The Architecture of Point William

A Laboratory for Living

Author Kenneth Frampton Michael Webb
Publisher ORO Editions Publishers
Place of publication San Francisco
Year 2020
Number of pages 256
Typologies Housing House

Books

The Architecture of Point William

A Laboratory for Living

01/05/2021

The rate at which globalization advances may have accustomed us to the contrary, but architecture requires time: time to be conceived, time to be built, time to be inhabited. Normally these times follow one another, consecutively, but sometimes they overlap, creatively, and end up confused. A case is Point William, a dwelling on the Canadian Shield in Labrador, surrounded by woods and water, which has been in the making and remaking thanks to a project of the local office Shim-Sutcliffe. Put together by Kenneth Frampton and Michael Webb and illustrated with photos by Ed Burtynsky, this book examines the different times of a house that wants to remain a work in progress.