About this title: Although the Sarasota school wasn't a consciously organized movement, it was an important chapter in American modernism that, unlike the earlier Bay Area school and Chicago school, has received little study or published scholarly treatment. Architect John Howey provides the first solid documentation of the Sarasota group's designs and theories. He has interviewed all of the surviving architects and original clients and has included a rich archive of photographs by Ezra Stoller, Alexandra Georges, and others whose views, particularly of the houses built between 1950 and 1960, gained world-wide ...
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Edition: 1st Ed.
Binding: Red/gilt
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780262082402ISBN:0262082403
Description: Drawings, B/W photos. Hardcover. Clean, tight, and fresh copy. Fine in fine dj. Mylar., Red/whit/blk. Quarto, 209 pp., Sarasota School of Architecture, from 1941 to 1966, founded by Ralph Twitchell in Sarasota, Florida, captured Fla. lifestyle. read more
Binding: orig. cloth
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge [MA]
Date Published: 1995
Description: Minor rubbing. A small ink mark to top page-edge. VG. 29x20cm, xiv, 209 pp., Foreword by Michael Sorkin. Introduction by Richard Guy Wilson. "The years: 1941 to 1966. The place: Sarasota, Florida. The story: a sudden burst of fresh, innovative houses by a group of Americans who caught the imagination of the international architectural community. Inflected by local climate, construction practices, regional culture, and Florida life-style, the work of the Sarasota school of architecture--founded ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780262082402ISBN:0262082403
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Quarto; 209pp indexed & illustrated plus section of color plates; Hardcover First Edition in dust jacket AS NEW, no markings, no defects, jacket very slightly shelfworn, otherwise pristine copy in every respect THIS BOOK IS HEAVY AND/OR OVERSIZE AND MAY REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGE, PARTICULARLY FOR PRIORITY OR OVERSEAS DELIVERY. read more
Description: Fine. In very good condition with cover, spine and pages clean and intact. Neatly stored. International orders via air mail except large books. read more
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