Architecture Without Rules

Architecture Without Rules
Author: David Masello
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1993
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393313758

An armchair tour through twenty strikingly innovative houses.

Marcel Breuer, Architect

Marcel Breuer, Architect
Author: Isabelle Hyman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2001-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Drawing upon previously unpublished archival material, photographs, sketches, notes, and plans, architectural historian Hyman covers Marcel Breuer's entire career as an architect, documenting both his unbuilt and completed work. Following the introduction in which she traces the critical reception of Breuer's architecture throughout his career and in the decades after his death, she presents a biography, as well as a survey of all his buildings and projects organized by type of commission. Extensively illustrated with 325 bandw and color photographs and drawings. Oversize: 10.75x10.5". c. Book News Inc.

Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties

Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties
Author: James Ford
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 154
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780486259277

Over 300 illustrations - including sharply detailed photographs, line drawings of floor and site plans, elevations and cross-sections - depict interiors and exteriors of 62 houses exemplifying the purpose, spirit and techniques of modern architecture. A clearly written, explanatory text discusses the use of materials, family and location analysis, site costs and other factors involved in the design and construction of these homes.

Alan I W Frank House

Alan I W Frank House
Author:
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0847863689

The first book to feature this modernist masterpiece, one of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer's most important residential commissions. Offering a rare opportunity to explore the largest and most luxurious house designed by Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and Marcel Breuer, leading architect and furniture designer of the twentieth century, this beautifully designed volume celebrates the Alan I W Frank House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1939-40, the house embodies the Bauhaus "total work of art" philosophy, with Gropius and Breuer having designed every aspect of the building and its site. Illustrations including new and archival images and the architects' plans and sketches highlight an exquisite balance of proportions and colors. Accompanying essays place this house firmly within the American modernist canon just as the Bauhaus celebrates its one-hundreth anniversary in 2019.

Midcentury Houses Today

Midcentury Houses Today
Author: Lorenzo Ottaviani
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1580933858

Architects Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, Eliot Noyes, Edward Durell Stone, and others created an extraordinary collection of modern houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, in the 1940s and 1950s. The bucolic New England town—a suburb of Manhattan—became the site of fervent experimentation by some of the leading lights of the movement in the United States, the architects known as the Harvard Five, whose modern aesthetic could be traced to the Bauhaus school of design. There they promoted their core principles: simplicity, openness, and sensitivity to site and nature, and built glass, wood, steel, and fieldstone houses that established architectural modernism as the ideal of domesticity in the twentieth century. Architects Jeffrey Matz and Cristina A. Ross, photographer Michael Biondo, and graphic designer Lorenzo Ottaviani present this vanishing generation of iconic American houses as more than an issue of restoration or preservation, but as an evolving legacy that adapts to contemporary life. Selecting a representative group of sixteen houses covering the period between the 1950s and 1978, they portray each one in great detail, with floor plans, timelines, and both archival and luminous new photography—from the clean, minimalist look of the initial construction, to subsequent additions by some of the most significant architects of our time including Toshiko Mori, Roger Ferris, and Joeb Moore. Voices of the architects and builders, original owners and current occupants combine to describe how the houses are enjoyed and lived in today, and how the modernist residence is more than just a philosophy of design and construction, but also a philosophy of living.

Cape Cod Modern

Cape Cod Modern
Author: Peter McMahon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Architect-designed houses
ISBN: 9781935202165

In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. Thus began a chapter in the history of modern architecture that has never been told _until now. The area was a hotbed of intellectual currents from New York, Boston, Cambridge and the country's top schools of architecture and design. Avant-garde homes began to appear in the woods and on the dunes; by the 1970s, there were about 100 modern houses of interest here.

Breuer Houses

Breuer Houses
Author: Joachim Driller
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2000-01-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

A study of the houses designed by the Hungarian-born architect.

Breuer

Breuer
Author: Robert McCarter
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-10-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781838668167

The most comprehensive book available on master architect and designer Marcel Breuer This acclaimed book is the most comprehensive published on architect and designer Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), looking in detail at all the houses, furniture, and public buildings he designed in Europe and the United States - from his beginning at the Bauhaus through his collaboration with Walter Gropius, and the establishment of his own practice in the USA. Written by acclaimed architect and writer Robert McCarter, the first edition of this book was described as a 'serious study' (Financial Times) that would help in 'realigning Breuer's position in the canon of modern masters' (TLS). The complete monograph on the last of the first generation of Modernist architects, this is the only book that examines both his design as well as his architecture, with detailed descriptions of his work - including commercial, residential, furniture, and unrealized projects, including all of his iconic furniture (such as the Wassily and Cesca chairs) and buildings (including the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum in New York). Back in print, this new edition has a new cover featuring the former Whitney Museum, soon to become the global headquarters of Sotheby's in New York.

Breuer's Bohemia

Breuer's Bohemia
Author: James Crump
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1580935788

Breuer's Bohemia explores a vibrant period of midcentury modern design and culture as seen through the influential New England houses designed by Marcel Breuer for his circle of clients and friends. The iconic twentieth-century architect Marcel Breuer was a prolific designer of residential architecture, which is often overshadowed by his early renown as a Bauhaus furniture maker and his large-scale projects. Breuer’s Bohemia surveys the houses he designed in Connecticut and Massachusetts from the 1950s through the ’70s, many of which were commissioned by a few culturally progressive clients—chiefly Rufus and Leslie Stillman and Andrew and Jamie Gagarin—who coalesced around him into a dynamic social circle. Included in this scene were prominent cultural figures such as Alexander Calder, Arthur Miller, Francine du Plessix Gray, Philip Roth, and William Styron, and more, marking a unique intersection of postwar architecture, art, and letters. The publication of Breuer’s Bohemia coincides with the feature-length documentary of the same name by author and filmmaker James Crump, exploring Breuer’s explosive residential practice on the East Coast. Through original research and interviews, the voices of principal characters from Breuer’s circle and notable figures from the field of architecture help tell the story of Breuer’s collaborations with his friends and clients, breathing new life into the history of the rich cultural atmosphere of which they all played a vital part. Heavily illustrated with vintage and contemporary photographs as well as rarely seen archival materials, Breuer’s Bohemia is a unique glimpse of a twentieth-century milieu that produced an aesthetic, intellectual, and sometimes sybaritic community during a fertile period of American design and culture.

Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer
Author: Robert F. Gatje
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Illustrated with the author's own drawings of many of the projects, as well as with archival images and personal snapshots, Gatje draws a vivid and affecting picture of a unique architecture office, and of one of the great architects of the modern era."--BOOK JACKET.