Women and the making of the modern house : a social and architectural history / Alice T. Friedman.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2006Description: 240 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0300117892
- 9780300117899
- 728.082 22
- NA2543.W65 F75 2006
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 728.082 FRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A372200B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- No Ordinary House: Frank Lloyd Wright, Aline Barnsdall, and Hollyhock House -- Family Matters: The Schroder House Gerrit Rietveld Truus Schroder Maristella Casciato -- Being Modern Together: Le Corbusier's Villa Stein-de Monzie -- People Who Live in Glass Houses: Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson -- Southern California Modern: The Constance Perkins House / Richard Neutra -- It's a Wise Child: The Vanna Venturi House / Robert Venturi -- Conclusion: The 1980s and 1990s.
Investigating how women patrons of architecture were essential catalysts for innovation in domestic architectural design, this book explores the challenges that unconventional attitudes and ways of life presented to architectural thinking, and to the architects themselves.
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