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A dazzling reflection on the American swimming pool as an icon of modernism and a social, architectural, and psychological phenomenon.
The Springboard in the Pond, Thomas van Leeuwen looks at 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.
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- EditoreMit Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2000
- ISBN 10 0262720329
- ISBN 13 9780262720328
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine304
- RedattoreSearing Helen
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