The modern house /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	[London] : Artifice books on architecture, 2015.
Description:	159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Architecture, Domestic -- Great Britain. Architecture, Domestic -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. Architecture, Modern -- 20th century. Architecture, Modern -- 21st century. Architecture, Domestic. Architecture, Modern. Great Britain
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10503208

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Other authors / contributors:	Bell, Jonathan, 1972- editor, author. Gibberd, Matt, editor. Hill, Albert, editor.
ISBN:	9781908967725 1908967722
Summary:	The modern house' reflects upon the complicated relationship architecture has with the terms Modernist, Modernism and Modern specifically in relation to the potent concept of the home, reflecting in part the narrative of how some of the most important examples of Modern houses were commissioned and built in the UK. These special examples of British Modernism include such progressive experiments on communal urban living as London s Isokon Building, completed in 1934 by eminent architect Wells Coates, and Berthold Lubetkin's Highpoint, which is today considered one of the most prominent examples of the early International Style. Compared with these urban enormities are private houses, such as the Laslett House in Cambridge, 1958, by the architect Trevor Dannatt, or the Winter House, designed by John Winter as his own residence. Included are an extended introductory essay by acclaimed architectural journalist Jonathan Bell, former architecture editor for Wallpaper* and contributing editor at Blueprint, and projects such as those designed by renowned architect Carl Turner, responsible for the low energy Slip House, a cantilevered sculptural abode of translucent glass, steel and concrete. With images of yet to be seen interiors and restorations, 'The Modern house' illuminates the convergent characteristics of functionalism, truth to materials, flowing space and natural light within the Modern home as a space for living."

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This is a marvelous book for historians who specialize in the last 100 years of modern architecture, which was born in 1922-3 simultaneously in Holland, France, Germany, and Russia. England played no role in the birth of modern architecture and only minimally accepted it after European architects emigrated there during the Great Depression. This book catalogs the work of The Modern House, a leading real estate company in England specializing in this legacy and founded in 2005 by art historians Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill, two of the book's authors. The book includes 50 modern residences--apartments, country houses, townhouses, and conversions of industrial properties--built in England over the past 90 years. The write-ups are wonderful, but the book lacks scholarly apparatus. And the reader will have to look to the end of the book for the table of contents. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. --Peter Samuel Kaufman, Boston Architectural College

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