Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses
de Smith, Elizabeth A. (editor), McCoy, Esther
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0262692139
- ISBN 13
- 9780262692137
- Librería
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Granville, New York, United States
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Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1998. First edition thus, softcover. Published Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1998, first printing. Oblong 4to. wrappers, 12" x 9 3/4", 256pp., illustrated with numerous photos, plans and scale models. "Winner of the 1999 Philip Johnson Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians. 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 Sorianothe 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." Previous owner name stamp on half title. Near fine. . 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.
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- The Wild Muse (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 008805
- Título
- Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses
- Autor
- Smith, Elizabeth A. (editor), McCoy, Esther
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edición
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0262692139
- ISBN 13
- 9780262692137
- Editorial
- The MIT Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Cambridge
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Architecture & Design;
- Size
- 4to
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