American Masterworks: The Twentieth-Century House

Frampton, Kenneth, and Larkin, David (Joint Editors); Frampton, Kenneth (Text by)

ISBN 10: 0847818942 / ISBN 13: 9780847818945

Edité par Rizzoli, New York, 1995

A propos de cet article

Cloth, 300 pages, illustrations, plans (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at crown. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** CONTENTS: The modern American house; From the Brown decades to the fragmented metropolis, 1869-1929; Survival through design: the triumph of the modern American house, 1929-1945; Blueprint for modern living: the American house and the Pax Americana, 1945-1965; Complexity and contradiction: the late-modern house, 1965-1994. Size: 4to.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: American Masterworks: The Twentieth-Century House
• Éditeur: Rizzoli, New York
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0847818942
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780847818945
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Architecture::Domestic
  • Architecture::History
  • XXXL: Jumbo
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES

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Synopsis

Throughout the twentieth century the United States has provided remarkably fertile ground for innovative residential architecture, from the Shingle Style pioneered on the East Coast in the late nineteenth century to the deconstructivist experiments in California today. Over the decades, American and international architects alike responded to this country's rising standard of living, rapidly expanding suburbs, and receptive often liberal clients - factors that encouraged the creative use of both unorthodox building materials and mass-produced components. One chapter is devoted to each of 34 houses by such luminaries as Richard Neutra, Eliel Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, Charles Moore, Louis Kahn, and Frank Gehry. Selections of the architects' plans and finest freehand drawings complement the photographs in this history of exceptional American house design. The text by Kenneth Frampton explores each house in depth, discussing its context in the progression of American architecture, its role in the architect's oeuvre, and its broader relationship to the history of twentieth-century American cultural and artistic movements.

À propos de l?auteur

Kenneth Frampton has authored numerous books including such Rizzoli titles as Richard Meier, Architect Vol. 3 and the three-volume Modern Architecture series, among others. He is the Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University. David Larkin is an editor and designer, whose previous Rizzoli books include Farmhouse, Barn, American Home, and The Treehouse Book.