ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT RULES. The Houses of Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard

Masello, David.

ISBN 10: 0393034917 / ISBN 13: 9780393034912

Published by W. W. Norton (1993), New York, 1993

About this Item

Quarto, cream-colored cloth with blue titles. 171 pages. Includes black and white and color photo reproductions, elevations, index. Former owner small stamp on front free endpaper, else fine. No dust jacket. 051517A.

Seller Inventory # 000017163

Bibliographic Details

• Title: ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT RULES. The Houses of Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard
• Publisher: W. W. Norton (1993), New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393034917
• ISBN 13: 9780393034912
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: first edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

About this title

Synopsis

Describes the philosophy of the two architects who worked together to create innovative, asymmetrical, and unpredictable houses designed around the needs of the homeowners

Reviews

Twenty innovative houses engendered by the collaboration between Hungarian-born Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer (1902-81) and American architect Herbert Beckhard (b. 1926) are examined in this handsome volume. Breuer (famous for the eponymous chair he designed), who emigrated to the U.S. in 1937, and Beckhard, who now heads a Manhattan-based architectural firm, favored large, open interior spaces, fieldstone walls, uninterrupted glazed surfaces and structures that "float" above their sites by means of posts, trusses and supporting walls. Despite these similarities, the houses they designed together, in California, Minnesota, New York, Vermont and Switzerland, are highly individualistic, modernist compositions reflecting their clients' lifestyles. Masello, a contributor to Architectural Record , affectionately walks readers through these eclectic, deliberately asymmetrical dwellings, aided by 100 black-and-white photographs and 16 pages in color.
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