Main entry:

Ford, Edward R.

Title & Author:

Five houses, ten details / Edward R. Ford.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.

Description:

255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-249) and index.
Five houses -- pt. 1. Ch. 1. The detail as abstraction : place and displacement -- Ch. 2. House 1 -- Ch. 3. Abstraction and animation -- pt. 2. Ch. 4. The detail as material expression : material and form -- Ch. 5. House 2 -- Ch. 6. The Free Union School competition -- Ch. 7. Sculpture, engineering, and architecture -- pt. 3. Ch. 8. The detail as structural representation : structure and weight -- Ch. 9. House 3 -- Ch. 10. Gravity and meaning -- pt. 4. Ch. 11. The detail as joint : abstraction and joints -- Ch. 12. House 4 -- Ch. 13. The Alpine Mountain Hut competition -- Ch. 14. The part and the whole -- pt. 5. Ch. 15. The detail as dissonant element : architecture and furniture -- -- Ch. 16. House 5 -- Ch. 17. The Matteson Public Library -- Ch. 18. Scale and dissonance -- Epilogue. The detail -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Credits.

Summary:

The author explores the history of five designs from among many that he generated for a small urban lot he purchased near the center of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781568988269 (hc ; alk. paper)
1568988265 (hc ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Details.
Architecture, Domestic Designs and plans.
Architecture Détails.
Architecture domestique Dessins et plans.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architektur
Architekturzeichnung
Detail
Haus

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262700
Call No.: BIB 193820
Status: Available