Main entry:

Maddex, Diane.

Title & Author:

Alden B. Dow : midwestern modern / Diane Maddex.

Publication:

Midland, Mich. : Alden B. Dow Home and Studio ; New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton, ©2007.

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index.
Midwestern modern -- Composed order -- The studio -- The home -- The Dow gardens -- Facts -- The buildings of Alden B. Dow -- Patents and inventions -- Honors -- Professional and honorary memberships -- Alden B. Dow archives -- Sources -- Illustrations -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
British Library not licensed to copy 0.
A 2008 Michigan Notable Books selection

Summary:

"Alden Dow was a midwesterner by birth, but he left a legacy national in nature. Active from the early 1930s through the late 1970s, he designed some six hundred projects - often daringly modern houses and religious buildings, schools and colleges, business and civic structures, and even a new town in Texas. Dow changed the face of his hometown of Midland, Michigan, leaving it more than one hundred houses, offices and plants for The Dow Chemical Company, churches, banks, schools, and recreational structures." "Nowhere is Dow's talent more evident than in his Home and Studio in Midland, a National Historic Landmark. Alden B. Dow: Midwestern Modern tells the story of both this exceptional residence and the architect who spent a half century developing his vision of a more humane way of building."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780393732481 (alk. paper)
0393732487 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Dow, Alden B., 1904-1983.
Dow, Alden B. 1904-1983
Dow, Alden B.
Architects United States Biography.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architects.
United States.

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253466
Call No.: BIB 183250
Status: Available