The modern house / Jonathan Bell, Matt Gibberd & Albert Hill

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Notes
CHMNK copy Purchased from the Cooper Hewitt Library Endowment.
Contents
Foreword / Matt Gibberd & Albert Hill -- Modern living in the new era / Jonathan Bell -- I. Town house : Slip house, London / Carl Turner Architects -- James Melvin House, London / Gollins Melvin Ward -- The framehouse, London / Marcus Lee -- Span housing, nationwide / Eric Lyons -- Herringbone house, London / Chan and Eayrs -- Laslett house, Cambridge / Trevor Dannatt -- House in Highgate Cemetery, London / Eldridge Smerin -- Bailey/Hickey House, London / Tom Kay -- Doctor Rogers' house, London / Richard and Su Rogers -- Fog house, London / Adjaye Associates -- South Hill Park, London / Howell & Amis -- Shoreditch prototype house, London / Cox/Bulleid -- Winter house, London / John Winter -- II. Conversion : Martello Tower Y, Suffolk / Piercy & Company -- Michael Craig-Martin Studio, London / John Pawson -- Shadow house, Wiltshire / Jonathan Tuckey Design -- The reservoir, Kent / Brinkworth -- The workshop, London / Henning Stummel -- An art collector's warehouse, London / 6a Architects -- III. Country house : The walled garden, East Sussex / Michael Manser -- Farnley Hey, West Yorkshire / Peter Womersley -- Red bridge house, East Sussex / Piers Smerin -- Stratton Park, Hampshire / Stephen Gardiner and Christopher Knight -- Sea Lane house, West Sussex / Marcel Breuer -- The Long Barn, Wiltshire / Klaentschi and Klaentschi -- High & over, Buckinghamshire / Amyas Connell -- Ochre barn, Norfolk / Carl Turner Architects -- Long Wall, Suffolk / Philip Dowson -- Eagle Rock, Sussex / Ian Ritchie -- Augustus John Studio, Hampshire / Christopher Nicholson -- Manor Way, Berkshire / Peter Foggo and David Thomas -- Ahm house, Herfordshire / Jørn Utzon and Povl Ahm -- IV. Apartment : Isokon Building, London / Wells Coates -- Roof garden apartment, London / Richard Rogers and Tonkin Liu -- Provender Mill, Burton, Somerset / Mark and Lucy Merer -- Barbican estate, London / Chamberlin, Powell and Bon -- Lost house, London / Adjaye Associates -- Highpoint I and II, London / Berthold Lubetkin
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." -- Amazon.com
Data Source
Smithsonian Libraries
Date
2015
21st century
author
Bell, Jonathan 1972-
Gibberd, Matt
Hill, Albert (Writer on architecture)
Type
Books
Physical description
159 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Place
Great Britain
Topic
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Modern
Record ID
siris_sil_1092351
Usage
CC0