Blueprints for Modern Living : History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses

Richard Koshalek, Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Esther McCoy, Amelia Jones, Thomas S. Hines, Helen Searing, Kevin Starr, Reyner Banham, Dolores Hayden, AdèleNaudé Santos, Craig Hodgetts, Ming Fung, Eric Owen Moss, Itsuko Hasegawa, Toyo Ito, Robert Mangurian, Charles Eames, Craig Ellwood, A. Quincy Jones, Pierre Koenig, Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano

ISBN 10: 0262692139 / ISBN 13: 9780262692137

Edité par The MIT Press Cambridge / London, MA / England 1989 / 1999, 1989

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384 pp.; 24.9 x 30.7 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 17, 1989 - February 18, 1990. Introduction by Richard Koshalek, with written contributions by Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Esther McCoy, Amelia Jones, Thomas S. Hines, Helen Searing, Kevin Starr, Reyner Banham, and Dolores Hayden. Architects and designers in the catalogue include Adèle Naudé Santos, Craig Hodgetts, Ming Fung, Eric Owen Moss, Itsuko Hasegawa, Toyo Ito, Robert Mangurian, Charles Eames, Craig Ellwood, A. Quincy Jones, Pierre Koenig, Richard Neutra, and Raphael Soriano. Includes biographies, chronology, bibliography, and index. Printed in color and black-and-white. New. As issued in publisher's shrink-wrap. Due to size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Blueprints for Modern Living : History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses
• Éditeur: The MIT Press Cambridge / London, MA / England 1989 / 1999
• Date de parution: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0262692139
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780262692137
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: 2ème Édition

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Synopsis

This book documents Arts & Architecture magazine's sponsorship of some of the most important architects of the region and the generation reflecting an unprecedented commitment to reinventing the house as a way of redefining living.

essays by Reyner Banham, Dolores Hayden, Thomas Hine, Thomas S. Hines, Esther McCoy, Helen Searing, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Kevin Starr One of Southern California's most significant contributions to modern architecture was the Case Study House program sponsored by John Entenza's Art & Architecture magazine. Between 1945 and 1966, thirty-six experimental prototypes were designed and the majority built. Featuring some of the most important architects of the region and generation—including Charles Eames, Craig Ellwood, A. Quincy Jones, Pierre Koenig, Richard Neutra, and Raphael Soriano—the program reflected the modernist goal of reinventing the house as a way of redefining living. A number of the essayists in the book suggest that what made the houses distinctive and influential was not so much their International Style modernism as how that style was domesticated and scaled to the single-family house... and how it forecast what came to be known as the California lifestyle.In addition to the eight main essays, the book, which was based on a 1989-1990 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, contains entries by the exhibition curator, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and research assistant Amelia Jones on the thirty-six Case Study projects, documentation of six projects commissioned by MOCA, biographies of the thirty architects involved in the program, and a wealth of photographs, drawings, plans, and scale models.