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The first American women architects
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ISBN: 0252033213 9780252033216 Year: 2008 Publisher: Urbana University of Illinois Press

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By 1920, there were over two hundred women practicing architecture in the United States, actively working on major design and building projects before they were even given the right to vote. These women designed thousands of buildings nationwide: apartments in Kansas City, hotels in the nation's national parks, churches in Michigan, and mansions on the coast of California, to name a few. In The First American Women Architects, Sarah Allaback chronicles the lives and careers of more than seventy pioneering female architects practicing in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nearly all of whom have been forgotten--until now. Organized alphabetically as a reference guide, this volume provides a biographical sketch of each architect's life, education, and professional career, and a list of known works and sources for further research. Many of these remarkable women have never before appeared in any other history, making The First American Women Architects a unique and invaluable reference for students and scholars interested in women's history and architecture. As an instructive record of the legacy of women in architectural history, this book will also serve as a stimulating indicator of the broadening potential for women and other minorities within the field of architecture.


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Modern housing
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ISBN: 9781517909062 Year: 2020 Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. University of Minnesota Press

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Originally published in 1934, Modern Housing is widely acknowledged as one of the most important books on housing of the twentieth century, introducing the latest developments in European modernist housing to an American audience. It is also a manifesto: America needs to draw on Europe’s example to solve its housing crisis. Only when housing is transformed into a planned, public amenity will it truly be modern. Modern Housing’s sharp message catalyzed an intense period of housing activism in the United States, resulting in the Housing Act of 1937, which Catherine Bauer coauthored. But these reforms never went far enough: so long as housing remained the subject of capitalist speculation, Bauer knew the housing problem would remain. In light of today’s affordable housing emergency, her prescriptions for how to achieve humane and dignified modern housing remain as instructive and urgent as ever.


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Los Angeles : the architecture of four ecologies
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ISBN: 9780520260153 0520260155 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,

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Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building. His construct of "four ecologies" examined the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways, the flatlands, and the foothills. Banham delighted in this mobile city and identified it as an exemplar of the posturban future. In a spectacular new foreword, architect and scholar Joe Day explores how the structure of Los Angeles, the concept of "ecology," and the relevance of Banham's ideas have changed over the past thirty-five years.


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Arts & architecture : 1945-1949
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ISBN: 9783836551021 3836551020 Year: 2014 Publisher: Köln : Taschen,

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The best years of our lives: How Arts and Architecture paved the way in post-war construction and culture From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern design and low-cost materials. The trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study House Program, a blueprint for modern habitation championed by the era's leading American journal, Arts & Architecture. The complete facsimile of the ambitious and groundbreaking Arts & Architecture was published by TASCHEN in 2008 as a limited edition. This new curation--directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen--brings together all the covers and the highlights from the first five years of the legendary magazine, with a special focus on the Case Study House Program and its luminary pioneers including Neutra, Schindler, Saarinen, Ellwood, Lautner, Eames, and Koenig. A celebration of the first brave years of a politically, socially and culturally engaged publication, this special selection is also a testimony to one of the most unique and influential events in the history of American architecture. Text in English, French, German, and Spanish.

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Architecture --- Arts --- 7.037 --- 72.037(73) --- 749.037 --- Woningbouw ; 1945-1949 ; Case Study Houses (CSH) --- Arts & Architecture ; A&A (Tijdschrift) --- Trefwoord --- Kunst en architectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; 20ste eeuw ; 1945-1949 --- Entenza, John --- Architectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; Westkust ; Modernisme --- Neutra, Richard --- Schindler, R.M. --- Lautner, John --- Shulman, Julius --- Harris, Harwell --- Ain, Gregory --- Eames, Charles and Ray --- Wright, Frank Lloyd --- Killingsworth, Ed --- Soriano, Raphael --- Ellwood, Craig --- Koenig, Pierre --- Campbell & Wong --- Wurster, William --- Saarinen, Eero --- Dada --- Follis, John --- Heller, Steven --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- History --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; 1900 - 1950 --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1900 - 1950 ; Verenigde Staten --- Meubelkunst en design ; 1900 - 1950 --- Design and construction --- Arts & architecture magazine. --- Architecture domestique --- Projets d'architecture --- Dessins et plans --- Périodiques --- Revue --- Magazine --- Projet d'architecture --- Analyse de l'architecture --- Analyse de l'art --- Années 1940 --- USA --- Amérique du Nord --- Dessins et plans. --- Périodiques. --- Histoire de l'habitat --- 728.3 --- Schindler, R.M --- Woningbouw ; eengezinshuizen --- États-Unis --- Architecture, Primitive --- Arts, Primitive --- Périodiques.

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