CASE STUDY HOUSES: The Complete CSH Program 1945 - 1966

Smith, Elizabeth A. T.

ISBN 10: 3822864129 / ISBN 13: 9783822864128

Editore: Taschen GmbH, Cologne, 2002

Edited by Peter Goessel. Epilogue, and photography, by Julius Shulman. Oblong folio [12.5" X 16.25" X 1.75"]. Illustrated boards. Illustrated end papers. 440 pages, with Architects' Biographies and Index. Text in English, French, and German. Illustrated throughout with b/w and color photographic images, drawings, and plans. With clear, fitted vinyl dust-cover. No names or marks. In publisher's illustrated shipping box. A crisp, as new copy, in bright dust-jacket and publisher's original cardboard shipping box. A massive book. International shipping at cost. Codice articolo 5230

Riassunto:

<div>Modernist experimental homes. Prototypes for everyone The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom. The program's chief motivating force was Arts &#38; Architecture editor John Entenza, a champion of modernism who had all the right connections to attract some of architecture's greatest talents, such as Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen. Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to re-define the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture - American and international - both during the program's existence and even to this day. TASCHEN brings you a monumental retrospective of the entire program with comprehensive documentation, brilliant photographs from the period and, for the houses still in existence, contemporary photos, as well as extensive floor plans and sketches.</div>

Informazioni sull?autore: Elizabeth A.T. Smith, conservatrice en chef du Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago depuis 1999, a été précédemment conservatrice au Museum of Contempory Art of Los Angeles. Elle a été professeur adjoint à la School of Fine Arts dans le cadre du Public Art Studies Program de l'Université de Californie du Sud. Elle a donné des conférences et abondamment publié sur toute une variété de sujets en art contemporain et en architecture.

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Titolo: CASE STUDY HOUSES: The Complete CSH Program ...
Casa editrice: Taschen GmbH, Cologne
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Hardcover
Illustratore: Shulman
Condizione: Fine
Condizione sovraccoperta: fine
Edizione: First printing.