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049			_aCARIBET
050			_aNA737.K616 _bP36 2025
100			_aPancorbo Crespo, Luis _9303017
245			_aA. Lawrence Kocher : _bAmerican architect. / _cLuis Pancorbo Crespo, Ph.D., Inés Martín Robles, Ph.D. _htxt
250			_aFirst edition
264			_aSan Francisco, California : _bApplied Research and Design Publishing, _c2025.
300			_a379 p. : _bill. ; col. ; plans ; _c29 cm. _fbook
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediaded _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 375-378).
505			_aForeword A. Lawrence Kocher : American Architect By Edward R Ford 6 -- Introduction From Disassembly to Display : The Aluminaire House ‘s Desert Resurrection By Leo Marmol 8 -- 1930 Aluminaire House : The Migrating Villa 11 -- 1920-1929 Before Aluminaire : In Search of a New American Architecture 61 -- 1931-1933 The Experimental Weekend House and Parallel Experiences 99 -- 1933-1935 Building on Two Coasts : from the Subsistence Farmsteads to the Kocher – Samson Building 149 -- 1933-1935 Building on Two Coasts : From the Subsistence Farmsteads to the Kocher – Samson Building 149 -- 1935-1941 The Carnegie Tech and Black Mountain College Years 203 -- 1941-1969 Innovation and Tradition : Form Back Mountain to Williamsburg 253 -- Conclusions and Notes on the Graphic Reconstruction 311 -- Bibliography 375 -- Illustration Credits 379 --
520			_aThe book offers a new conceptual and historical framework for the study of Kocher's body of work that relocates it within the history of American modern architecture. Kocher's work as an independent designer has gotten very little critical attention. The book devotes several chapters to this little-known part of Kocher's practice and resituates him as one of the main protagonists in the history of American Modern architecture and reveals the profound relationship between Kocher's designs and existing American domestic traditions. Kocher' concept of the vernacular included not only the different residential types of Colonial and Early Republican America, but most importantly, other kinds of transitional dwelling artifacts. This book tries to provide evidence about Kocher's intention of using these vernacular artifacts, alongside the concepts of prefabrication and industrialization inherent to them as a base to construct a new national architecture in which to graft the European modernist tradition. Kocher's ideological position and his continuous eagerness for experimentation transformed him into an atypical practitioner. While many of his contemporaries were purely design focused, he established a very avant-garde symbiosis among his three main endeavors: his work as an educator, as a scholar, and as a practitioner. Some of his architectural works can be seen as manifestos that would later further develop in the articles of Architectural Record. Some others are the direct and material demonstrations of industrial systems and materials previously explored in his articles. Even other works are conceived and executed as part of a pedagogical activity. It is rare to find an architectural design in Kocher's body of work that does not demonstrate a multitude of interconnections among his pedagogy, his editorial work, and his scholarship.
600		0	_aKocher, A. Lawrence (Alfred Lawrence) _9303018
650		0	_aArchitecture _954081 _xHistory _y20th century _zUnited States
650		0	_aArchitect-designed houses _9196753 _zUnited States
700			_aMartín Robles, Inés _9303019
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