An edition of American Masterworks (1995)

American Masterworks

The Twentieth Century House (Universe Architecture Series)

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An edition of American Masterworks (1995)

American Masterworks

The Twentieth Century House (Universe Architecture Series)

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"This century produced such icons of modern architecture as the Greene brothers' arts-and-crafts Gamble House in Pasadena, California, of 1908; Eliel Saarinen's 1929 residence at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Michael Graves's own neoclassical villa in Princeton, New Jersey.

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.

During the 1920s, for example, Frank Lloyd Wright recovered the now-ubiquitous concrete block from what he termed the "architectural gutter," using it in several remarkable homes in Southern California, among them the Storer House in Hollywood of 1923.".

"This and twenty-one other masterpieces of American twentieth-century residential architecture are presented in this illustrated volume, a condensed edition of the bestselling book of the same name. Color photographs are accompanied by text that explores each house in depth and discusses its place 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
240

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Cover of: American masterworks
American masterworks: houses of the 20th and 21st centuries
2008, Rizzoli, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
in English - Rev. ed.
Cover of: American Masterworks
American Masterworks: The Twentieth-Century House
September 20, 2003, Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Hardcover in English
Cover of: American Masterworks
American Masterworks: The Twentieth Century House (Universe Architecture Series)
December 20, 2002, Universe Publishing
Paperback in English
Cover of: American Masterworks
American Masterworks
October 1995, Thames & Hudson Ltd
Hardcover
Cover of: American masterworks
American masterworks: the twentieth century house
1995, Rizzoli, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: The twentieth century American house
The twentieth century American house: masterworks of residential architecture
1995, Thames and Hudson
in English

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Library of Congress
NA7208 .F68 2002

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
240
Dimensions
8.1 x 6.6 x 0.8 inches
Weight
1.5 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8154284M
Internet Archive
americanmasterwo0000fram
ISBN 10
0789306719
ISBN 13
9780789306715
LCCN
2002106862
OCLC/WorldCat
51219877
Library Thing
61290

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