Mizner's Florida: American Resort Architecture (Architectural History Foundation Book) - Softcover

Curl, Donald W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262530686 ISBN 13: 9780262530682

Verlag: MIT Press, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

This is the first complete biography of the inimitable society architect Addison Mizner, whose Spanish Revival buildings created a new style of resort architecture for Palm Beach and south Florida during the boom years of the 1920s. By 1925, Mizner ranked as one of the country's most prominent architects, as important in his own time as Richard Morris Hunt and Stanford White had been in theirs.

The book's 150 illustrations include plans and historical photographs - many published for the first time - showing Mizner's handling of space, the relation of his houses to the landscape, and the many picturesque buildings that combined the comfort and convenience expected by his clients.

Donald W. Curl is Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. The Architectural History Foundation American Monograph Series.

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"If anything, Mizner's work is more relevant today than it was twenty years ago. Then, it was his work that seemed stale. Now Modern architecture is the thing that is stale and Mizner has renewed freshness."--Paul Goldberger, "The New York Times"

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The biography of society architect, Addison Mizner. This book shows how Mizner's Spanish Revival buildings created a new style of resort architecture during the boom years of the 1920s.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262530686
• ISBN 13: 9780262530682
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262
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