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Midcentury houses today : New Canaan, Connecticut / Cristina A. Ross, Lorenzo Ottaviani, Jeffrey Matz ; Michael Biondo, photography ; John Morris Dixon, introduction.
Fine Arts Library NA7238.N36 R67 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ross, Cristina A., author.
- Matz, Jeffrey, author.
- Ottaviani, Lorenzo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--Connecticut--New Canaan.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture, Domestic--Connecticut--New Canaan--Pictorial works.
- Architecture, Domestic--Connecticut--New Canaan--Designs and plans.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), plans ; 27 x 27 cm.
- Edition:
- Expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Monacelli Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Traces the evolution of midcentury houses and demonstrates how they are experienced and lived in today. This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservation and adaptive reuse as a sustainable architectural strategy.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781580936101
- 1580936105
- OCLC:
- 1430342565
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