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Women and the making of the modern house : a social and architectural history / Alice T. Friedman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2006Description: 240 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300117892
  • 9780300117899
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 728.082 22
LOC classification:
  • NA2543.W65 F75 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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