Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses
by Smith, Elizabeth A. (editor), McCoy, Esther
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- 0262692139
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- 9780262692137
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Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: MIT Press, 1999. First Paperback Edition . Soft cover. As New. Oblong 8vo. As New copy in wraps. 256 pp., Profusely illustrated with high quality b&w plates of Case Study Houses in various states of construction, drawings, floor plans, renderings, models, and archival material from the period. A definitive reference work on John Entenza & "Arts + Architecture" Magazine's historic "Case Study House" program, this undertaking on the influential post-war design competition is filled throughout with Julius Shulman's gorgeous vintage photographs. The participating architects were Richard J. Neutra, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig, Raphael Soriano, J.R. Davidson, Ralph Rapson, Whitney R. Smith, Sumner Spaulding and John Rex, Rodney A. Walker, Thornton Abell, Kemper Nomland and Kemper Nomland Jr., William Wilson Wurster and Theodore Bernardi, Buff, Straub and Hensman, Killingsworth, Brady and Smith, A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons, and Don Knorr. Fabulous reference.
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- Title
- Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses
- Author
- Smith, Elizabeth A. (editor), McCoy, Esther
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0262692139
- ISBN 13
- 9780262692137
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- Oblong 8vo
- Keywords
- ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS PLANS GENERAL DESIGN DRAFTING
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- Architecture;
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