IF YOU WANT TO BUILD A HOUSE
Elizabeth Mock

Elizabeth Mock, Robert C. Osborn (illustrator): IF YOU WANT TO BUILD A HOUSE. NYC: Museum of Modern Art, 1946. First edition. A near-fine hardcover book with decorated, glazed boards in a near-fine dust jacket: just a trace of wear overall. A nice copy of this easily-abused volume. Interior is unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.

7.5 x 10.25 hardcover book with 96 pages and 136 b/w photographs and illustrations. A discriminating photographic survey of modern architecture with a simply-written analysis of problems in home planning, designing, and construction, with emphasis on reasons for what makes good design.. Numerous B&W photos of both exteriors & interiors. Highly recommended, since much of this information is still useful.

Photography by Julius Schulman, Ezra Stoller , Hedrick-Blessing Studio and others.

From the Book:"Modern architecture isn't..just another imitative style.It is an attitude towards life,an approach which starts with living people and their needs,physical and emotional,and tries to meet them as directly as possible,with the best procurable means.Otherwise there are no rules.The results will be as various as the range of materials offered,the human problems posed,and the creative talent employed in solving them. ... The most delicate part of your job as client will be the selection of an architect."

Contents:

• Needed -- A Fresh Approach: Choosing an Architect
• The Question of Size
• Space for Living
• Plenty of Light
• Small Houses can Seem Large
• An Opened House?
• The Use of Materials
• Furniture
• House and Surroundings
• Questions of Quality
• Postscript -- Must Houses be Expensive?

Designers, manufacturers, and artists whose works are shown and/or discussed in this volume include:PHILIP JOHNSON, LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, JOHN FUNK, HARWELL HAMILTON HARRIS, ALICE M. CARSON, GEORGE FRED KECK, CARL KOCH, G. HOLMES PERKINS, JOHN YEON, CLARENCE MAYHEW, VICTOR HORNBEIN, EDWARD DURELL STONE, WALTER BOGNER, OSCAR STONOROV, CONSTANTIN PERTZOFF, JOHN LAUTNER, LE CORBUSIER, RICHARD NEUTRA, PAUL NELSON, JOHN PORTER CLARK, ALBERT FREY, MARCEL BREUER, GERRIT RIETVELD, SERGE CHERMAYEFF, WILLIAM WILSON WURSTER, GARDNER A. DAILEY, RUDOLF MOCK, WALTER GROPIUS, EERO SAARINEN, CHARLES EAMES, GEORGE NELSON, HENRY WRIGHT, THEODORE BERNARDI, XENIA CAGE, L. L. RADO, BRUNO MATHSSON, PHILIP L. GOODWIN, PIETRO BELLUSCHI, ALDEN B. DOW, PAUL THIRY, JOSEPH P. RICHARDSON, HUSON JACKSON, JOHN SPAETH JR.,John W Lincoln, Paul Schweikher, W Curt Behrendt, Thomas D Church, FJ McCarthy, Diedrich F Rixmann, Bernard Rudofsky, Oscar Niemeyer, V&S Homsey, Mario Corbett, Dinwiddie & Hill, and others.

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