Book release “House on Earth: Recipes for Healthy Houses”

Andrew Linn, Visiting Professor of Practice at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC) along with his firm BLDUS, are releasing a book on March 18 called, “House on Earth: Recipes for Healthy Houses”.

Architecture: marking where humans seek refuge between Earth and sky; mitigating the heat of the golden Sun; mediating the tides and clouds; infused with auras reflective of formative human spirits; revealing relationships between material elements, human habitation, and the metaphysical Cosmos. Like doctors and their patients, lawyers and their clients, and chefs and their guests, architects engage with a general public that knows certain aspects of their profession personally due to the fundamental nature of the discipline. Everyone has a relationship to space, and even to spacemaking; it’s part of our common condition as humans. People are born into spaces, spend their lives in built spaces, and die in built spaces. The prototypical spaces of a civilization resonate through time, becoming some of humanity’s most cherished cultural constructions.

This book is an epicurean treatise on the culinary art of architecture: a book of recipes for healthy houses, designed for a specific region—the hills, valleys, and back alleys of Washington, DC, and the broader Mid-Atlantic. These twelve houses stand between memorials and monuments: the spaces between the stars. Like any cuisine, this set of material assemblies is born of its regional identity through its local ingredients and response to climate, yet each of these dishes can be studied for their applications and implications in other regions. All were prepared by BLDUS, a DC-based architecture practice. Make yourself at home on Earth.

Preorder the book now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Home-Earth-Recipes-Healthy-Housing/dp/1961856514