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

Author: Elizabeth A T Smith; Esther McCoy; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.); et al
Publisher: Los Angeles : Museum of Contemporary Art ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1998, ©1989.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st MIT Press pbk. edView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Exhibitions
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth A T Smith; Esther McCoy; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.); et al
ISBN: 0262692139 9780262692137
OCLC Number: 42950395
Notes: "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.
Description: 256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 31 cm.
Contents: Foreword and acknowledgments / Richard Koshalek --
Blueprints for modern living : history and legacy of the case study houses / Elizabeth A.T. Smith --
Arts & architecture case study houses / Esther McCoy --
The thirty-six case study projects / Amelia Jones and Elizabeth A.T. Smith --
Case study Trouvé : sources and precedents, Southern California, 1920-1942 / Thomas S. Hines --
Case study houses : in the grand modern tradition / Helen Searing --
The case study program and the impending future : some regional considerations / Kevin Starr --
Arts & architecture and the Los Angeles vanguard / Elizabeth A.T. Smith --
The search for the postwar house / Thomas Hine --
Klarheit, Ehrlichkeit, Einfachkeit ... and wit too! : the case study houses in the world's eyes / Reyner Banham. Model houses for the millions : architects' dreams, builders' boasts, residents' dilemmas / Dolores Hayden --
Extending the case study concept : newly commissioned works.
Responsibility: exhibition organized by Elizabeth A.T. Smith ; essays by Esther McCoy ... [et al.].

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