The American idea of home : conversations about architecture and design / Bernard Friedman ; foreword by Meghan Daum.

Author
Friedman, Bernard (Entrepreneur) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
xviii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

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    Series
    Roger Fullington series in architecture [More in this series]
    Summary note
    The American idea of home and the many types of housing that employ it launch lively, wide-ranging conversations about some of the most vital and important issues in architecture today. The topics that Friedman and his interviewees discuss illuminate five overarching themes: the functions and meanings of home; history, tradition, and change in residential architecture; activism, sustainability, and the environment; cities, suburbs, and regions; and technology, innovation, and materials. Friedman frames the interviews with an extended introduction that highlights these themes and helps readers appreciate the common concerns that underlie projects as disparate as Katrina cottages and Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian houses. Readers will come away from these thought-provoking interviews with an enhanced awareness of the "under the hood" kinds of designs decisions that fundamentally shape our ideas of home and the dwellings in which we live. -- from dust jacket.
    Notes
    Includes index.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Pt. 1. The functions and meanings of home
    • Richard Meier
    • Grant Hildebrand
    • Witold Rybczynski
    • Lester Walker
    • Sarah Susanka
    • Barbara Winslow and Max Jacobson
    • Hadley Arnold
    • pt. 2. History, tradition, change
    • Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
    • Kenneth Frampton
    • Lee Mindel
    • Eric Owen Moss
    • Robert A.M. Stern
    • Sam Watters
    • Douglas Garofalo
    • Tracy Kidder
    • pt. 3. Activism, sustainability, environment
    • Marianne Cusato
    • Andrew Freear
    • Cameron Sinclair
    • Robert Ivy
    • Charles Gwathmey
    • pt. 4. Cities, suburbs, regions
    • Paul Goldberger
    • Jeremiah Eck
    • Tom Kundig
    • Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
    • David Salmela
    • pt. 5. Technology, innovation, materials
    • Toshiko Mori
    • Greg Lynn
    • Thom Mayne
    • Lorcan O'Herlihy
    • Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena.
    ISBN
    • 9781477312865 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
    • 1477312862 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
    • 9781477312872 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 1477312870 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    SuDoc no.
    Z UA380.8 F914am
    LCCN
    2016037108
    OCLC
    957057006
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