Florida modern : residential architecture 1945-1970 : Hochstim, Jan : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

271 pages : 28 cm

In the 25 years following the Second World War, Florida was home to the building of some remarkable and daring modern architecture. In this volume, Hochstim (history of modern architecture, U. of Miami) discusses the unique character of modern residential architecture in Florida of that time, and presents descriptions, plans, and color and black & white photographs of particular residences, organized by region. Among the 40 architects featured are several from the famed Sarasota School, including Paul Rudolph, Ralph Twitchell, Gene Leedy, and Rufus Nims. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-269)

The roots of modernism -- South Atlantic Coast : Wahl J. Snyder ; Robert Law Weed ; Marion I. Manley ; Robert M. Little ; Russell T. Pancoast ; Igor B. Polevitzky ; Alfred Browning Parker ; Rufus Nims ; Robert Bradford Browne ; George F. Reed ; Peter Augustus Jefferson ; Milton C. Harry ; Robert E. Hanson ; Dan C. Duckham ; Donald Ivan Singer -- South Gulf Coast : Ralph Spencer Twitchell and Paul Marvin Rudolph ; Paul Marvin Rudolph ; Jack West ; Edward J. (Tim) Seibert ; Ralph and William Zimmerman with Frank Folsom Smith ; Victor A. Lundy ; William Rupp and Joseph G.F. Farrell ; James Carl Abbott -- Mid Gulf Coast : Mark Hampton ; Gene Leedy ; William B. Harvard ; Harvard and Jolly, AIA with John Howey, project architect ; David Vernon Tudeen ; Wakeling and Levinson, Donald S. Williams, associate ; Dwight E. Holmes -- Central and Northern Florida : Lowell L. Lotspeich ; J. Don Alford ; Dan P. Branch ; Robert C. Broward ; Robert Griffith Ernest ; William Morgan

In the 25 years following the Second World War, Florida was home to the building of some remarkable and daring modern architecture. In this volume, Hochstim (history of modern architecture, U. of Miami) discusses the unique character of modern residential architecture in Florida of that time, and presents descriptions, plans, and color and black & white photographs of particular residences, organized by region. Among the 40 architects featured are several from the famed Sarasota School, including Paul Rudolph, Ralph Twitchell, Gene Leedy, and Rufus Nims. There is no subject index. Annotation ℗♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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