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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393731839
ISBN-139780393731835
eBay Product ID (ePID)50874818
Product Key Features
Book TitleHarvard Five in New Canaan : Midcentury Modern Houses by Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes, and Others
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory / Contemporary (1945-), Buildings / Residential, Individual Architects & Firms / General
Publication Year2006
IllustratorYes
GenreArchitecture
AuthorWilliam D. Earls
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight33.3 Oz
Item Length10.3 in
Item Width10.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-007099
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsComments from the period, pro and con, from...critics and some of the architects, add spice and insight...Recommended., [Y]our chance to step inside some of the most important homes created in the United States in the last 60 years., For...the...attention paid to...Modern homes in New Canaan, one might think there were...a few books...Until now, there was no such book., [A] valuable contribution to the literature of Modern architecture...key and fascinating chapter in the history of...America., [S]o satisfying....With well-rendered black-and-white plans, the reader can walk through each of the homes.
SynopsisSince the fifties, "the Harvard Five" has been the catchphrase for the five architects featured in this book, who all built houses for themselves and for clients in New Canaan, Connecticut. Other architects, well known (Frank Lloyd Wright, for example) and not so well known, also contributed significant modern houses that elicited strong reactions from nearly everyone who saw them and are still astonishing today. An introductory essay by Jean Ely, "New Canaan Modern" (reprinted by permission of the New Canaan Historical Society), recounts the history of the area and how New Canaan came to be the locus of the modern movement's experimentation in materials, construction methods, space, and form. The book is done as a "house tour" in chronological order, with photographs and floor plans., Since the fifties, the Harvard Five has been the catchphrase for the five architects featured in this book, who all built houses for themselves and for clients in New Canaan, Connecticut. Other architects, well known (Frank Lloyd Wright, for example) and not so well known, also contributed significant modern houses that elicited strong reactions from nearly everyone who saw them and are still astonishing today. An introductory essay by Jean Ely, New Canaan Modern (reprinted by permission of the New Canaan Historical Society), recounts the history of the area and how New Canaan came to be the locus of the modern movement's experimentation in materials, construction methods, space, and form. The book is done as a house tour in chronological order, with photographs and floor plans.
LC Classification NumberNA7238.N36E27 2006
