BEDMaR & SHi: 5 in Five, edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda.
At a more focused scale than The New Asia Pacific House, this book chronicles five houses (located in India, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and New Zealand) designed by Argentinian-born architect Ernesto Bedmar, founder of the Singapore-based Bedmar & Shi.
As Bedmar says in the book’s preface, each house is the product of “50 percent emotion, 50 percent thought.” Bedmar also gives a brief recount of each house and how he drew on the geographical and regional conditions of each house to interpret his process. “These five houses form part of a continuous search for ultimate origins, as well as a room encompassing nature,” he says. No part of the design process is neglected, with concept and construction all thoroughly detailed.
Oscar Riera Ojeda (ed.), Thames & Hudson, 2011, 464 pp, rrp $90.00.
