ARCHITECTS' HOMES
DAS HAUS DES ARCHITEKTEN
LA MAISON DE L'ARCHITECTE
Robert Winkler
Robert Winkler: DAS HAUS DES ARCHITEKTEN / ARCHITECTS' HOMES / LA MAISON DE L'ARCHITECTE. New York and Zurich: Reinhold Publishing Corporation and Verlag Girsberger, 1955. First American edition. Text in English, French and German. A very good hard cover book with sun fading in a good dust jacket with a large chip missing on the back cover and wear to the front cover's top fore edge. Owner's signature on the dust jacket's front fold. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 9 x 11.25 hard cover book with 44 architects' houses from 13 different countries [approx. 350 b/w illustrations]. Includes interior and exterior photographs, floorplans and site diagrams. From the introduction: ":. . . the houses illustrated in this book are, one and all, extremely individual solutions from which all compromise has been excluded." Amazing compendium reads like a who's who of modern architecture. Includes a small b/w portrait of each included architect.
From the Book: "By means of a tri-lingual text - English, French and German - Mr. Winkler presents examples of 44 architects' houses, from 13 different countries. The principles generally accepted in the world of architecture, as well as regional traditions, come out more clearly than elsewhere in the architects' house. That is the justification for this book; the architect's home, better than any other, reveals his conception of domestic culture."
Architects include Alvar Aalto, Ruy Jervis d'Athouguia, Alfons Barth, Oswaldo Arthur Bratke, Marcel Breuer, J. H. van den Broek, Elsa Burckhardt, Ernst F. Burckhardt, Stephen Buzas, J. P. Clark, Justus Dahinden, William Dunkel, Aarne Ervi, Luigi Figini, Albert Frey, Conrad D. Furrer, Vittorio Gandolfi, Bengt Gate, Klaus Gessler, Ernst Gisel, Erno Goldfinger, Walter Gropius, Bernhard Hermkes, Philip Johnson, Finn Juhl, Victor de la Lama, Hans Leuzinger, Rino Levi, Sven Ivar Lind, Hermann Mattern, Walter Niehus, Maurice Novarina, Andre Rivoire, Alfred Roth, Karl Scherrer, Ernst Schindler, Paul Schnieder-Esieben, Elmar O. Schniewind, Felix SAchwarz, Paul Seitz, Walter Senn, Jose L. Sert, Robert Winkler, Kenzo Tange and Andre Wogensky.
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