Case Study Houses 1945-1962
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Since the popular Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit of 1989, Blueprint for Modern Living, much attention has been paid to the pioneering work done by the architects of the Case Study Program. Sponsored by John Entenza's Art & Architectue Magazine, the Case Study Houses program brought new thinking, techniques, and materials to post-war California house building. Contains(...)
Case Study Houses 1945-1962
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Since the popular Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit of 1989, Blueprint for Modern Living, much attention has been paid to the pioneering work done by the architects of the Case Study Program. Sponsored by John Entenza's Art & Architectue Magazine, the Case Study Houses program brought new thinking, techniques, and materials to post-war California house building. Contains the work of Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig, Richard Neutra, William Wurster, and others.
Collective Housing
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An architectural history primer, a showcase of classic modern homes, and an inspirational design book, "Living modern" exposes the inner workings of modernist principles. Through hundreds of photographs that display modern homes by such design luminaries as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, Richard Neutra, and Le Corbusier, this book is a(...)
Residential Architecture
January 2002, San Francisco
Modern living: bringing modernism home
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An architectural history primer, a showcase of classic modern homes, and an inspirational design book, "Living modern" exposes the inner workings of modernist principles. Through hundreds of photographs that display modern homes by such design luminaries as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, Richard Neutra, and Le Corbusier, this book is a resource for those who want to learn about the movement's pinnacles, as well as anyone who wants to apply its tenets to create modern creations.
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January 2002, San Francisco
Residential Architecture
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Building for oneself has a special connotation under the conditions of migration and exile. Among the most prominent examples are the private homes of Rudolph Schindler in West Hollywood, Richard Neutra in Los Angeles, Walter Gropius in Lincoln, Massachusetts. What expression could voluntary migration or forced change of location find in these buildings? To what extent(...)
A home of one's own: Émigré architects and their houses 1920-1960
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Building for oneself has a special connotation under the conditions of migration and exile. Among the most prominent examples are the private homes of Rudolph Schindler in West Hollywood, Richard Neutra in Los Angeles, Walter Gropius in Lincoln, Massachusetts. What expression could voluntary migration or forced change of location find in these buildings? To what extent do the architects’ other buildings differ from such 'homes of one’s own' in a foreign country, to use an expression borrowed and modified from Virginia Woolf?
Modernism
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Hunch no 3 2001
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Hunch 3 features Julius Shulman, Richard Neutra, and Henry the Dog. Live and work in Igor Kebel’s Just-in-Time Infrastructure; expect an explosion in the photos of Bas Princen; sink into 3D-City with Winy Maas and Wiel Arets; x-ray Rotterdam with Berlage students; ask Jeff Derkson why Nobody Likes You; redefine agriculture in Andrea Branzi’s Weak Urbanization; read(...)
Hunch no 3 2001
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Hunch 3 features Julius Shulman, Richard Neutra, and Henry the Dog. Live and work in Igor Kebel’s Just-in-Time Infrastructure; expect an explosion in the photos of Bas Princen; sink into 3D-City with Winy Maas and Wiel Arets; x-ray Rotterdam with Berlage students; ask Jeff Derkson why Nobody Likes You; redefine agriculture in Andrea Branzi’s Weak Urbanization; read Shiuan-Wen Chu’s latest Bad Architecture Story; get stuck in unfine spaces with Diego Barajas; and debate the Dutch non-debate with Rem Koolhaas.
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June 2001, Amsterdam
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A collection of more than 400 homes from more than 290 architects, the ''Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses'' showcases work by such icons as Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto, and Oscar Niemeyer, and more. The book is organized geographically into nine continental regions- North America, Central America, South America, Europe North, Europe South, Middle East,(...)
Atlas of mid-century modern houses
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A collection of more than 400 homes from more than 290 architects, the ''Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses'' showcases work by such icons as Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto, and Oscar Niemeyer, and more. The book is organized geographically into nine continental regions- North America, Central America, South America, Europe North, Europe South, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australasia- and includes classic mid-century modern buildings as well as lesser-known examples across the globe, proving that mid-century modernism was truly an international architectural phenomenon.
Modernism
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The Advanced School of Collective Feeling explores the advent of radical new conceptions of the body—a phenomenon known in the 1920s and ’30s as “physical culture”—and their impact on the thinking of some of modern architecture’s most influential figures. Using archival photographs, diagrams, and plans, the book reconstructs a constellation of provocative domestic(...)
