Living architecture : greatest American houses of the 20th century /

Browning, Dominique.

Living architecture : greatest American houses of the 20th century / Dominique Browning & Lucy Gilmour ; foreword by Mayer Rus ; photographers, Oberto Gili ... [et al.]. - New York : Assouline, c2010. - 259 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), plans 34 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Kaufmann house / Richard Neutra -- Fallingwater / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Moore house / Charles Moore -- Grotta house / Richard Meier -- Norman Fisher house / Louis Kahn -- House of earth + light / Marwan Al-Sayed -- Vizcaya / Francis Burrall Hoffman and Paul Chalfin -- Hooper house II / Marcel Breuer -- Schindler house / Rudolph Schindler -- Farnsworth house / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Gamble house / Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene -- Vanna Venturi house / Robert Venturi -- Reno house / Ricardo Legorreta -- Putterman house / Hugh Newell Jacobsen -- Saarinen house / Eliel Saarinen -- Elrod house / John Lautner -- Gwathmey house / Charles Gwathmey -- Cohen house / Paul Rudolph -- De Menil house / Philip Johnson -- Schnabel house / Frank Gehry.

Presents a selection of America's most innovative and iconic twentieth -century homes. Highlights American architecture best in a range of styles and eras-from James Deering's Vizcaya, his 1916 Italian Renaissance-inspired villa in Miami, to postwar marvels by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer, to more recent construction , such as Marwan Al-Sayed's mirage-like House of Earth and Light in the Southwest desert. Feature works that blur the lines between dwellings and art.

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Architect-designed houses--United States
Architecture, Domestic--United States

NA 7208 / .B821 2010