Escape into nature with 13 of Danish architect Mette Lange’s best projects – each designed in dialogue with the surrounding landcape, with architectural emphasis on beautiful natural materials.
Danish architect Mette Lange designs unique houses with natural materials to enhance comfort, longevity and joy. These are beautiful, unpretentious homes nestled in spectacular scenery that allow the dwellers to retreat from busy urban life.
Earth, Sky and Water presents 13 houses designed by Mette across three chapters: By the Water, In the Forest and In the Countryside. First-person project texts describe Mette’s unique practice of camping on-site at the start of each design process, and detail the thinking behind each house’s main features. Inviting photography takes readers inside these homes and draws particular attention to the choice of materials. In keeping with her socially responsible ethos, Mette has also designed schools for the children of migrant workers in India, where she spends part of each year. These projects, presented in the book alongside her own home in India, inform her practice at home in Denmark.
Mette has kept her studio small in order to remain fully involved in each project at every level. As well as a visual feast of deceptively simple Scandinavian summerhouses that will leave the reader yearning for one of their own, the book offers a blueprint for aspiring architects on how to run a small studio. Renowned architecture writer and fan of Mette’s work, Kenneth Frampton, contributes an a foreword.
Mette Lange is an architect based in Denmark and working in the distinguished tradition of Danish domestic architecture. This is her first book.