The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool (Graham Foundation / MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse)

Van Leeuwen, Thomas A. P.

ISBN 10: 0262220598 / ISBN 13: 9780262220590

Verlag: The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998

Beschreibung

1999 First Edition, 2nd printing. A quite minor bump at top of spine, elsewise a fine, like-new, bright, clean, tight copy sans other flaws. "Although others have written eloquently on the relationship of water to built form, until now no one has investigated the swimming pool as a quintessentially modern and American space, reflecting America's infatuation with hygiene, skin, and recreation. In 'The Springboard in the Pond,' Thomas van Leeuwen looks at a familiar hole - the domestic swimming pool - and discovers an icon indispensable to the reading of twentieth-century modernism." PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in black-and-white photography with accompanying descriptive captions. 320 pages. LBCMA5. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 016393

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate ...

Verlag: The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

Erscheinungsdatum: 1998

Einband: Pictorial Softcover. Paperback

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket as Issued

Auflage: First Edition

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Inhaltsangabe:

Book by Searing Helen ed Thomas A P Van Leeuwen

Críticas:

" At a moment where ' all that is solid' seems precarious, Thomas van Leeuwen's "History of the Swimming Pool" is an heroic and timely attempt to theorize an architecture of the liquid." -- Rem Koolhaas & quot; At a moment where & lsquo; all that is solid& rsquo; seems precarious, Thomas van Leeuwen's History of the Swimming Pool is an heroic and timely attempt to theorize an architecture of the liquid.& quot; -- Rem Koolhaas "At a moment where 'all that is solid' seems precarious, Thomas van Leeuwen's "History of the Swimming Pool" is an heroic and timely attempt to theorize an architecture of the liquid."--Rem Koolhaas