Main entry:

Leeuwen, Thomas A. P. van.

Title & Author:

The springboard in the pond : an intimate history of the swimming pool / Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen ; edited by Helen Searing.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998]
©1998

Description:

vi, 321 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

Graham Foundation/MIT Press series in contemporary architectural discourse

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-309) and index.
Fleeing and Flying: Dreams, Tactics, and the Floating Swimming Pool -- Lords of the Swan I: From Maison de Plaisance to Playhouse -- Lords of the Swan II: The Playhouse, the Pool House, and the Pool -- Lords of the Swan III: W.R. Hearst, a West Coast Lohengrin -- The Aquatic Ape and Hollywood: Love, Death, and the Swimming Pool -- Perverse Hydrophobia: The Medusa Complex, or the Dark Side of the Pool -- The Zoo in the Pool.
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Summary:

In The Springboard in the Pond, Thomas van Leeuwen looks at a familiar hole, the domestic swimming pool, and discovers an icon indispensable to the reading of twentieth-century modernism.

ISBN:

0262220598 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780262220590 (hc ; alk. paper)
0262720329
9780262720328

Subject:

Water and architecture.
Swimming pools History.
Eau et architecture.
Piscines Histoire.
Swimming pools
Schwimmbad
Geschichte
Zwembaden.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Searing, Helen.
Graham Foundation/MIT Press series in contemporary architectural discourse.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 176547
Call No.: NA2542.8.L4 1998
Status: Available