The modernist home. txt
Tim Benton, Victoria and Albert Museum.
- 96 p. : ill. ; photo. ; col. ; 22 cm. book
Introduction -- Art and life : house and home -- Women as creator -- The heroism of modern life -- Modernism and modernity -- Modernist ideas -- Structural rationalism -- Functionalism -- The zeitgeist -- Interpenetration and a new sense of space -- The modernist client -- The rise of modernism -- The avant-garde and their houses -- The Bauhaus -- International Modernism -- Housing the masses -- Weissenhof Siedlung -- Promoting Modernism -- The warming of modernism -- Modernism on trial -- Further reading -- Index --
Reveals the results of the challenge to fit utipian modernist principles to day-to-day living. This book dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, modernizing the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural light, and providing balconies and terraces for sun-worship and sleeping in the open air.
9781851774760 1851774769
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