and pen and ink drawings to reproduce alongside personal memories. They fortified this text with scholarly research and punctuated the book throughout with quotations they collected from a wide array of famous Mediterranean observers all across the arts. With these "vernacular" materials, they inventively constructed an easy, rambling design and an elegant "coincidence" of images and text that live and breathe like the late afternoon activities of an Italian hill town community on their small piazza in early spring.

Mediterranean Villages: An Architectural Journey offers a unique perspective on an area of the world that is most often praised for its beaches, cuisine, museum treasures, or temperate weather. Simple stone and stucco façades are hereby proven to be evocative, eye opening, and inspiring, too.

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Elizabeth Conlon
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Otto Ping began taking pictures of the people and places of his native Brown County, Indiana, in 1900. Primarily a portraitist, Ping photographed individuals, couples, family groups, and larger gatherings. His portraits have a documentary quality, and one senses in the faces that peer from these images the determination with which these people met lives of toil and hardship.

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Haunting and Poignant !.......2006-12-10

This book is an honest and realistic look at how difficult life was for Midwesterns living in the early 1900's. Otto Ping was one of the first people in Southern Indiana to own a camera. My father and grandfather have always described "Uncle Ott" as fun loving and adventurous. Otto Ping had absolutely no idea how his new toy would end up leaving his legacy. The book will leave the reader with images of the past you will never be able to forget.

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*AN "HONEST REPRESENTATION" OF NATIVE HOOSIERS*.......2006-01-26

If you are someone who never gets excited about looking at other people's photo albums, this book may have little appeal - - but then, you wouldn't be reading this in this first place.

Brown County INDIANA, was slow in its transformation to become an 'electrified' county. Even when building a home in the late 1940s, electricity did not rush up our 'holler' to civilize us. Some of the pictures in this collection could have come from my album, although it may be unique ONLY for the portrait of a friend laying a fine stone foundation for the outhouse!

Douglas Hartley edited the Otto Ping collection for the Indiana Historical Society, making a thoughtful selection for this book that has become a tribute to this county native who doubtless did not realize the importance of "recording the common". Ping began taking portraits at age 17 - to earn money in those very tight times in 1900. He had a mail-order camera and printed pictures from glass-plate negatives. He recorded glimpses of people who endured ongoing hardships - including that of forever being called "backwards."

Among the last pictures shown in the book are two of outstanding cars! Also one of a baptism held in a snowy pond to show the strength of religious conviction to about thirty witnesses huddled nearby. There are also a few pictures of old and young pictured in death, a custom of the times.

Stephen Fletcher served as Indiana Historical Society's curator of visual collections. In his essay for the book he urges readers to "discover the significance that lies beyond the intent of these genuine, regardful, and considered images." Reviewer mcHAIKU will never be considered a native but is moved by the many worn but formidable faces shown in Otto Ping's portraits, and assures readers that there is much satisfaction to be gotten from studying those who carried their burdens with honesty and determination.

Shadows of the Past.......2002-12-24

Otto Ping was an early 20th century photographer, who did work while secluded in the back hills of rural Indiana. His work is noteworthy not only because of his results that are comparable to the work of the famous Dorothea Lange, but also because he was complely self taught in the art and science of the then emerging art form. He had an instictively unerring eye for images which transcend time. The photos speak directly to the modern reader, comments by the well known art historian Douglas Hartley add depth to the book. A wonderful piece of midwestern history.

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