American Architects and the Single-Family Home
Title | American Architects and the Single-Family Home PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa M. Tucker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2015-07-24 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1317562224 |
American Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residential design for the better. Concepts and principles they developed related to public spaces, private spaces, and service spaces for living; details about the books they published to promote good design; as well as new essays from contemporary practitioners will inspire your own designs. More than 200 black and white images.
American Architects and the Single-Family Home
Title | American Architects and the Single-Family Home PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa M. Tucker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2015-07-24 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1317562216 |
American Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residential design for the better. Concepts and principles they developed related to public spaces, private spaces, and service spaces for living; details about the books they published to promote good design; as well as new essays from contemporary practitioners will inspire your own designs. More than 200 black and white images.
Tremaine Houses
Title | Tremaine Houses PDF eBook |
Author | Volker M. Welter |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2019-11-19 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1606066145 |
This volume analyzes the extraordinary patronage of modern architecture that the Tremaine family sustained for nearly four decades in the mid-twentieth century. From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, two brothers, Burton G. Tremaine and Warren D. Tremaine, and their respective wives, Emily Hall Tremaine and Katharine Williams Tremaine, commissioned approximately thirty architecture and design projects. Richard Neutra and Oscar Niemeyer designed the best-known Tremaine houses; Philip Johnson and Frank Lloyd Wright also created designs and buildings for the family that achieved iconic status in the modern movement. Focusing on the Tremaines’ houses and other projects, such as a visitor center at the meteor crater in Arizona, this volume explores the Tremaines’ architectural patronage in terms of the family’s motivations and values, exposing patterns in what may appear as an eclectic collection of modern architecture. Architectural historian Volker M. Welter argues that the Tremaines’ patronage was not driven by any single factor; rather, it stemmed from a network of motives comprising the clients’ practical requirements, their private and public lives, and their ideas about architecture and art.
American Houses
Title | American Houses PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald L. Foster |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 2004-03-09 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780547561523 |
American Houses is a historical guide to the architecture of the American home. While other architectural field guides show only façades, this book includes floor plans, showing how the form of a house arises from its function. Photographs and drawings of exteriors illustrate the significant field marks of each style and help pinpoint the key elements that can identify a house even when it has been remodeled beyond recognition. Beautifully illustrated, clearly written, and impeccably researched, American Houses is an essential reference for anyone interested in the history of American residential architecture.
American House Styles
Title | American House Styles PDF eBook |
Author | John Milnes Baker |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780393034219 |
How and where did different architectural styles develop?
Three American Architects
Title | Three American Architects PDF eBook |
Author | James F. O'Gorman |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 1992-09-15 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780226620725 |
''Discusses the individual and collective achievement of the three American architects.''--
Single Family Houses
Title | Single Family Houses PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Schittich |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2012-12-17 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 3034615175 |
The private single family house is still very much the preferred choice of home. Yet in recent years there have been many changes not only in the personal situations of the residents, their expectations and desires, but also in the rising costs of energy and raw materials. This has meant that issues such as multi-functionalism, the use of innovative building materials or energy-efficient building methods are increasing in significance. In this completely revised and expanded second edition these topical developments have been taken into consideration. The organisation and layout of the first volume, with its concise and detailed project documentation, has been retained. The authors introduce floor plan solutions using contemporary projects which bear in mind changing family structures. At the same time, the contributions provide an in-depth introduction to planning single family houses, from the design of the floor plan to useful tips for the realisation. In addition to this fundamental information, 22 projects are documented, providing ideas and inspiration for planners, students and clients. The international selection of projects highlights current trends in planning and designing single family housing and reveals the tried and tested basics.