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4 Mar 2017
GRAFT Architecture News
New Publication: GRAFT ? Home. Story. New Residential and Hospitality Architecture
GRAFT ? Home. Story. New Residential and Hospitality Architecture

On creating a home
Basel, March 2017 – Covering over 500 pages, Birkhäuser?s new book GRAFT ? Home. Story. offers a broad insight into GRAFT?s highly diverse ?four walls?, showcasing permanent and temporary dwellings from detached houses to tower blocks and ultimately mansions and luxury hotels. GRAFT?s architecture reveals a sense of insatiable curiosity and eagerness to experiment ? all the while foregrounding the unique aspects of each project and thus also the development of highly disparate spatial concepts.
?GRAFT uses architecture as a dynamic way forward and as an exploration of creativity, rather than creating finished products.? (Daniel Libeskind, foreword). The word ?home? by no means denotes a lifeless shell offering its inhabitants protection but rather a true ?home? that consistently reflects their needs and identities. GRAFT adopts this personal disposition for its concepts and designs, and the firm?s architecture is accordingly varied ? alongside amorphous and futuristic mansions in Kuala Lumpur, Home. Story. also documents clearly structured, sustainable buildings in Berlin or glassy tower blocks in Las Vegas. ...