'Houses of the Sundown Sea' is the first monograph dedicated to architect Harry Gesner, depicting his thoroughly heterodox 60-year oeuvre. Photography: Juergen Nogai

洛杉矶人从两个角度重新塑造世界：无情的浪漫者或愤世嫉俗者。86岁的建筑师哈里·格斯纳的第一本专著的头衔使他坚定地加入了前一组。

今天仍在工作的格格纳(Gesner)今天仍然在工作(和冲浪)，这是现代主义的最有魅力的故事之一，它通过当代的约翰·劳特纳(JohnLautner)和米奇·穆恩尼希(MickeyMuennihr)等人的作品，静静地镶嵌了加州的杰作。

该专著的赞赏和轻微的闲聊的文本，由丽莎，德国，描绘了一个特立独行的头脑和一个彻底的非正统的60年的开篇。虽然艾布拉姆斯对这本书平淡无奇的设计本身并没有反映出盖斯纳作品的原创性，但它包括了绘画和计划，以及新的和档案化的意象，从而阐明了建筑师丰富的结构、形式和物质创造力。

在25岁开始他自己的实践之前，格格纳的建筑教育包括二战欧洲建筑的士兵“S-眼睛”的观点，在耶鲁大学审计的一个班级，他拒绝了弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特的邀请，去参观了塔利斯恩，还有一个长达一年的建筑学徒。

他的第二栋房子宣布了他的异端：用节能的、抗震的、没有抹灰的土坯砌成的砖，立面以30度的角度上升，形成有牙齿的神职人员窗户和一个悬臂式的三角形壁炉。1959年，他在西海岸的第一座A型房屋中，出现了一座黑色混凝土地板，里面镶嵌着半贵金属矿物。

Gesner的许多客户之所以找到他，是因为他可以建立在有限的预算和“不可建”的网站上，也因为这种不可能-以及景观-决定了他所建的东西。他建造的房子就像峡谷之间的一座桥，悬吊在悬崖的边缘，或者只有漏斗才能到达。它们像鱼一样缩放，或者被挪威造船厂操纵；他用油脂铅笔在12英尺长的波萨板上用油脂笔勾画了自己的波浪屋。

格斯纳的起居室和餐厅都陷了下来，他的厨房和酒吧都被抬高了，他的楼梯螺旋状上升。像他早期的游泳池、平面图、窗户和甲板一样，壁炉往往是三角形的；只有在职业生涯中期，他才“发现了圆滑”。

从上世纪70年代开始，(令人赞叹的升级的)材料的杂乱无章的组合表明，格斯纳失去了对他早期包装的大量和折中的思想的控制。尽管如此，Gesner的工作还是引出了一个问题：为什么非正统建筑没有出现并成倍增长？

Gesner in 1965 at the peak of his career, with a scroll of plans for the Scantlin house tucked under his arm and the skeleton of the house behind him

The framework of the Cooper Wave house, completed in 1959, with skeletal vaults beginning to take shape

The Cooper Wave house under construction, with Gesner at work at the tip of the vault. Before he conceived the house, Gesner spent days surfing the waves in front of the plot and contemplating the design. Finally, he says, 'I paddled out through the break, turned the board to the beach, and sketched the Wave house on the face of the board'

Gesner designed the wave-like copper roof of the house in such a way that hidden, self-attaching tabs on each shingle would fit together as tightly as fish scales, and their texture and eventual patina would have subtle seaside connotations

Gesner's proposal for a beachfront site in the Malibu Colony, 1966. Because the site was on a spit of land pointing out toward the ocean, Gesner was inspired to design a house fashioned after a boat at sea

Floor plan of the Hunt/Kime house, LA. How do you tackle the curse of a perfectly flat site?, the architect asked. 'You design a round house inside of it and use the straight exterior walls as the basic structural elements, both vertical and horizontal.' Rain water drained into a central koi pond and a swimming pool surrounding three sides of the house

In Gesner's Sandcastle house, the stucco hood above the living room fireplace acted as a touchstone for the idea of the sandcastle as house

The double-height arch in the Robert Jones house living room works with the foundation of caissons to brace the house against the incoming waves, while giving the house its seagoing aspect

In the Aliberti Eagle's Watch house, Gesner brought glass and beams together to forge connections between house and sea

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