builders' homes for better living

A now classic treatise on modern home design presenting over 60 examples of Eichler homes, approximately 10 examples of homes by Pardee-Philips and over 18 Research Village houses in Barrington, Illinois (a case-study type project by the United States Gypsum).

Written for builders, architects, engineers, as well as the individual buyer, examines the relationship of the house to the individual lot and landscaping, community planning, design concepts of the house, materials and methods of structure and the business of building. An influential look at modernist design philosophy and its relation to the postwar housing boom.

Hundreds of examples, most by A. Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmons but many, many other midcentury modern architects are representatived, including Craig Ellwood, Harris Armstrong, Anshen and Allen, Elliott Noyes, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, Pierre Koenig, Palmer and Krisel, Twitchell and Rudolph...

A- Very Good Condition with original dust jacket. Dust jacket has small chips and tears. pub date: 1957 publisher: Reinhold format: Hardcover sku: B770112 $955.00 (Qty avail: 1)