Main entry:

Ford, Katherine Morrow, 1905-1959.

Title & Author:

Quality budget houses; a treasury of 100 architect-designed houses from $5,000 to $20,000 [by] Katherine Morrow Ford and Thomas H. Creighton.

Publication:

New York, Reinhold Pub. Corp. [1954]

Description:

224 pages illustrations 27 cm

Notes:
Your Budget and Your House: How to face the facts of life about low-budget building -- The Site: How to economize on the land you buy: eight case studies -- Use of Space: How to save on the space in your house: fourteen case studies -- Expansion: How to build a house that will expand: fourteen case studies -- Structure: How to save on your construction system: fourteen case studies -- Materials and Equipment: How to save on the building products you use: fourteen case studies -- Ready-Built Houses: How to buy quality within your budget: nine case studies -- Cooperatives: How to save by building with others: ten case studies -- The Owner as a Builder: How to save through your own work: twelve case studies -- The Architect -- the Builder: How to use fully the talents of each: five case studies -- Index.

Summary:

Mid-century modern house designs from 1954, includes sketches of floor plans and photographs of interior and exterior. Includes houses by George Nakashima, Richard Neutra, Paul Rudolph, William Beckett, David Henken and others.
This book spotlights some of the more budget-conscious, lesser-known structures of the period, thus supplying a more unique perspective than similar volumes that tend to showcase the iconic residences. Eichler Alert: An Eichler home in Palo Alto by Frederick Emmons and A. Quincy Jones is profiled on three pages with cost facts, materials, 5 black and white photos, and a floor plan. Excellent vintage contemporary interior photography by Julius Shulman, Ezra Stoller, Bill Hedrick-Blessing, Joseph Molitor, Marvin Rand and others."-- from modernism101

ISBN:

027891716X
9780278917163

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Designs and plans.
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture domestique Dessins et plans.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Midcentury modern (Architecture)
Architecture, Domestic.
United States.

Form/genre:

Designs and plans.
Architectural drawings.

Added entries:

Creighton, Thomas H. (Thomas Hawk), 1904-1984, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 76513
Call No.: W4340
Status: Available