Who Built That? Modern Houses: An Introduction to Modern Houses and Their Architects - Softcover

Buch 1 von 3: Who Built That?

Cornille, Didier

 
9781616892630: Who Built That? Modern Houses: An Introduction to Modern Houses and Their Architects
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1616892633 ISBN 13: 9781616892630
Verlag: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Who Built That? Modern Houses takes readers on a fun-filled tour through ten of the most important houses by the greatest architects of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of each architect, illustrator Didier Cornille uses a light touch to depict the various stages of construction, paying special attention to key design innovations and signature details. Cornille's charming drawings and accessible text unlock the secrets of modern classic houses, ranging from Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye (1931) and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (1939) to Shigeru Ban's Cardboard House (1995) and Rem Koolhaas's Bordeaux House (1998). Readers of all ages will delight in this colorful introduction to modern architecture's most extraordinary homes.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Didier Cornille is a designer, illustrator, and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Le Mans, France.

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Who Built That? Modern Houses takes readers on a fun-filled tour through ten of the most important houses by the greatest architects of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of each architect, illustrator Didier Cornille uses a light touch to depict the various stages of construction, paying special attention to key design innovations and signature details. Cornille's charming drawings and accessible text unlock the secrets of modern classic houses, ranging from Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye (1931) and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (1939) to Shigeru Ban's Cardboard House (1995) and Rem Koolhaas's Bordeaux House (1998). Readers of all ages will delight in this colorful introduction to modern architecture's most extraordinary homes.

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Verlag
Princeton Architectural Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1616892633
ISBN 13 
9781616892630
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
84
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