Main entry:

Schaecher, Steve, 1967- author, illustrator.

Title & Author:

Outhouses by famous architects / text and renderings by Steve Schaecher ; preface by I.P. Daley.

Publication:

San Francisco : Pomegranate, [2000]
©2000

Description:

1 volume (63 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Publisher's no: Catalog no. A533.
Includes bibliographical references.
The Pryamid of Tootanddropin (the Egyptians) 6 -- The Temple to Ralphus, God of Porcelain (the Greeks) 8 -- Thronehenge (the Druids) 10 -- The Triumphant Commode, or, The Arch of Business (the Romans) 12 -- The Caca Sophia (Anthemius and Isodorus) 14 -- Odor Dame Cathedral (Gothic) 16 -- The Florence Compost (Fillippo Brunelleschi) 18 -- Piazza Dell' Campanddumpo (Michelangelo) 20 -- Villa Crapperia (Andrea Palladio) 22 -- The Taj Ma-Stall (Emperor Shah Jahan) 24 -- St. Paul's Loo (Sir Christopher Wren) 26 -- Barriere de la Toilette (Claude-Nicolas Ledoux) 28 -- Johnicello (Thomas Jefferson) 30 -- Marshall Field's No. 2 Store (Henry Hobson Richardson) 32 -- Sagrada Latrina (Antonio Gaudi) 34 -- Merchants First National Outhouse (Louis Sullivan) 36 -- Flushingwater (Frank Lloyd Wright) 38 -- The Scheistler Building (William Van Alen) 40 -- The Scheisse House (Gerrit Rietveld) 42 -- Bidet Savoye (Le Corbusier) 44 -- Authaus (Walter Gropius) 46 -- Barcelona Port-A-Pavilion (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) 48 -- Glass Outhouse (Philip Johnson) 50 -- Geodesic Throne (R. Buckminster Fuller) 52 -- Trough Institute of Biological Studies (Louis I. Kahn) 54 -- Outdoor Manure Terminal (Eero Saarinen) 56 -- The Hancock's John Building (Bruce Graham/SOM) 58 -- Hadtoshat '67 (Moshe Safdie) 60 -- The Centre Pompidoodoo (Rogers and Piano) 62.

Summary:

"Outhouses have been much ridiculed and maligned structures, thought worthy of only the lowliest of humor and virtually ignored by architectural critics as inconsequential blips in the development of building design. And yet -- as architect Steve Schaecher so poignantly reveals in this collection of renderings -- architects of genius from time immemorial have used their considerable talents to enhance the beauty and function of the outhouse. His extensive research has uncovered a wealth of stunning outdoor bathroom designs that say much about the history of architecture. Although Schaecher's friends and family have worried about his obsession with bathroom drawings, it is clear that with the publication of this tome, his seat in the annals of architectural history will never be put down. Here are reproductions of stylish (dare we say "perfectionist"?) renderings of Thronehenge, Wright's Flushingwater, the Odor Dame Cathedral, the Taj Ma-stall, Jefferson's Johnicello, Sullivan's Merchants First National Outhouse, Le Corbusier's Bidet Savoye, Fuller's Geodesic Throne, the Hancock's John Building, the Centre Pompidoodoo -- the unmistakable outhouse for that weird-looking French museum -- and many others. Each is accompanied by insightful historical and analytical text, depending on your definitions of insightful and analytical. The preface, by architectural critic I. P. Daley, will leave you in no doubt of the importance of this completely nonsensical book"-- Book jacket.

ISBN:

0764912607 (hb)
9780764912603 (hb)

Subject:

Architecture History Humor.
Outhouses Caricatures and cartoons.
American wit and humor.
Architecture Histoire Humour.
Humour américain.
Architecture.
Outhouses.

Form/genre:

Wit and Humor.
Caricature.
Writings.
humor.
caricatures.
illustrated books.
Caricatures.
Caricatures and cartoons.
History.
Humor.
Illustrated works.
Humour.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Daley, I. P., writer of preface.

Out houses by famous architects

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228082
Call No.: NA44.S2935.A35 2000
Status: Available