Main entry:

Frampton, Kenneth, author, editor.

Title & Author:

American masterworks : the twentieth century house / edited by Kenneth Frampton and David Larkin ; text by Kenneth Frampton.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1995.
©1995

Description:

300 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"A David Larkin book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (page 300).
The modern American house -- From the Brown decades to the fragmented metropolis, 1869-1929 -- Survival through design: the triumph of the modern American house, 1929-1945 -- Blueprint for modern living: the American house and the Pax Americana, 1945-1965 -- Complexity and contradiction: the late-modern house, 1965-1994.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Throughout the twentieth century the United States has provided remarkably fertile ground for innovative residential architecture, from the Shingle Style pioneered on the East Coast in the late nineteenth century to the deconstructivist experiments in California today. Over the decades, American and international architects alike responded to this country's rising standard of living, rapidly expanding suburbs, and receptive often liberal clients - factors that encouraged the creative use of both unorthodox building materials and mass-produced components. 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 in this history of exceptional American house design. 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.

ISBN:

0847818942 (hc)
9780847818945 (hc)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern United States 20th century.
Architecture United States.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic
Architektur
Bildband
Haus
United States
USA
Geschichte 1869-1994

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Larkin, David, 1936- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 120822
Call No.: ID NA7208.F7; ID:95-B2151
Status: Available