The Twentieth Century American House

Author : Kenneth Frampton,David Larkin
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047356764

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American Masterworks by Kenneth Frampton,David Larkin Pdf

This stunning volume presents America's finest masterpieces of modern residential architecture, featuring 34 houses by such luminaries as Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Michael Graves. Frampton explores each house in depth, discussing its place in the progression of American architecture, its role in the architect's oeuvre, and its meaning in America. 200 illustrations, 150 in color.

Author : Eugene N. White,Kenneth Snowden,Price Fishback
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226093284

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Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective by Eugene N. White,Kenneth Snowden,Price Fishback Pdf

The central role of the housing market in the recent recession raised a series of questions about similar episodes throughout economic history. Were the underlying causes of housing and mortgage crises the same in earlier episodes? Has the onset and spread of crises changed over time? How have previous policy interventions either damaged or improved long-run market performance and stability? This volume begins to answer these questions, providing a much-needed context for understanding recent events by examining how historical housing and mortgage markets worked—and how they sometimes failed. Renowned economic historians Eugene N. White, Kenneth Snowden, and Price Fishback survey the foundational research on housing crises, comparing that of the 1930s to that of the early 2000s in order to authoritatively identify what contributed to each crisis. Later chapters explore notable historical experiences with mortgage securitization and the role that federal policy played in the surge in home ownership between 1940 and 1960. By providing a broad historical overview of housing and mortgage markets, the volume offers valuable new insights to inform future policy debates.

Author : Kenneth Frampton,David Larkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500341435

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The Twentieth Century American House by Kenneth Frampton,David Larkin Pdf

Presents America's masterpieces of modern residential architecture, featuring houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Eliel Saarinen, Charles Moore and Michael Graves. The houses themselves are examined and placed in the context of 20th-century American cultural and artistic movements.

Author : Jon C. Teaford
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421420387

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The Twentieth-Century American City by Jon C. Teaford Pdf

Touching on aging central cities, technoburbs, and the ongoing conflict between inner-city poverty and urban boosterism, The Twentieth-Century American City offers a broad, accessible overview of America's persistent struggle for a better city.

Author : Christopher MacGowan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405160230

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The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook by Christopher MacGowan Pdf

THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION Accessibly structured with entries on important historical contexts, central issues, key texts and the major writers, this Handbook provides an engaging overview of twentieth-century American fiction. Featured writers range from Henry James and Theodore Dreiser to contemporary figures such as Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, and Sherman Alexie, and analyses of key works include The Great Gatsby, Lolita, The Color Purple, and The Joy Luck Club, among others. Relevant contexts for these works, such as the impact of Hollywood, the expatriate scene in the 1920s, and the political unrest of the 1960s are also explored, and their importance discussed. This is a stimulating overview of twentieth-century American fiction, offering invaluable guidance and essential information for students and general readers.

Author : Steven Gdula
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781596917873

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The Warmest Room in the House by Steven Gdula Pdf

The first book that puts the hearth of the American home-its many unique challenges and innovations-in its proper place in contemporary history. Thomas Jefferson once wrote that if you really want to understand the workings of a society, you have to "look into their pots" and "eat their bread." Steven Gdula gives us a view of American culture from the most popular room in the house: the kitchen. Examining the relationship between trends and innovations in the kitchen and the cultural attitudes beyond its four walls, Gdula creates a lively portrait of the last hundred years of American domestic life. The Warmest Room in the House explores food trends and technology, kitchen design, appliances and furniture, china and flatware, cookery bookery, food lit, and much more. Gdula traces the evolution of the kitchen from the back room where the work of the home happened to its place at the center of family life and entertainment today. Filled with fun facts about food trends, from Hamburger Helper to The Moosewood Cookbook, and food personalities, from Julia Child to Rachael Ray, The Warmest Room in the House is the perfect addition to any well-rounded kitchen larder.

