Title & Author:

Blueprints for modern living : history and legacy of the case study houses / exhibition organized by Elizabeth A.T. Smith ; essays by Esther McCoy [and others].

Publication:

Los Angeles : Museum of Contemporary Art ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1989.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 x 32 cm

Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... presented at the Temporary Contemporary of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 17, 1989-February 18, 1990"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (page 251).
Foreword and acknowledgments / Richard Koshalek -- Blueprints for modern living : history and legacy of the case study houses / Elizabeth A.T. Smith -- Arts & architecture case study houses / Esther McCoy -- The thirty-six case study projects / Amelia Jones and Elizabeth A.T. Smith -- Case study Trouvé : sources and precedents, Southern California, 1920-1942 / Thomas S. Hines -- Case study houses : in the grand modern tradition / Helen Searing -- The case study program and the impending future : some regional considerations / Kevin Starr -- Arts & architecture and the Los Angeles vanguard / Elizabeth A.T. Smith -- The search for the postwar house / Thomas Hine -- Klarheit, Ehrlichkeit, Einfachkeit ... and wit too! : the case study houses in the world's eyes / Reyner Banham.
Model houses for the millions : architects' dreams, builders' boasts, residents' dilemmas / Dolores Hayden -- Extending the case study concept : newly commissioned works.

ISBN:

0262192950
0262692139
9780262692137
9780262192958

Subject:

Arts & architecture.
Architecture, Domestic California, Southern Case studies Exhibitions.
International style (Architecture) California, Southern Case studies Exhibitions.
Housing, Single family California, Southern Case studies Exhibitions.
Style international (Architecture) Californie (Sud) Cas, Études de Expositions.
Maisons individuelles Californie (Sud) Cas, Études de Expositions.
Architecture domestique Californie (Sud) Études de cas Expositions.
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture California, Southern Case studies Exhibitions.
Southern California
(gnd)Entenza, John, 1903-1984
(gnd)Ausstellung
(gnd)Wohnungsbau
(gnd)Kalifornien

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Smith, Elizabeth A. T., 1958-
McCoy, Esther.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 59429
Call No.: ID:90-B869
Copy: hardcover
Status: Available