LB-33: Vincent Van Duysen — Casa M documents a house on Portugal's Alentejo coast where Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen strips architecture to its irreducible elements: space, matter, light, and human scale rendered in thick, earthen walls.
About This Book
Casa M is not a house that announces itself. Set within the Alentejo coast and landscape of Portugal, it belongs to a tradition of architecture that earns its presence through material honesty rather than formal gesture. Van Duysen's approach here is tactile and deliberate — walls that are thick, textured, and earthen; spaces calibrated to the human body and attuned to the particularities of the site. This AMAG publication documents the project with the focused attention it demands, tracing how a building comes to feel inevitable, as though the land itself willed it into existence. Essential reading for those engaged with regionalist thinking, material architecture, and the poetics of restraint.
Key Features
- 64 pages of documentary photography and architectural study of Casa M
- Published by AMAG Publisher, ISBN: 9789893628409
What You'll Discover
- How Van Duysen interprets the Alentejo landscape through the physical weight and texture of earthen construction
- An architectural philosophy that returns building to its essentials — space, matter, light, and human scale — without recourse to formal rhetoric
- The relationship between site specificity and material selection, where the house reads as an extension of its coastal and rural surroundings
- A close study of how tactility and sensory presence can define a building's character as much as its plan or section
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 64
- Dimensions: 230 x 300 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789893628409
- Publisher: AMAG Publisher
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and designers drawn to material culture, regionalist practice, and the work of Vincent Van Duysen; students of Mediterranean and European residential architecture.