Iconic House - Bradbury Dominic
Iconic House - Bradbury Dominic From the first stirrings of modernity in the early twentieth century to the present, the house has served as a test bed of design experimentation, the place where…
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Iconic House - Bradbury Dominic
From the first stirrings of modernity in the early twentieth century to the present, the house has served as a test bed of design experimentation, the place where architects have sought to create new forms and to offer new domestic lifestyles. Then eighty houses--sixty of which have been specially photographed--are presented chronologically. Alvar Aalto, Buckminster Fuller, Rudolph Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, Eileen Gray, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Gwathmey, Carlo Scarpa, Herzog & de Meuron: most great architects of the past hundred years have begun or catalyzed their careers with an iconic house.The introduction looks at the historical and social motivations behind epoch-making residential architecture, showing in sidebars twenty of the most important early examples.
The text describes the all-important relationship between architecture and client, the
Iconic House - Bradbury Dominic