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Women and the making of the modern house : a social and architectural history / Alice T. Friedman.
Fine Arts Library NA2543.W65 F75 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friedman, Alice T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--United States--History--20th century.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture and women--United States--History--20th century.
- Architecture and women.
- Architects and patrons.
- Dwellings--History--20th century.
- Dwellings.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2006.
- 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.
- Contents:
- No ordinary house: Frank Lloyd Wright, Aline Barnsdall and Hollyhock House
- Family matters: The Schröder House, by Gerrit Rietveld and Truus Schröder / with 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, by Richard Neutra
- It's a wise child: The Vanna Venturi House by Robert Venturi
- Conclusion: The 1980s and 1990s.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300117892
- 9780300117899
- OCLC:
- 144595094
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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