Download or read book Key Houses of the Twentieth Century written by Colin Davies and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 100 of the most significant and influential houses of the twentieth century, For each of the houses included there are numerous, accurate scale plans showing each floor, together with elevations, sections and site plans where appropriate. All of these have been specially drawn for this book and are based on the most up-to-date information and sources.
Download or read book Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century written by Hilary French and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of housing designs built over the last hundred years, illustrating innovative approaches. Fourth in the Key series, with newly drawn plans suitable for study in architecture schools, this volume will appeal to students of urban design and planning as well as architecture. Key developments covered include early apartment blocks, the projects of European modernism, high-rise and large-scale schemes, and postmodernism. Exterior and interior photographs show materials, massing, and context. 150 color photographs, 500 line drawings.
Download or read book Architecture in the Twentieth Century written by Peter Go ssel and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After several pages of prologue summing up 18th century highlights--especially the rise in importance of geometry--some forty pages cover 1784-1916, focusing on the heavily fenestrated high-rises of the Chicago School and the iron and glass pavilions of Europe. The chapter spanning 1892-1925 concentrates on the many disputes over the trajectory of modernism: Nieuwe Kunst, Stile Liberty, Jugendstil, and Art Nouveau, all arguing the direction that the boom of prisons, hospitals, schools, town halls, and other institutional buildings would take. Three more time divisions follow and a concise compendium of architect biographies ends the volume. Along with an array of great pictures (par for Taschen), Gossel and Leuthauser--both active in the private sector--add a strong prose style attentive to debates among architects and the socioeconomic stage on which architects act. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book 100 Houses 100 Years written by Twentieth Century Society and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating insight into Britain's built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth and twenty-first century. This book showcases 100 houses – one from each year from 1914 – that represent the range of architectural styles throughout the years and show how housing has adapted to suit urban life. Each house is accompanied by stunning photography and texts written by leading architectural critics and design historians, including Gavin Stamp, Elain Harwood, Barnabas Calder, Ellis Woodman and Gillian Darley. From specially commissioned architect-designed houses for individuals and for families to housing built for increased workforces, each of the 100 houses brings a different design style or historical story. There are houses built as part of garden cities, semi-detached suburban houses, housing estates, eco-houses, almshouses, converted factories and affordable post-war homes. The architectural styles encompass mock Tudor, modernist, Arts & Crafts and brutalist and the featured architects include Giles Gilbert Scott, Walter Gropius, Edwin Lutyens, Powell and Moya and David Chipperfield. The book also contains essays that explore the social and political aspects of housing design in Britain over the last 100 years, looking at the impact the World Wars had on housing, exploring domestic technology and building materials and asking how the modern house came about. Whether exploring Grayson Perry's folly-like House for Essex, Patrick Gwynne's modernist glass villa in Surrey, Sarah Wigglesworth's Straw Bale House or Simon Conder's black rubber-clad fisherman's hut in Dungeness, this book gives a glimpse into the wonderful housing in Britain and is a must-have for all fans of design history and architecture.
Download or read book 20 20 written by John Pardey and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordered chronologically, and global in scope, this book provides an account of modern architecture through the lens of twenty of the most influential houses built over the past century. By telling the stories of these houses, the book is a fascinating biography of some of the greatest modern architects. John Pardey examines the groundbreaking ideas and sensitivity to detailing and materials in houses designed by the likes of Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Giuseppe Terragni, Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, and Oscar Niemeyer--seeking to uncover the lessons they can offer for architects practicing today. 20/20 tells the story of the client, the architect, the house, and the events around the construction of each dwelling during the turbulent twentieth century. It offers a fascinating look at great architects in which revelations are found in their most intimate projects.
Download or read book Plans Sections and Elevations written by Richard Weston and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-ROM contains: files for all of the plans, sections and elevations included in the book.
Download or read book Twentieth century Classics written by Dennis Sharp and published by Phaidon Incorporated Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series that aims to place buildings within their historical context,his text considers Gropius' Dessau Bauhaus, Le Coubusier's Unite deabitation and Kahn's Salk Institute. It includes specially producedechnical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and putogether. The text explains how all three buildings are the product of greatocial vision and humanism and that by studying these pivotal buildingsogether, the approaches of three different architects to building forpecific communities can be examined.
Download or read book Twentieth century Houses written by Olivier Boissière and published by Vilo International. This book was released on 1998 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-Century Houses presents the most significant examples of 20th century styles of the aesthetic choices made to accommodate changing lifestyles.
Download or read book American Masterworks written by Kenneth Frampton and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning volume presents America's finest masterpieces of modern residential architecture, featuring 34 houses by such luminaries as Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Michael Graves. Frampton explores each house in depth, discussing its place in the progression of American architecture, its role in the architect's oeuvre, and its meaning in America. 200 illustrations, 150 in color.
Download or read book Private Architecture written by Roberto Schezen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection features 30 exceptional, but very different residences,ncluding Fallingwater and Dana House by Frank Lloyd Wright; Hill House byharles Rennie Macintosh; Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier; Villa Mairea by Alvaralto; Villa Karma by Adolf Loos; and the Rachofsky House by Richard Meier.ach profile includes numerous photos of interior
Download or read book Architecture in the 20th Century written by Peter Gössel and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Must-Have Architectural Manual A century of great buildings and their creators From Frank Lloyd Wright to Antoni Gaud , Frank O. Gehry to Shigeru Ban and all the best stuff in between, it's all here. This essential guide celebrates 100 years of architecture's finest, gathering large-format photos, drawings, and floor plans alongside a chronological overview to take you to the heart of the ideas, trends, and transitions that defined the 20th century.
