Designed fot Ist Place & Time

摘要

At a point in his career when some architects dial back the creativity and spin off listless variations of their signa- ture designs, Obie Bowman can't stop being original. His houses defy description, although they always are inspired by the land. One house in Northern California rises out of a meadow, a sinewy inflection carved into the ground under a sod roof that seamlessly merges with the native grasses. You can't tell if you're walking on the meadow or on the home. For another house on the Oregon coast, Bowman found inspira- tion in a tangle of logs washed into a nearby rocky cove after a storm. That house is embraced by triangular log bents, buttressing the structure against the prevailing winds that rake the coast.