Architects' Dream Houses

by Jean-Claude Delorme

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Author(s)

Jean-Claude Delorme

Publication

New York ; London ; Paris : Abbeville Press Publishers, 1996

Scope

120 Pages, illustrated, 28 cm.

ISBN

0789201267

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How do great houses come to be? Here are the stories of 10 extraordinary homes and their creation. From London architect Sir John Soane's postneoclassical 18th-century abode--and his awareness of light as an element of design--to writer Curzio Malaparte's spectacular-yet-austere 1930s villa, perched atop a rocky spur in Capri, Architects' Dream Houses ably illustrates the influences that led to the emergence of modernism.

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Person as subject

Sir John Soane, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Adolf Loos, Victor Horta ...[et al.]

Keywords

architects , utopia , architecture history , modernism

Location

Cabinet 15 - 3: Architectuur en Kunst

Remarks

Incl. Index.