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First house : the grid, the figure and the void / Christian Bjone ; photographs by Robert Walker.
LIBRA NA712 .B54 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bjone, Christian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bauhaus--Influence.
- Architecture, American.
- Architecture, Modern--20th century.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Local Subjects:
- Bauhaus--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester : Wiley-Academy, [2002]
- Summary:
- In 1937, two of the foremost figures in Germany's celebrated school of modern design, the Bauhaus -- Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius -- fled the political turmoil of their native country and headed for the shores of America. This move was to have a profound effect on American architecture. The emigre architects began their new careers teaching at Harvard, and in this way had a direct impact on those students who were soon to become the most influential American architects of their generation. This book examines the first houses of a selection of the soon-to-be-famous Harvard architecture students of the 1930s to 1950s: Edward Larrabee Barnes. Ulrich Franzen. John Johansen. Philip Johnson. Eliot Noyes. I M Pei. Paul Rudolph. As well as presenting detailed accounts of the houses themselves, First House includes essays and interviews with the figures involved, providing a unique insight into this key moment in architecture -- the meeting point between the idealism of European modernism and the pragmatism of American culture.
- Contents:
- Part I The Bauhaus influence and Harvard's first modern architects 6
- Introduction: on the pendulum or at the fulcrum? 8
- Gropius and Breuer: opposite sides of the same coin 12
- Alchitecture at Harvald
- Essay by Walter Gropius 1937
- Gropius residence
- Robinson residence
- Interview: Robinson residence
- Stillman I residence
- Caesat Collage
- Barnes: the puzzle of post-war housing 36
- Osborn residence
- Interview. Osborn residence
- Barnes residence
- Buck residence
- Marsters residence
- Interview: Marsters residence
- Interview: Edward Lanabee Barnes
- Franzen: the hut and the machine 56
- The Notman residence
- Franzen residence
- Towers residence
- Interview: Towers residence
- Johansen: the figure within the field 70
- Essay by Johansen 1955
- Coggeshall residence
- Goodyear residence
- Interview: Goodyear residence
- SprayForm house
- Dunham residence
- Durst residence
- Bridge house
- Philip Johnson assisted by Landis Gores: two roads diverged within a wood 100
- Gores autobiography 1980
- Ash Street residence
- Glass house
- Hodgson residence
- Gores residence
- Tremaine house additions
- Wiley residence
- Noyes: the perfect student 128
- Noyes I residence
- Interview: Noyes residence
- Noyes II residence
- Bremer residence
- Hersey residence
- Bareiss residence
- Interview: Bareiss residence
- Pei: memory of a garden 150
- Pei summer house
- Farnsworth summer house
- Rudolph: the prodigal son's return 162
- Atkinson residence
- Applebee resdence
- Interview: Applebee residence
- Part II Spreading the word far and wide: the influence on other designers 176
- Stoller: photographer as modern architect 178
- Stoller residence
- Interview: Stoller residence
- Blake: writer as modern architect 188
- Pinwheel house
- Bridgehampton house
- Scully: historian as modern architect 202
- Scully residence
- Interview: Scully residence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0470845384
- OCLC:
- 49350636
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