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    Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties: 64 Designs by Neutra, Gropius, Breuer, Stone and Others
    Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties: 64 Designs by Neutra, Gropius, Breuer, Stone and Others
    Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties: 64 Designs by Neutra, Gropius, Breuer, Stone and Others
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    Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties: 64 Designs by Neutra, Gropius, Breuer, Stone and Others

    By James Ford and Katherine Morrow Ford

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    Splendid pictorial record of architectural style strongly influenced by Bauhaus movement. Over 300 illustrations show interiors, exteriors. Details on construction, site, cost, more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJul 6, 2012
    ISBN9780486138619
    Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties: 64 Designs by Neutra, Gropius, Breuer, Stone and Others

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      BICKNELL’S VICTORIAN BUILDINGS, A. J. Bicknell. (23904-7)

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      THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, Clarence Cook. (28586-3)

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      PRINCIPLES OF VICTORIAN DECORATIVE DESIGN, Christopher Dresser. (28900-1)

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      BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK: A PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE, Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. and Henry Hope Reed. (25698-7)

      PHILADELPHIA THEATERS, Irvin R. Glazer. (27833-6)

      117 HOUSE DESIGNS OF THE 20s, Gordon-Van Tine Co. (26959-0)

      FORM, FUNCTION, AND DESIGN, Paul Jacques Grillo. (20182-1)

      THE DECORATIVE DESIGNS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, David A. Hanks. (40730-6)

      FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S FALLINGWATER: THE HOUSE AND ITS HISTORY, Donald Hoffmann. (27430-6)

      UNDERSTANDING FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S ARCHITECTURE, Donald Hoffmann. (28364-X)

      HOLLY’S PICTURESQUE COUNTRY SEATS, Henry Hudson Holly. (27856-5)

      ORNAMENTAL CARPENTRY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY HOUSES, Ben Karp. (24144-0)

      EARLY DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF CONNECTICUT, J. Frederick Kelly. (21136-3)

      THE CITY OF TOMORROW AND ITS PLANNING, Le Corbusier. (Available in U.S. only.) (25332-5)

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      Paperbound unless otherwise indicated. Available at your book dealer, online at www.doverpublications.com, or by writing to Dept. 23, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, NY 11501. For current price information or for free catalogs (please indicate field of interest), write to Dover Publications or log on to www.doverpublications.com and see every Dover book in print. Each year Dover publishes over 500 books on fine art, music, crafts and needlework, antiques, languages, literature, children’s books, chess, cookery, nature, anthropology, science, mathematics, and other areas.

      Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      This Dover edition, first published in 1989, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc., New York, in 1940 under the title The Modern House in America.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Ford, James, 1884–1944.

      [Modern house in America]

      Classic modern homes of the thirties : 64 designs by Neutra,

      Gropius, Breuer, Stone, and others / James Ford and Katherine

      Morrow Ford.

      p. cm.

      Reprint. Originally published: The modern house in America. New York, N.Y. : Architectural Book Pub., c 1940.

      Includes index.

      9780486138619

      1. Architecture, Domestic—United States—Designs and plans. 2. Architecture, Modern—20th century—United States—Designs and plans. 3. International style (Architecture)—United States. I. Ford, Katherine Morrow, 1905–. II. Title.

      NA7208.F6 1989

      728.3’7’0973—dc 19

      88-38596

      CIP

      Table of Contents

      DOVER BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      PREFACE

      ILLUSTRATED PRESENTATION OF HOUSES

      INDEX

      PREFACE

      THERE is abundant evidence of a rapidly developing interest in the new architecture—known as modern. Recent polls by magazines (e.g. Life and the Architectural Forum) make this clear. Also it is certain that increasing space would not long have been given to homes of modern design in the daily press, architectural and building journals, women’s magazines, and periodicals in the field of home decoration in the absence of a sustained and developing popular demand.

      This does not represent a trivial change in public taste, nor is it essentially a fad. The trend is not superficial but fundamental, not local but general. Its development is the natural result of the profound social and economic changes which have been running their progressive course within the past century. Above all it is a logical outgrowth of a new perspective upon human interests and values.

      The purpose of this volume is threefold: to call attention to a movement which we believe to be of deep significance both to architecture and to life; to show it in its international perspective but with reference to America’s contribution; and to make some of its potentialities known to home builders as well as to architects. Modern residential architecture has been treated as organic planning integrated with suitable design. This collection is essentially American, not merely because limited to houses built in this country, but because virtually every house presented shows some degree of American originality.

      In the illustrated pages which follow, selection has been made of houses which exemplify the purposes and spirit, as well as the techniques, of modern architecture. Houses in which the forms, characteristic of modern, have served merely as a veneer or style, to hide a traditional plan, have been excluded as modernistic, as distinguished from true or organic modern. Limitations of space, however, forced from the very outset the elimination of many excellent examples of new architectural design and of functional planning—houses that we would have liked to include. It was decided to omit all of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, because illustrated accounts of the latter are available to the public in other volumes. On the other hand catholicity of representation seemed desirable in order that the regionalism of modern might be apparent, as well as the wide variety of interpretations, materials, and costs. A few of the earlier examples of the so-called international style were retained to reveal trends and transitional stages. We believe study of this collection by dates or sequence as well as by regions and by architects, to be profitable.

      Examination of each house plan, in conjunction with the brief statement which accompanies it,

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