Download or read book 100 written by Gennaro Postiglione and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2004 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present publication includes the work done by the MEAM Net research group at the Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with 27 institutions Europe-wide. This work, titled "One hundred houses for one hundred European architects of the 20th century", bore fruit in a travelling exhibition and a website"
Download or read book Collecting Houses written by Anne W.Baker and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Houses is a story about houses their cellars, attics, and everything in between. It's about houses the author has moved, dismantled, reclaimed, recorded. It's about houses Baker found hidden in the woods, houses she rescued from ignorance, greed or bureaucracy, and houses she discovered masquerading behind all sorts of disguises. It's about how a house feels to be, abandoned, condemned, moved, tinkered with, ripped apart, modernized, put on The National Registry or sent to Alaska. These are not just any houses, but very old ones, old for this country anyway. Not that Baker feels that our later houses aren´t interesting, but what she loves the most is the freshness of the very beginning: the distinctive, intangible quality that surrounds 17th and early 18th century houses. And that´s where she became rooted. Rooted in the adventure, the thrill of discovery and the tantalizing mysteries that reside behind the walls of our early American structures. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always instructive, Collecting Houses teaches the reader how to know an old house, how to hear its voice, how to understand its language, recognize its personalities and take care of its needs. In writing this book Baker has drawn upon 50 years experience with more than 200 antique structures in Rhode Island, southern Massachusetts and eastern Connecticut. As a restoration contractor, building archeologist, and consultant she has worked with building owners, agencies, architectural historians and State Historical Commissions. Included in this 232-page book are 77 graphics, an appendix, a glossary of building terms, and a bibliography. Collecting Houses will appeal to historians, architects, archeologists, carpenters, builders, restorers and preservationists. It will also delight anyone who wants to understand an old house or who enjoys reading about somebody else´s passion. Baker lives in Westport, Massachusetts. Book Reviews Anne Baker´s magnificent memoir tells of an intense love: it chronicles her growing passion for old houses and for the stories they can tell--if one listens to them, touches them. Baker trespasses to get close to houses; she buys honey from their owners if only to cajole them not to burn their seventeenth century paneling as firewood. She feverishly documents houses as they are about to vanish. She moves them, from New England to Alaska, if necessary. She moves about New England, never lonely, as a cloud of plaster-dust, and skin-scrapes. As this love affair began, her first, long-suffering, husband, and father of her first five children, grumbled: "Those are not the hands of a wife." But Baker was lost already, in keenly reimagining how generation upon generation of artisans worked their traditions, and adapted their styles to weather, colder than the West of England, or Wales, where the first New England carpenters came from. Baker´s memoir is not only a love story but an extraordinarily clear and beautiful account of the essentials of early New England architecture. Grace Dane Mazur, author of Trespass We Americans are reckless with our past. What we should preserve we discard. What we should protect we destroy. What we should remember we forget. In this marvelous account of her life´s work as a rescuer of early colonial structures in Southeastern Massachusetts and coastal Rhode Island, Anne W. Baker takes the measure of our losses--and celebrates those rare instances when a threatened treasure is saved for future generations. Her book is outspoken, sometimes hilarious, too often heartbreaking, and always instructive and entertaining. It is history at its liveliest and best. Llewellyn Howland III, bookseller and historian.
Download or read book One Hundred Houses for One Hundred Architects written by Gennaro Postiglione and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest challenge in designing homes is negotiating the delicate balance between aesthetics and the personal desires of the occupants. While it`s important for the structure to reflect the vision and style of the architect, the client must ultimately feel at home beneath the roof. It is particularly interesting, therefore, to examine the homes that architects create for themselves. If houses reflect their owners` personalities, then architects` own homes are like autobiographies. Location, layout, style, lighting, artwork, furnishings--every detail adds color to the story. Each of these 100 dwellings, presented A-Z by architect, speaks more about its designer than any other building possibly could.
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Download or read book 100 20th Century Houses written by Twentieth Century Society and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of Britain's diverse housing styles throughout the twentieth century and beyond. This illuminating book is a fascinating insight into Britain's built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth century. Redesigned and updated in a brand-new edition, it showcases 100 houses, from throughout the 20th century and stretching into the 21st, that represent the range of architectural styles throughout the years and show how housing has adapted to suit urban life. Each house is accompanied by stunning photography and texts written by leading architectural critics and design historians, including Gavin Stamp, Elain Harwood, Barnabas Calder, Alan Powers and Gillian Darley. From specially commissioned architect-designed houses for private individuals to housing built for increased workforces, each of the 100 houses brings a different design style or historical story. There are houses built as part of garden cities, semi-detached suburban dwellings, housing estates, eco-houses, almshouses, converted factories and affordable post-war homes. Architectural styles encompass mock Tudor, modernist, Arts and Crafts and brutalism, and featured architects include Giles Gilbert Scott, Walter Gropius, Edwin Lutyens, Powell and Moya and David Chipperfield. The book also contains essays that explore the social and political aspects of housing design in Britain over the last 100 years, looking at the impact the world wars had on housing, exploring domestic technology and building materials and discovering how the modern house came about. This compelling book gives a glimpse into the wonderful housing Britain has to offer and is a must-have for all fans of design history and architecture.
Download or read book America s Favorite Homes written by Robert Schweitzer and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first four decades of the twentieth century, prefabricated and catalogue homes grew in popularity and number. Built and occupied by farmers, merchants, the new armies of factory workers and other lower- and middle-class families, these are the modest homes that today line American streets. Using mail-order house catalogues from the time, Robert Schweitzer and Michael W. R. Davis chart the development of catalogue houses and their variations and include floor plans for many models. Students of architecture, whether amateur of professional, preservationists and academics will find in America's Favorite Homes a handy reference to those homes that soon will be eligible for historic designation.
