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Throughout the twentieth century the United States has provided remarkably fertile ground for innovative residential architecture, from the Shingle Style pioneered on the East Coast in the late nineteenth century to the deconstructivist experiments in California today.
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. One chapter is devoted to each of 34 houses by such luminaries as Richard Neutra, Eliel Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, Charles Moore, Louis Kahn, and Frank Gehry. Selections of the architects' plans and finest freehand drawings complement the photographs in this history of exceptional American house design.
The text by Kenneth Frampton explores each house in depth, discussing its context 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.
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Domestic Architecture, Architecture, History, Architektur, Bildband, Haus, Architecture, modern, Architecture, domestic, united states, Architecture, modern, 20th century, Architecture, pictorial works, Architecture, modern, 21st centuryPlaces
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American masterworks: houses of the 20th and 21st centuries
2008, Rizzoli, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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American Masterworks: The Twentieth-Century House
September 20, 2003, Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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American Masterworks: The Twentieth Century House (Universe Architecture Series)
December 20, 2002, Universe Publishing
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American masterworks: the twentieth century house
1995, Rizzoli, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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The twentieth century American house: masterworks of residential architecture
1995, Thames and Hudson
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 300).
"A David Larkin book"--T.p. verso.
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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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