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Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses Hardcover - 1989
by Elizabeth A. Smith; Kevin Starr (With); Thomas S. Hines (With)
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- Title Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses
- Author Elizabeth A. Smith; Kevin Starr (With); Thomas S. Hines (With)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher MIT Press (MA), Cambridge, MA
- Date October 1989
- ISBN 9780262192958 / 0262192950
- Weight 3.38 lbs (1.53 kg)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89-13206
- Dewey Decimal Code 728
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Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses
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Los Angeles, CA/Cambridge, MA: Museum of Contemporary Art/MIT Press, 1989. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 256pp.incl.index; HB beige w/blk.&orange; slight rub w/ft.hinge cracked; dampstain&ripple, bttm.edge, otherwise clean,tight pgs. DJ beige w/blk.&orange; b/w photocover; slight rub w/damstain&ripple,bttm.edge. "Comprised of thirty-six experimental prototypes, the Case Study houses were designed, and the majority built, between 1945 and 1966. ... This book is published in conjuction with the exhibition "Blueprints for Modern LIving: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses," presented at the Temporary Contemporary of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 17, 1989-February 18, 1990." 384illus. isbn 0262192950 (MIT)
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Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses
by Elizabeth A. T. Smith; Esther McCoy
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Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. A crisp, clean As New hardcover copy in an As New dust jacket protected in mylar. 256 pp. Essays by Esther McCoy, Thomas S. Hines, Helen Searing, Kevin Starr, Elizabeth A. I Smith, Thomas Hine, Reyner Banham, and Dolores Hayden Southern California's Case Study houses constitute an essential chapter in the history of modern architecture in America. This book documents Arts & Architecture magazine's sponsorship of some of the most important architects of the region and the generation - Charles Eames, Craig Ellwood, A. Quincy Jones, Pierre Koenig, Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, and Eero Saarinen, among others - reflecting an unprecedented commitment to reinventing the house as a way of redefining living. The program consisted of thirty-six experimental prototypes designed, and the majority built, between 1945 and 1966. The architects and the magazine shared a commitment to experimenting with materials and techniques, rationalizing…
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