The Good Life - A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity

- Idioma: INGLÊS

- Tipo de Capa: BROCHURA

- Número de Páginas: 256

- Ano de Edição: 2017

- Número de Edição: 1º

- Dimensões: 20.96 x 15.88 x 1.52cm;

- ISBN: 9783038600510

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What is the role of architecture if not to realize a shared vision of the "good life," a vision that in the age of architectural modernism shaped--and was shaped by--a range of ideas about the home? With The Good Life, Iñaki Ábalos serves as our guide for a tour of seven iconic twentieth-century homes that represent various concepts for living. Some of the homes were actually built, while others were merely planned, painted, or created as part of a film set. We see Mies van der Rohe´s House with Three Patios, Martin Heidegger´s cabin in the Black Forest, Picasso´s Villa La Californie in Cannes, and the New York loft that Andy Warhol called The Factory. From the ultramodern geometric houses and gardens in Jacques Tati´s Mon Oncle, we travel to the famed hobby-kit house in Buster Keaton´s One Week and on to the sunny swimming pool and home in David Hockney´s painting A Bigger Splash. Ábalos guides readers through the key philosophical precepts that likely guided the creation of these homes, making insightful points about the relationship between ideas about a particular modern way of living and approaches to architecture and design. What he concludes is that modernism marks less a coherent triumph of positivism, as is often assumed, than a loose celebration of the radical pluralism of the twentieth century. A fascinating work by one of Spain´s most prominent architects, The Good Life presents a powerful picture of the concerns that guided the course of architectural modernism.