THE EAMES HOUSES: CHARLES AND RAY EAMES RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE by Charles and Ray Eames

アメリカ人デザイナー、チャールズ&レイ・イームズ(Charles and Ray Eames)夫妻による作品集。2026年4月から5月にかけて、「ミラノ・トリエンナーレ(Triennale Milano)」で開催された展覧会「The Eames Houses」に伴い刊行された。同展は今後、世界での巡回が予定されている。 

本書は、作者の住宅建築に焦点を当てた初の包括的な一冊である。これまで未発表であった複数のプロジェクトを収録するとともに、家具、展覧会デザイン、映像制作といった広く知られる活動と建築作品を並置することで、異なる分野を横断しながら一貫したデザイン思想を明らかにする。

二者の住宅建築は、人間を中心に据えたモダニズムの実践によって特徴づけられる。その仕事には、明快な構造、利用者本位の機能性、そしてプレファブリケーション(プレハブ)の合理的な活用への深い関心が見て取れる。両者は建築を単なる造形表現としてではなく、課題解決のための手段として捉え、生活や仕事のさまざまな営みを受け止める柔軟な環境の創出を目指した。

本書では、1945年から1955年にかけて設計された全8棟の住宅を紹介する。スケッチ、図面、書簡、写真など豊富な資料を収録し、その多くが初公開となるほか、新たに制作されたダイアグラムや模型によって、設計プロセスへの理解を深める内容となっている。

The first comprehensive overview of Charles and Ray Eames’s residential architecture

The Eames Houses  is the first comprehensive overview of Charles and Ray Eames’s residential architecture. It includes several previously unpublished buildings and places the powerhouse couple’s architectural work alongside their widely known designs in furniture, exhibitions, and film, showing how they carried consistent design principles across different disciplines.

Charles (1907-1978) and Ray (1912-1988) Eames’s residential architecture is defined by their human-centered approach to modernism. Their work demonstrates a deep commitment to structural clarity, user-centered functionality, and the intelligent use of prefabrication. Rather than focusing purely on aesthetics, the Eameses approached architecture as a form of problem-solving, aiming to create flexible systems that offered a background for life and work in all its expressions.

This book presents all eight houses they designed between 1945 and 1955, featuring sketches, drawings, letters, and photographs – many of which have never been published before – alongside newly produced diagrams and models that offer further insight into their design process.

The book is organized into six chapters, one of which is entirely dedicated to Case Study House No. 8 with newly commissioned photography, together with  a wealth of materials from the archives of the Eames Office – many of which are published here for the first time.  The book further contextualizes the couple's thinking about domestic living in related fields such as furniture, toy, textile, and graphic design, anchoring the house projects within their work at large.

The book accompanies an exhibition in Milan in April 2026 that is planned to travel internationally.

by Charles and Ray Eames

REGULAR PRICE ¥13,200  (tax incl.)

ISBN: 9781837293124

hardcover
288 pages
210 x 315 mm
color, black and white
2026

published by PHAIDON

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