Breaking Good: Learning from the Practice of Charles and Ray Eames

Charles and Ray Eames have strongly influenced my architectural development, in two ways.First of all, in my approach to life and my profession: their house in the Pacific Palisades is what can be called the flag of “the liberation movement”—liberation from the slavery of rhetoric and style in architecture. A soft, almost innocent way to violate the sacred canons.Then comes the poetic aspect: the lightness of the spaces, conceived either in a physical or metaphysical way; their immateriality; the transparency of their multiple planes; their contact with nature; the textures of the materials from which they were created; their frugality and complexity—all this made with the nonchalance of great people, of those who know how to humbly accept the desanctifying idea of “temporariness” in architecture.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Teach.2019.54

Volume Editors
Richard Blythe & Johan De Walsche

ISBN
978-1-944214-23-4