Peter Salter ? Walmer Yard
Peter Salter, et. al.
Circa Press, July 2019

Hardcover | 11-3/4 x 10-1/4 inches | 156 pages | 140 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1911422075 | $60.00

Publisher's Description:
Peter Salter is an architect and teacher whose work has influenced several generations of students. The culmination of ten years of planning, Walmer Yard, in Notting Hill, is his first residential project in the UK and one of only a small number of buildings he has completed worldwide. Although modest in scale, the project is extraordinary in many ways. On an irregularly shaped site, Salter?s design brings four houses into a complex relationship with each other that is half formal, half familiar, interdependent, yet solitary. Similarly, the relationships between the core team members are more nuanced than in most architectural projects, since they all met at the Architectural Association in Peter?s unit, where Crispin Kelly (the client) and Fenella Collingridge (Peter?s current collaborator) were student contemporaries. This book documents the evolution of the project through the medium of Peter Salter?s pen-and-ink drawings and Hélène Binet?s remarkable photographs.dDAB Commentary: Walmer Yard comprises four houses on an irregular, L-shaped lot in London's Notting Hill neighborhood. It is most notable as one of the few built works designed by Peter Salter. I've been fortunate enough to visit a couple of his buildings, both in Japan: the Inami Woodcarving Museu...