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First house :the grid, the figure and the void /Christian Bjone ; photographs by Robert Walker.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-245501

Description

223 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm., First House examines the first works of key architects from the Modern Movement who taught or studied at Harvard between the late 1930s and early 1950s. Drawings, project descriptions, and details concerning the cost of each building are included.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Influence.
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture History 20th century.
Haus.
Architektur.
Bauhaus.
Geschichte 1937-1959.

Originator

Bjone, Christian.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Academy

Description

223 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
First House examines the first works of key architects from the Modern Movement who taught or studied at Harvard between the late 1930s and early 1950s. Drawings, project descriptions, and details concerning the cost of each building are included.

Notes

"This book examines the first houses of a selection of the soon-to-be famous Harvard architecture students of the 1930s to 1950s: Edward Larrabee Barnes, Ulrich Franzen, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes, I.M. Pei, Paul Rudolph"--Jkt.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221) and index.
Complimentary copy, July 26, 2002.

ISBN

0470845384
9780470845387

Call Number

Stacks NA7208.B58 2002

Other People and Orgs

Bauhaus
Bauhaus.

Places

United States.
United States
USA.

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