#books #architecture | The house of the infinite : Alberto Campo Baeza

The house of the infinite : Alberto Campo Baeza / introduction by Marc Dubois ; foreword by Annemie Vanbeylen ; epilogue by Alberto Campo Baeza ; poem by Alejandro Cervilla García ; completed building photography by Javier Callejas Sevilla.
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, Hong Kong : 2017.
196 p. : il.
Colección: Masterpiece.
ISBN 9781946226006
Arquitectura doméstica -- Andalucía.
Campo Baeza, Alberto, 1946-
Casas individuales -- Andalucía.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-728.3 HOU
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1864904~S1*spi

We have built the most radical house we have ever made, an infinite plane facing the infinite sea. A house facing the Atlantic Ocean, at the water's edge on a beach of Cadiz, like a piece of earthly paradise, where the Romans once lived in nearby Bolonia. We built a powerful podium in Roman travertine whose upper horizontal plane becomes the protagonist of the space. Inside the podium, underneath this platform like a temenos, is the house. Above and behind the stony platform, we have erected stone walls to protect us from the strong prevailing winds. As if it were an acropolis. A temenos where the gods descend to converse with humans and toast with Sherry on this plane on high looking out onto the infinite sea. The house of the infinite.