The 20th-century canon contains many houses—small private structures built for the use and enjoyment of their owners, which have nonetheless become widely known, even familiar, to the architectural scholar and enthusiast. Inevitably, we know many such works mainly through representations. The essays that follow explore the diverse and sometimes misleading ways in which certain houses have become known, and understood (or misunderstood), and canonized.
15: Five Houses, plus American Scenes Fall 2001
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Table of Contents
Essays
Mart Stam’s Trousers by Crimson Speaks with Michael Speaks and Gerard Hadders
A Name, Then a Chair, Then a House
Biospherian Dreams
Genius Loco
Notes from Underground
Once Again by the Pacific
Tugendhat Frames
Reviews
Dreamworld and Catastrophe by Susan Buck-Morss
Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture by Charles Jencks
Shaping the Great City edited by Eve Blau and Monika Platzer