Part of a series that aims to place buildings within their historical context, this text considers Wright's Fallingwater, the Eames brother's Eames House and Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea. It includes specially produced technical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and put together. The text explains how together as innovative and experimental pieces, the house represent pinnacles of modern residential design.
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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Only three, but really good three,
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This review is from: Twentieth Century Houses (Architecture 3s) (Hardcover)
This collection from phaidon, give as a good study of three projects with detailed plans and good pictures. This book recovers also a three masterpieces, fallingwater, villa mairea and eames houses. Three good projects, cheap price, just get it.
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Wonderful Book for Architecture Student or Architect,
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This review is from: Twentieth Century Houses (Architecture 3s) (Hardcover)
Twentieth Century Houses features one major work by three architects - Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water; Alvar AAlto's Via Mairea; Charles & Ray Eames's Eames House. It has interesting text, beautiful photographs and is both an intellectual treatise and a delight to view. I highly recommend it.
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GREAT BOOK FOR ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS!,
By James Bryan (Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Twentieth Century Houses (Architecture 3s) (Hardcover)
This Book is very good for beginner architecture students, it gives thorough dissection of the homes, from original concepts to final results and motives. includes 3 great works and great pictures/plans.
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