Main entry:

Anderson, Alex Thomas, author.

Title & Author:

The problem of the house : French domestic life and the rise of modern architecture / Alex T. Anderson.

Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2006]
©2006

Description:

xi, 220 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Series:

A McLellan Book

Notes:
"A McLellan book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index.
1. Raising up the bourgeois home. The ordinary supersedes the extraordinary at the Expositions Universelle ; Structural rationalism and the new French house ; The liberalization of the bourgeois French interior ; Domestic themes in the fine arts -- 2. Design and domestic settings: The Salons d'Automne of 1910 to 1913. 1910: The German challenge ; 1911: Constructeur/coloriste ; 1912: Un Salon Bourgeois ; 1913: The good and well-made thing -- 3. The war, house reconstruction, and furniture production -- 4. The end of decorative art, the hour of architecture. Toward a union of modern designers ; The end of decorative art ; The hour of architecture in France ; The architectes-décorateurs ; French modern architecture.

Summary:

"'The problem of the house is a problem of the epoch,' declared the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier; architecture, he felt, should focus on everyday life and produce housing that is 'made for living in.' In The Problem of the House, Alex Anderson explores a group of like-minded designers in France, the architects-decorateurs, who also committed themselves to designing and equipping the modern house. Most began as decorative artists, interior designers, and painters but moved into the field of architecture in the 1920s. They envisioned an environment conceived by architects, in which the traditional decorative arts would be replaced with domestic equipment, often standardized and mass-produced, with works of art selected by the occupants themselves. This concern with the house shaped Western European, and especially French, Modernist architecture. The author traces the development of these ideas in France from the Salons d'Automne displays of 1900 through the post-World War I period, when the early modern architects, influenced by Cubism and Art Nouveau, established architecture as a human-centered art based on relationships, not on obedience to rules. Figures include photographs of interior ensembles exhibited at the Salons d'Automne in the early 1900s, illustrations of urban plans and structures, stills from film sets that expressed the design concepts of the architects-décorateurs, and views of living spaces built for clients and for the architects themselves. The Problem of the House will appeal to art and architectural historians, students and scholars of architecture, interior designers, and decorative artists"--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

0295986328 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780295986326 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic France.
Architecture France History 19th century.
Architecture France History 20th century.
Decorative arts France History 19th century.
Decorative arts France History 20th century.
Interior decoration France Influence.
Architecture France Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture France Histoire 20e siècle.
Arts décoratifs France Histoire 19e siècle.
Arts décoratifs France Histoire 20e siècle.
Décoration intérieure France Influence.
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic
Decorative arts
Interior decoration Influence
Kunsthandwerk
Architektur
Wohnungsbau
Innenarchitektur
Haus
Architecture France 19th century.
Architecture France 20th century.
France
Frankreich

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

A McLellan Book.

French domestic life and the rise of modern architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253920
Call No.: BIB 183735
Status: Available