Women and the Making of the Modern House
aIf you want a book about architecture which is informative, provocative, offers new paradigms on the way we describe architecture, is both soundly academic, and as compelling to read as a good novel, look no further.a aKester Ratenbury In this groundbreaking book, Alice T. Friedman investigates how women patrons of architecture were essential catalysts for innovation in domestic architectural design. By looking at such iconic houses as Hollyhock House (Frank Lloyd Wright), the Truus SchrApder House (Gerrit Rietveld), the Edith Farnsworth House (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe), the Constance Perkins House (Richard Neutra), and the Vanna Venturi House (Robert Venturi), she explores the challenges that unconventional attitudes and ways of life presented to architectural thinkingaand to the architects themselves. Detailed portraitsafashioned from personal letters, diaries, office records, photo albums, and interviewsaof the clients and architects reveal the private passions and struggles that women and men of talent and creativity brought to these projects, and suggest the rich cultural and artistic context in which each house was created. The works considered are thus brought to life through the people who commissioned, designed, and lived in them.on the design of Hollyhock House: the Cranbrook Greek Theatre, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by Marcus R. Burrowes (fig. 12), and the aquot;Roman Theatre according to Vitruviusaquot; reproduced from the first English translation of De architecturaanbsp;...
| Title | : | Women and the Making of the Modern House |
| Author | : | Alice T. Friedman |
| Publisher | : | Yale University Press - 2006 |
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