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The twentieth-century American house : masterworks of residential architecture / edited by Kenneth Frampton and David Larkin ; text by Kenneth Frampton

By: Frampton, Kenneth.
Contributor(s): Larkin, David, 1936- [(j. ed.)].
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 1995Description: 300 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 29 cm.ISBN: 0500341435.Subject(s): Architecture -- United States | Architecture, Domestic -- United States | Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 728.0973
Contents:
The Modern American House. - From The Brown Decades To the Fragmented Metropolis 1869-1929. Greene and Greene: Gamble House. Rudolph Schindler: Schindler-Chase House. Frank Lloyd Wright: Storer House. Rudolph Schindler: Lovell Beach House. Richard Neutra: Lovell Health House. Eliel Saarinen: Saarinen House, Cranbrook Academy of Art. - Survival Through Design: The Triumph of The Modern American House 1929-1945. Cedric Gibbons: Dolores Del Rio House. Frank Lloyd Wright: Fallingwater. Walter Gropius: Gropius House. Frank Lloyd Wright: Sturges House. - Blueprint For Modern Living: The American House And The Pax Americana 1945-1965. Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House. Philip Johnson: Glass House. Charles and Ray Eames: Eames House, Case Study House No. 8. Craig Ellwood: Case Study House No. 16. Charles Moore, Donlyn, William Turnbull & Richard R. Whitaker: Sea Ranch Condominium. - Complexity And Contradiction: The Late-Modern House 1965-1994. Charles Gwathmey : Gwathmey Residence and Studio. Romaldo Giurgola: Dayton House. Louis Kahn: Korman House. Richard Meier: Douglas House. Paul Rudolph: Rudolph House. Peter de Breetteville: Willow Glen Houses. Peter Eisenman: Houses VI. Michael Graves: Graves House. Arquitectonica: Spear House. Frank Gehry: Gehry House. Krueck & Olson: Steel & Glass House. David Rockwood: Rockwood House. Stanley Saitowitz: De Napoli House. Jose Oubrerie and Cecily Wylde/Atelier Wylde-Oubrerie: Miller House. Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawkinson: House for a Film Producer. Mark Mack: Summers House. Antoine Predock: Fuller House. Ricardo Legorreta: Greenberg House. Steven Holl : Texas House. - Notes.
Summary: ... Masterpieces of American twentieth-century residential architecture are published collectively here for the first time, with authoritative commentary and spectacular photographs most commissioned exclusively for this project. 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. 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. - Front cover.
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The Modern American House. - From The Brown Decades To the Fragmented Metropolis 1869-1929. Greene and Greene: Gamble House. Rudolph Schindler: Schindler-Chase House. Frank Lloyd Wright: Storer House. Rudolph Schindler: Lovell Beach House. Richard Neutra: Lovell Health House. Eliel Saarinen: Saarinen House, Cranbrook Academy of Art. - Survival Through Design: The Triumph of The Modern American House 1929-1945. Cedric Gibbons: Dolores Del Rio House. Frank Lloyd Wright: Fallingwater. Walter Gropius: Gropius House. Frank Lloyd Wright: Sturges House. - Blueprint For Modern Living: The American House And The Pax Americana 1945-1965. Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House. Philip Johnson: Glass House. Charles and Ray Eames: Eames House, Case Study House No. 8. Craig Ellwood: Case Study House No. 16. Charles Moore, Donlyn, William Turnbull & Richard R. Whitaker: Sea Ranch Condominium. - Complexity And Contradiction: The Late-Modern House 1965-1994. Charles Gwathmey : Gwathmey Residence and Studio. Romaldo Giurgola: Dayton House. Louis Kahn: Korman House. Richard Meier: Douglas House. Paul Rudolph: Rudolph House. Peter de Breetteville: Willow Glen Houses. Peter Eisenman: Houses VI. Michael Graves: Graves House. Arquitectonica: Spear House. Frank Gehry: Gehry House. Krueck & Olson: Steel & Glass House. David Rockwood: Rockwood House. Stanley Saitowitz: De Napoli House. Jose Oubrerie and Cecily Wylde/Atelier Wylde-Oubrerie: Miller House. Henry Smith-Miller and Laurie Hawkinson: House for a Film Producer. Mark Mack: Summers House. Antoine Predock: Fuller House. Ricardo Legorreta: Greenberg House. Steven Holl : Texas House. - Notes.

... Masterpieces of American twentieth-century residential architecture are published collectively here for the first time, with authoritative commentary and spectacular photographs most commissioned exclusively for this project. 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. 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. - Front cover.