Proto Vernacular traces the architectural thinking of Pezo von Ellrichshausen across three interlocking bodies of work — essay, drawing, and painting — to ask what it means for architecture to reach back toward its own origins.
About This Book
Pezo von Ellrichshausen have long occupied an unusual position in contemporary architecture: deeply conceptual yet rooted in material fact, drawn to the elemental rather than the exceptional. Proto Vernacular makes that position legible. The book moves between an essay on 'first architecture', the Vernacular drawings — meticulous pencil studies of archetypal anonymous buildings — and the Proto paintings, each mode of inquiry circling the same question: what does architecture look like before authorship and convention accumulate? A closing text on living in a tool hut during the construction of LUNA, the studio principals' own home, grounds these philosophical concerns in lived experience. With an introduction by Hans Ibelings, this is a publication as considered in form as the practice it documents.
Key Features
- 336 pages of pencil drawings, paintings, photography, and philosophical essays on vernacular and archetypal architecture
- Authors Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen, with an introduction by Hans Ibelings
- Includes documentation of the LUNA project — the studio principals' own home — and a reflective text on inhabiting a tool hut during its construction
- Published by Maas Lawrence, ISBN 9789083286068
What You'll Discover
- How Pezo von Ellrichshausen use drawing and painting as instruments of architectural thought, not merely representation
- The studio's concept of 'first architecture' — the search for a pre-conventional, elemental state that underlies both anonymous building traditions and authored design
- How seclusion, material necessity, and daily life shaped the studio's architectural thinking during the construction of LUNA
- The relationship between repetition and origin in architecture — why returning to archetypal forms is an act of inquiry rather than nostalgia
About the Author
Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen are the principals of Pezo von Ellrichshausen, a studio whose practice spans architecture, painting, and drawing. Proto Vernacular brings together work across all three disciplines, reflecting their ongoing enquiry into architecture's elemental and philosophical foundations.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789083286068
- Publisher: Maas Lawrence
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, theorists, and drawing enthusiasts engaged with questions of architectural origins, vernacular traditions, and the intersection of practice with philosophical inquiry.