Author : Dominique Browning,Lucy Gilmour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 2759404706

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Living Architecture by Dominique Browning,Lucy Gilmour Pdf

When architects venture from commercial commissions to home design, there is a freedom to take more risks, often resulting in their stylistic and philosophic visions to be most fully realized. Here, former House & Garden editor-in-chief Dominique Browning presents a stunning selection of America's most innovative and iconic houses of the 20th century, as crafted by these risk-takers and envelope-pushers. When forward-thinking art collectors John and Dominique de Menil needed a new home in the 1940s, they took a chance on a then-unknown architect named Philip Johnson. While initially a controversial structure for its minimalist, International Style, the home Johnson built for them near Houston has since become one of the country's most cherished cultural icons. In more than 130 illustrations, Browning highlights architecture's best in a range of styles and eras--from James Deering's Vizcaya, his 1916 Italian Renaissance-inspired villa in Miami, to postwar marvels by Bauhaus practitioners Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Farnsworth House) and Marcel Breuer (Hooper House II), to more recent constructions, such as Marwan Al-Sayed's mirage-like House of Earth and Light in the Southwest desert. Featuring works that blur the lines between dwellings and art, Living Architecture is an excellent visual guide of cutting-edge architecture for both industry professionals and design lovers of all kinds. ILLUSTRATIONS 166 images

Author : Gregory Votolato
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719045312

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American Design in the Twentieth Century by Gregory Votolato Pdf

Author Greg Votolato presents the intricate story of how design evolved as a profession and a leisure activity. Votolato demonstrates that design in affluent American culture is as much about personalization of the material world as it is about the performance and appearance of manufactured goods. 114 illustrations.

Author : H. Perry Robinson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732681167

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The Twentieth Century American - Being a Comparative Study of the People of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by H. Perry Robinson Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Twentieth Century American - Being a Comparative Study of the People of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by H. Perry Robinson

Author : Robert Schweitzer,Michael W. R. Davis
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9780814320068

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America's Favorite Homes by Robert Schweitzer,Michael W. R. Davis Pdf

During the first four decades of the twentieth century, prefabricated and catalogue homes grew in popularity and number. Built and occupied by farmers, merchants, the new armies of factory workers and other lower- and middle-class families, these are the modest homes that today line American streets. Using mail-order house catalogues from the time, Robert Schweitzer and Michael W. R. Davis chart the development of catalogue houses and their variations and include floor plans for many models. Students of architecture, whether amateur of professional, preservationists and academics will find in America's Favorite Homes a handy reference to those homes that soon will be eligible for historic designation.

Author : Oliver Reagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Architecture, American
ISBN : LCCN:27004606

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American Architecture of the Twentieth Century by Oliver Reagan Pdf

Author : Roger Biles
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271042036

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From Tenements to the Taylor Homes by Roger Biles Pdf

Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of policy makers to restore urban community, the essays examine such topics as the war against the slums, planned suburbs for workers, the rise of government-aided and built housing during the Great Depression, the impact of post&–World War II renewal policies, and the retreat from public housing in the Nixon, Carter, and Reagan years.

Author : Mary Corbin Sies,Christopher Silver
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801851645

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Planning the Twentieth-century American City by Mary Corbin Sies,Christopher Silver Pdf

Arguing that planning in practice is far more complicated than historians usually depict, the authors examine closely the everyday social, political, economic, ideological, bureaucratic, and environmental contexts in which planning has occurred. In so doing, they redefine the nature of planning practice, expanding the range of actors and actions that we understand to have shaped urban development.

Author : Betty C. Monkman
Publisher : Abradale Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015049708632

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20th Century American Sculpture in the White House Garden by Betty C. Monkman Pdf

Is an excellent overview of 20th-century American sculpture & an intimate look at the garden that adjoins the most famous house in America.

Author : Robert F. Dalzell,Lee Baldwin Dalzell
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781466851665

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The House the Rockefellers Built by Robert F. Dalzell,Lee Baldwin Dalzell Pdf

What it was like to be as rich as Rockefeller: How a house gave shape and meaning to three generations of an iconic American family One hundred years ago America's richest man established a dynastic seat, the granite-clad Kykuit, high above the Hudson River. Though George Vanderbilt's 255-room Biltmore had recently put the American country house on the money map, John D. Rockefeller, who detested ostentation, had something simple in mind—at least until his son John Jr. and his charming wife, Abby, injected a spirit of noblesse oblige into the equation. Built to honor the senior Rockefeller, the house would also become the place above all others that anchored the family's memories. There could never be a better picture of the Rockefellers and their ambitions for the enormous fortune Senior had settled upon them. The authors take us inside the house and the family to observe a century of building and rebuilding—the ebb and flow of events and family feelings, the architecture and furnishings, the art and the gardens. A complex saga, The House the Rockefellers Built is alive with surprising twists and turns that reveal the tastes of a large family often sharply at odds with one another about the fortune the house symbolized.