The advanced school of collective feeling: inhabiting modern physical culture 1926-38
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The Advanced School of Collective Feeling explores the advent of radical new conceptions of the body—a phenomenon known in the 1920s and ’30s as “physical culture”—and their impact on the thinking of some of modern architecture’s most influential figures. Using archival photographs, diagrams, and plans, the book reconstructs a constellation of provocative domestic projects by Marcel Breuer, Charlotte Perriand, Richard Neutra, and others. This obscure chapter in the modern movement gestures towards a remarkable synthesis of the individual and the collective, a perspective that holds enormous potential for articulating an architecture of today.
Architectural Theory
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The Southern California architect Gregory Ain (1908–1988) collaborated with some of the most important figures of midcentury design, including Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, and Charles and Ray Eames, and yet remains relatively unknown. Perhaps one reason for this anonymity is that although he designed private homes for wealthy liberals, Ain was more interested in(...)
Notes from another Los Angeles: Gregory Ain and the construction of a social landscape
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The Southern California architect Gregory Ain (1908–1988) collaborated with some of the most important figures of midcentury design, including Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, and Charles and Ray Eames, and yet remains relatively unknown. Perhaps one reason for this anonymity is that although he designed private homes for wealthy liberals, Ain was more interested in finding ways to produce high-quality, low-cost houses in well-designed neighborhood settings for working-class families. This is the first book to examine the innovative housing projects that synthesized Ain's architectural and political ideals.
Architecture Monographs
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Founded during the Space Age boom of the fifties, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus showcases some of California's finest postwar architecture, ranging from spare sixties concrete structures to light, open California modernists designs and, in the new millennium, buildings that reflect that latest ideas about connecting buildings with the emerging(...)
University of California San Diego: The campus guide
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Founded during the Space Age boom of the fifties, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus showcases some of California's finest postwar architecture, ranging from spare sixties concrete structures to light, open California modernists designs and, in the new millennium, buildings that reflect that latest ideas about connecting buildings with the emerging campus community. The book presents almost ninety significant architectural works on the UCSD campus and reveals the very sources of modernist California architecture, from the influence of Richard Neutra, Frank Gehry, and the Case Study Architects in Los Angeles, to early San Diego modernist Louis Gill, and architect Louis Kahn.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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An Eames Anthology collects the writings of the American architects and designers Charles and Ray Eames. More than 120 primary-source documents and 200 illustrations highlight iconic projects such as the Case Study Houses and the molded plywood chair, as well as their work for major corporations as both designers (Herman Miller, Vitra) and consultants (IBM, Polaroid).(...)
An Eames anthology : articles, film scripts, interviews, letters, nots, speeches by Charles and Ray Eames
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An Eames Anthology collects the writings of the American architects and designers Charles and Ray Eames. More than 120 primary-source documents and 200 illustrations highlight iconic projects such as the Case Study Houses and the molded plywood chair, as well as their work for major corporations as both designers (Herman Miller, Vitra) and consultants (IBM, Polaroid). Previously unpublished materials appear alongside published writings by and about the Eameses and their work, lending new insight into their creative process. Correspondence with Richard Neutra and Eero Saarinen provides a personal glimpse into the advance of modernity in mid-century America.
Design Monographs
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In "The Architecture of Entertainment", architectural historian and author Robert Winter explain this "architecture of entertainment" - the inherent beauty and mystery of the era when historic architectural styles became adventurous escapades. Chapters cover topics such as "planning the city beautiful," "eclecticism," "housing for the masses," "gardens," "public(...)
Architecture since 1900, Americas
April 2006, Salt Lake City
The architecture of entertainment : L.A. in the twenties
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In "The Architecture of Entertainment", architectural historian and author Robert Winter explain this "architecture of entertainment" - the inherent beauty and mystery of the era when historic architectural styles became adventurous escapades. Chapters cover topics such as "planning the city beautiful," "eclecticism," "housing for the masses," "gardens," "public architecture," and more. Architects covered in this book include Bertram Goodhue; Morgan, Walls and Clements; Allison and Allison; and Parkinson and Parkinson working in public architecture; as well as Frank Lloyd Wright and Wallace Neff working in residential architecture. Also included are works of modernists Irving Gill, Alfred Loos, Richard Neutra, and others.
Architecture since 1900, Americas