{"product_id":"gabriel-poole-the-light-house","title":"Gabriel Poole Houses: Poetry in Construction","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eGabriel Poole Houses: Poetry in Construction \u003c\/i\u003eis a celebration of the life and work of one of Australia’s most inventive and unfettered architectural talents. Poole’s career began in the 1960s and spanned over half a century. While his work resonated with the cultural, environmental and creative concerns of the time, his lightweight, adaptive, and open approach to material use and structural innovation remains highly contemporary and relevant to architectural practice today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe drew deeply from vernacular traditions, yet reinterpreted the classic Queenslander house, with an intense focus on lightweight structures and generous spatial strategies. This book brings together a selection of his most innovative houses that are both timely and timeless, embracing permeability and adapting form to climate needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of his work is sited within sensitive sub-tropical ecosystems and as such responds with low-impact strategies: elevated structures, prefabricated elements and minimal ground disturbance. Projects such as Tent House and Gloster House are exemplary with each exploring the intersection of enclosure and openness, structure and space, and the careful integration of building and landscape. His inventive use of common, off-the-shelf materials like canvas, polycarbonate, and roller-doors combines affordability, environmental efficiency and flexibility. His work was that of a bricoleur — resourceful, improvisational, and responsive to material and contextual constraints. In today’s world of carbon intensity and spatial excess, it is refreshing to see how Poole valued porosity and lightness, adaptability and simplicity. This is work to inspire today’s architects to find delight in the ethical and efficient use of space and resources. To reimagine architecture as responsive and agile, exercising care and consideration for the fragile ecologies that many of us inhabit. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporaneous with the work of Glenn Murcutt, who has written a generous foreword for the book, this remarkable body of work demonstrates how architecture can be site-sensitive, affordable, and beautiful, challenging dominant paradigms of permanence and property.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat You’ll Discover:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003eA celebration of one of Australia’s most inventive and unfettered architectural talents, spanning a career from the 1960s to today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003eA reinterpretation of the classic Queenslander house, with an intense focus on lightweight structures and generous spatial strategies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003eLow-impact strategies for building within sensitive sub-tropical ecosystems: elevated structures, prefabricated elements and minimal ground disturbance \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003eCase studies including Tent House and Gloster House, exploring the intersection of enclosure and openness, structure and space\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003eA rich contributor list, with a foreword by Glenn Murcutt, introduction by Elizabeth Farrelly, essays by Mauro Baracco \u0026amp; Louise Wright, Elizabeth Musgrave, Haig Beck \u0026amp; Jackie Cooper, Tim Bennetton, and Bruce Walker, and reflections by Elizabeth Poole, Lindsay Clare, John Mainwaring, Alex Brown, and Peter Hyatt, edited by Andrew Mackenzie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 234pp\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280mm x 220mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781922601421\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Uro Publications, 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Uro Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46718297604321,"sku":"9781922601421","price":85.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/Poole_cover_9781922601421.jpg?v=1789444176","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/gabriel-poole-the-light-house","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}