Midcentury Houses Today

preview-18
  • Midcentury Houses Today Book Detail

  • Author : Lorenzo Ottaviani
  • Release Date : 2014-10-21
  • Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
  • Genre : Architecture
  • Pages : 241
  • ISBN 13 : 1580933858
  • File Size : 86,86 MB

Midcentury Houses Today by Lorenzo Ottaviani PDF Summary

Book Description: Architects Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, Eliot Noyes, Edward Durell Stone, and others created an extraordinary collection of modern houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, in the 1940s and 1950s. The bucolic New England town—a suburb of Manhattan—became the site of fervent experimentation by some of the leading lights of the movement in the United States, the architects known as the Harvard Five, whose modern aesthetic could be traced to the Bauhaus school of design. There they promoted their core principles: simplicity, openness, and sensitivity to site and nature, and built glass, wood, steel, and fieldstone houses that established architectural modernism as the ideal of domesticity in the twentieth century. Architects Jeffrey Matz and Cristina A. Ross, photographer Michael Biondo, and graphic designer Lorenzo Ottaviani present this vanishing generation of iconic American houses as more than an issue of restoration or preservation, but as an evolving legacy that adapts to contemporary life. Selecting a representative group of sixteen houses covering the period between the 1950s and 1978, they portray each one in great detail, with floor plans, timelines, and both archival and luminous new photography—from the clean, minimalist look of the initial construction, to subsequent additions by some of the most significant architects of our time including Toshiko Mori, Roger Ferris, and Joeb Moore. Voices of the architects and builders, original owners and current occupants combine to describe how the houses are enjoyed and lived in today, and how the modernist residence is more than just a philosophy of design and construction, but also a philosophy of living.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Midcentury Houses Today books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Midcentury Houses Today

Midcentury Houses Today

File Size : 92,92 MB
Total View : 6265 Views
DOWNLOAD

Architects Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, Eliot Noyes, Edward Durell Stone, and others created an extraordinary collection of modern houses in New

Modernism Reborn

Modernism Reborn

File Size : 79,79 MB
Total View : 5052 Views
DOWNLOAD

In the first book of its kind, architectural critic Michael Webb and Esto photographer Roger Straus III examine 35 extraordinary modern houses that have been re

Modern in the Middle

Modern in the Middle

File Size : 9,9 MB
Total View : 7377 Views
DOWNLOAD

The first survey of the classic twentieth-century houses that defined American Midwestern modernism. Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century a

The Modern House Today

The Modern House Today

File Size : 26,26 MB
Total View : 8290 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Modern House Today follows on from F. R. S. Yorke's seminal book of 1934, The Modern House, and considers the impact of such influential modern practitioner

The Modernist House

The Modernist House

File Size : 83,83 MB
Total View : 1836 Views
DOWNLOAD

An accessible and affordable overview of 100 iconic Modernist houses from around the world, ranging from the early twentieth century to the present day