The American Idea of Home - Bernard Friedman

The American Idea of Home

Conversations about Architecture and Design
Buch | Hardcover
246 Seiten
2017
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-1286-5 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
Wide-ranging interviews with leading architectural thinkers, including Thom Mayne, Richard Meier, Robert Venturi, Paul Goldberger, Robert Ivy, Denise Scott Brown, Kenneth Frampton, and Robert A. M. Stern, spotlight some of the most significant issues in a
“Home is an idea,” Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, “a story we tell ourselves about who we are and who and what we want closest in our midst.” In The American Idea of Home, documentary filmmaker Bernard Friedman interviews more than thirty leaders in the field of architecture about a constellation of ideas relating to housing and home. The interviewees include 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 legendary architects such as Denise Scott Brown, Charles Gwathmey, Kenneth Frampton, and Robert A. M. Stern.

The American idea of home and the many types of housing that embody it launch lively, wide-ranging conversations about some of the most vital and important issues in architecture today. The topics that Friedman and his interviewees discuss illuminate five overarching themes: the functions and meanings of home; history, tradition, and change in residential architecture; activism, sustainability, and the environment; cities, suburbs, and regions; and technology, innovation, and materials. Friedman frames the interviews with an extended introduction that highlights these themes and helps readers appreciate the common concerns that underlie projects as disparate as Katrina cottages and Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian houses. Readers will come away from these thought-provoking interviews with an enhanced awareness of the “under the hood” kinds of design decisions that fundamentally shape our ideas of home and the dwellings in which we live.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Einführung Meghan Daum
Verlagsort Austin, TX
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 739 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-4773-1286-2 / 1477312862
ISBN-13 978-1-4773-1286-5 / 9781477312865
Zustand Neuware
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