The springboard in the pond
an intimate history of the swimming pool
by Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen
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Although others have written eloquently on the relationship of water to built form, until now no one has investigated the swimming, pool as a quintessentially modern and American space, reflecting America's infatuation with hygiene, skin, and recreation. In The Springboard in the Pond, Thomas van Leeuwen looks at a familiar hole - the domestic swimming pool - and discovers an icon indispensable to the reading of twentieth-century modernism.
At one level, the book is a rereading of modern architecture that will leave that story permanently altered. At another level, it is the story of the origin and evolution of the private swimming pool as a building type and cultural artifact. And at still another level, it is a material philosophy of water. Van Leeuwen explores the human relationship to water from a variety of viewpoints: social, religious, artistic, sexual, psychological, technical, and above all architectural.
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Swimming pools, Water and architecture, History| Edition | Availability |
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The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool (Graham Foundation / MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse)
February 28, 2000, The MIT Press
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0262720329 9780262720328
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The springboard in the pond: an intimate history of the swimming pool
1998, MIT Press
in English
0262220598 9780262220590
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-309) and index.
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