The American Idea of Home: Conversations about Architecture and Design

Author:   Bernard Friedman ,  Meghan Daum
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
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Pages:   246
Publication Date:   02 May 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Bernard Friedman ,  Meghan Daum
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.739kg
ISBN:  

9781477312865


ISBN 10:   1477312862
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   02 May 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Foreword: No Place Like It by Meghan Daum Introduction by Bernard Friedman Part 1: The Functions and Meanings of Home Richard Meier Grant Hildebrand Witold Rybczynski Lester Walker Sarah Susanka Barbara Winslow and Max Jacobson Hadley Arnold Part 2: History, Tradition, Change Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown Kenneth Frampton Lee Mindel Eric Owen Moss Robert A. M. Stern Sam Watters Douglas Garofalo Tracy Kidder Part 3: Activism, Sustainability, Environment Marianne Cusato Andrew Freear Cameron Sinclair Robert Ivy Charles Gwathmey Part 4: Cities, Suburbs, Regions Paul Goldberger Jeremiah Eck Tom Kundig Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk David Salmela Part 5: Technology, Innovation, Materials Toshiko Mori Greg Lynn Thom Mayne Lorcan O'Herlihy Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena Acknowledgments Photography Credits Index

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Bernard Friedman is managing partner of Flying Mind, a multidisciplinary documentary development and production company. He directed American Homes, an animated one-thousand-year history of residential architecture in North America, which has been acclaimed at the Edinburgh Film Festival, New York Architecture & Design Film Festival, and Architecture Film Festival of Rotterdam, among others. Friedman is a founder and the current chair of the advisory board of the Arid Lands Institute, which trains designers and citizens to innovate in response to hydrologic variability brought on by climate change.

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