By Bernard Friedman,Meghan Daum
ISBN-10: 1477312862
ISBN-13: 9781477312865
"Home is an idea," Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, "a tale we inform ourselves approximately who we're and who and what we need closest in our midst." In The American proposal of Home, documentary filmmaker Bernard Friedman interviews greater than thirty leaders within the box of structure a couple of constellation of principles in terms of housing and residential. The interviewees contain Pritzker Prize winners Thom Mayne, Richard Meier, and Robert Venturi; Pulitzer Prize winners Paul Goldberger and Tracy Kidder; American Institute of Architects head Robert Ivy; and mythical architects similar to Denise Scott Brown, Charles Gwathmey, Kenneth Frampton, and Robert A. M. Stern.
The American notion of domestic and the various forms of housing that include it release vigorous, wide-ranging conversations approximately the most very important and critical matters in structure this day. the subjects that Friedman and his interviewees speak about remove darkness from 5 overarching issues: the features and meanings of domestic; background, culture, and alter in residential structure; activism, sustainability, and the surroundings; towns, suburbs, and areas; and know-how, innovation, and fabrics. Friedman frames the interviews with a longer advent that highlights those issues and is helping readers take pleasure in the typical matters that underlie initiatives as disparate as Katrina cottages and Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian homes. Readers will come clear of those thought-provoking interviews with an greater wisdom of the "under the hood" sorts of layout judgements that essentially form our rules of domestic and the dwellings during which we live.
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