Blueprints for modern living : history and legacy of the case study houses

Author(s)

• Smith, Elizabeth A. T.
• McCoy, Esther
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Bibliographic Information

Blueprints for modern living : history and legacy of the case study houses

exhibition organized by Elizabeth A.T. Smith ; essays by Esther McCoy ... [et al.]

Museum of Contemporary Art , MIT Press, 1998

• : pbk

Note

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... presented at the Temporary Contemporary of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 17, 1989 - February 18, 1990"--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. 251

"First MIT Press paperback edition, 1998"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Including eight main essays as well as contributions from Elizabeth A.T. Smith, this volume documents the Case Study House Progam, carried out between 1945 and 1966 where 36 experimental prototype houses were built by leading architects of the region of California.

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Details

• NCID: BA4292370X
• ISBN:
  • 0262692139
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Los Angeles,Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: 256 p.
• Size: 25 x 31 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : NA7235.C22
  • DC20 : 728/.37/09794907479494
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Architecture, Domestic -- California, Southern -- Case studies -- Exhibitions
  • LCSH : International style (Architecture) -- California, Southern -- Case studies -- Exhibitions
  • LCSH : Housing, Single family -- California, Southern -- Case studies -- Exhibitions