Main entry:

Welter, Volker, author.

Title & Author:

Tremaine houses : one family's patronage of domestic architecture in midcentury America / Volker M. Welter.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2019]
©2019

Description:

viii, 213 pages : illustrations (some color), map, plans ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The Tremaines, Architectural Patronage, and the Contemporary House -- Brunninghausen, Montecito, California, 1936-38, by Lutah Maria Riggs -- The Warren and Katharine Tremaine House, Montecito, California, 1945-48, by Richard Neutra -- The Tremaine Beach House, 1946-48: from Lutah Maria Riggs and Arvin Shaw to Oscar Niemeyer -- Painting toward Postwar Architecture, 1948-49 -- Images of the Vernacular Architecture -Dreams of Domesticity, 1949-77 -- Architecture after the Tremaines -- Appendix A: Chronology of Selected Tremaine Houses and Architectural Projects -- Appendix B: Selected Architects and Designers Who Worked for the Tremaines -- Appendix C: Selected Tremaine Architectural Projects (Built), Designs (Not Built), and Exhibitions, 1940s-1950s (Gantt Chart).

Summary:

"This volume examines the patronage of modern architecture that the Tremaine family sustained for nearly four decades in the mid-twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781606066140 hardcover
1606066145 hardcover

Subject:

Tremaine family Homes and haunts United States.
Tremaine family Art patronage.
Tremaine, Burton Gad.
Tremaine family.
Tremaine, Burton Gad -1991
Architecture, Domestic United States History 20th century.
Architecture domestique États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture, Domestic History United States 20th century.
Art patronage.
Architecture, Domestic.
Homes.
Architektur
Auftraggeber
United States.
USA.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307000
Call No.: BIB 252543
Status: Available