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Webb traveled from coast to coast, talking with 150 architects, to look for dwellings which respond creatively to the challenges of site, context and budget. He selected 41 recent examples and six modern classics ranging from a tree house in Berkeley to a cluster of wooden towers in Florida to sophisticated New York apartments. Color and vintage black-and-white photographs, plans and sections are combined with what each architect built--and why.
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Ever since Thomas Jefferson built Monticello, American architects have used their own houses as laboratories, testing new ideas and putting a fresh spin on the old. To select the best of our own era, Michel Webb traveled from coast to coast, talking with 150 architects and looking for houses and apartments that respond creatively to the challenges of site, context, and budget. He chose 41 recent examples and six modern classics. Together they demonstrate how rich is the idea of House. Pioneers like Schindler, Neutra, Wright, Gropius, Charles and Ray Eames, and Philip Johnson explored new ways of enclosing space and relating buildings to nature. They shocked their contemporaries and inspired their successors. Houses are grouped by types. Color and vintage b/w photos, plans and sections are woven together with lively descriptions of what each architect built - and why. These architectural adventures offer new ways of satisfying practical and emotional needs, and writes another chapter in the history of the American house. They demonstrate the timeless virtues of light and space, openness and privacy, fine craftsmanship and economical construction. -- Midwest Book Review
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- PublisherPreservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0891332413
- ISBN 13 9780891332411
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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