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Frank Lloyd Wright : prairie houses

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With the advent of Prairie style architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright embarked on a journey that would forever change the course of architecture. During this extraordinarily prolific period, roughly the first quarter of the twentieth century, Wright built the first great modern American houses. He cast aside many of the conventions of the past, opening up interior spaces so that there might be a more subtle flow of rooms. The plans for Prairie style architecture were based on a tartan plaid of main spaces and secondary spaces, of public rooms and circulation spaces. Their decentralized asymmetry did not follow the Beaux Arts insistence on a primary, often dominating, focal point—a vestige of its roots as a symbolic architecture for divine-right royalty. Following Wright's philosophy, Prairie design was emphatically democratic and non-hierarchical. Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Houses comprehensively demonstrates this philosophy. Focusing on interiors and details, the book features more than 70 Prairie style houses and other buildings, still extant, in lavish, full-color photography.

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Julius Shulman: Palm Springs

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Through Julius Shulman’s lens, the architecture of Southern California became iconic images of modernism. His photographs heralded the glamor and casual elegance of a lifestyle and architecture that has become revered worldwide. Focusing on the desert paradise of Palm Springs, which was his seminal crucible, this book presents his masterpieces. Images range from Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House and Albert Frey’s Raymond Loewy House, to Paul R. Williams’ house for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Frank Sinatra’s house, John Lautner’s house for Bob Hope, as well as other famous landmarks. The book features more than sixty buildings by fifteen of the most notable mid-twentieth-century architects. With new photography and images culled from his personal collection as well as the Getty Center, this book includes many images never before seen.

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Oscar Niemeyer : houses

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Photographs by Alan Weinntraub. "Oscar Niemeyer houses" showcases the houses built by this modern architect. They show a wealth of solutions that respond to a wide range of sites : the steep hillsides of Rio, the Atlantic beach shore, the rain forest, and the residential neighborhoods of Rio and Sao Paulo.

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Frank Lloyd Wright : the houses

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Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's Fallingwater (1935), the seminal masterpiece perched over a waterfall deep in the Pennsylvania highlands, is perhaps the best-known private house in the history of the world. In fact, Wright's houses-from his Prairie style Robie House (1906) in Chicago, to the Storer (1923) and Freeman (1923) houses in Los Angeles, and Taliesen West (1937) in the Arizona desert-are all touchstones of modern architecture. For the first time, all 289 extant houses are shown here in color photographs. Along with Weintraub's photos and a selection of floor plans and archival images, the book includes text and essays by several Wright scholars.

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Casa Modernista: A history of the Brazil Modern house

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A rediscovery of one of the most powerful schools of Modernism. Brazilian Modernism is the soulful alternative to its European parent, better known for theoretical rigor and cold precision. Using the modern materials of concrete and reinforced glass, as well as wood and steel, Brazilians brought to Modernism an unspoken philosophy that allowed for the free flow of nature and built forms, so that the one was not dominated by the other. The undulating and amorphous buildings of Oscar Niemeyer are perhaps the best known expressions of this philosophy, in which the typical straight line of Europe’s Modern home becomes a graceful arabesque. Casa Modernista features not only the work of Niemeyer, but also that of the most important modern architects of this extremely rich, multifaceted nation, including Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Jorge Machado Moreira, Carlos Leao, Alvaro Vital Brazil, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Joao Walter Toscano, and Abrahao Sanovicz.

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Oscar Niemeyer : maisons

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L'œuvre d'Oscar Niemeyer a ouvert de nouvelles perspectives à l'architecture moderne du XXe siècle. Niemeyer est connu avant tout pour ses grandes réalisations institutionnelles au Brésil et en Europe. Mais un autre aspect significatif de sa carrière reste pratiquement ignoré : ses projets de résidences privées. Ce livre nous les montre, comme autant de chefs-d'œuvre architecturaux méconnus. Souvent construites pour des membres de sa famille ou d'importants commanditaires (quand ce n'était pas pour lui-même), ces maisons offrent une richesse de solutions correspondant à une grande variété de sites : les pentes abruptes de Rio, les plaines de Brasilia, les plages de l'Atlantique, la forêt tropicale, les quartiers résidentiels de Rio et de São Paulo... Certaines sont de conception audacieuse, comme celle que Niemeyer a construite pour lui-même en 1953, avec son toit de béton de forme libre et ses murs de verre en arrondi. D'autres révèlent le goût de Niemeyer pour le style colonial et l'architecture traditionnelle hérités de l'occupation portugaise au Brésil. Mais la vision unificatrice de Niemeyer domine toutes ces variations, attestée par une vie de recherches et d'innovations à travers tous ses projets de maisons - construites ou non.

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Frank Lloyd Wright, bâtiments publics

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Ce livre présente les principaux projets de l'architecte américain : le Guggenheim Museum à New York, la Price Tower à Bartlesville, le Marin County Center à San Rafael, en Californie, Unity Temple à Oak Park, dans l'Illinois, le Florida Southern College à Lakeland, en Floride, et Taliesin West, à Scottsdale, en Arizona. On trouvera aussi d'étonnantes images d'archives de superbes bâtiments démolis, tel l'Imperial Hotel à Tokyo et Midway Gardens à Chicago, ainsi que des dessins de Wright d'inspiration visionnaire, dont ceux de l'Opéra de Bagdad et du gratte-ciel Mile High, Illinois, pour ne citer qu'eux.

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Frank Lloyd Wright: natural design, organic architecture

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This book explores Wright's lessons on how climate, sustainability, sunlight, modern technology, local materials, and passive environmental controls can become the inspiration for excellent design, and highlights a selection of Wright's buildings to show how he dealt with these issues. The book is organized by the green concepts Wright used--including passive solar design and the use of thermal massing, passive berm insulation, environmentally sensitive landscaping, passive ventilation systems, passive natural light, and intelligent and artful adaptation of technology--with examples from different houses. It shows how Wright evolved certain ideas that continue to spur discussions of green architecture design today.

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The architecture of John Lautner

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Born in 1911, Lautner apprenticed to Frank Lloyd Wright before establishing his own office in Hollywood in 1939. Among his best-known projects are the Malin Residence (Chemosphere), the Reiner Residence (Silvertop), and the Elrod Residence in Palm Springs (seen in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever). Designed with Lautner before his death in 1994, this oversized monograph includes almost fifty houses, each described in detailed drawings and photographs, as well as an interview in which Lautner discusses the most important influences on his work and his eccentric views on architecture.

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Frank Lloyd Wright : Mid-Century Modern

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The mid-twentieth century was one of the most productive and inventive periods in Wright's career, producing such masterworks as the Guggenheim Museum, Price Tower, Fallingwater, the Usonian houses, and the Loveness House, as well as a vast array of innovative furniture and object design. With a variety of shapes and forms-ranging from honeycombs to spirals-this period is an important contribution to mid-century modernism. Mentoring such talents as Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler among others, Wright was one of the most influential proponents of the simplicity, democratic designs, and organic forms that characterize Mid-Century Modern. With lavish, new, previously unpublished color photographs and detailed plans, Frank Lloyd Wright: Mid-Century Modern is a comprehensive examination of an underserved period in Wright's career.