КОД (ISBN):
978-0-500-34255-8

Книга: The Iconic House: Architectural Masterworks Since 1900

Товар № 10405221

Автор: D, Powers, Bradbury, R

Издательство: Thames&Hudson

Вес: 0.500 кг.

Год издания: 2009

Формат: 29x27x4 см

Страниц: 352

Цена: 4 854 руб.

В КОРЗИНУ

From the first stirrings of modernity in the early twentieth century to the present, the house has served as a test bed of design experimentation, the place where architects have sought to create new forms and to offer new domestic lifestyles. Alvar Aalto, Buckminster Fuller, Rudolph Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, Eileen Gray, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Gwathmey, Carlo Scarpa, Herzog & de Meuron: most great architects of the past hundred years have begun or catalyzed their careers with an iconic house. The introduction looks at the historical and social motivations behind epoch-making residential architecture, showing in sidebars twenty of the most important early examples. Then eighty houses - sixty of which have been specially photographed - are presented chronologically. The text describes the all-important relationship between architecture and client, the physical context in which the house is set, and the pivotal role the house played in the development of...