{"product_id":"the-american-idea-of-home-conversations-about-architecture-and-design-hardback-9781477312865","title":"The American Idea of Home; Conversations About Architecture and Design (Hardback) 9781477312865","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe American Idea of Home\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConversations About Architecture and Design\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBernard Friedman (Author), Meghan Daum (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477312865, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 May 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e246 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.739 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eThe American Idea of Home\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword: No Place Like It by Meghan Daum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction by Bernard Friedman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1: The Functions and Meanings of Home \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRichard Meier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrant Hildebrand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWitold Rybczynski\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLester Walker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSarah Susanka\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBarbara Winslow and Max Jacobson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHadley Arnold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2: History, Tradition, Change \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKenneth Frampton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLee Mindel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEric Owen Moss\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert A. M. Stern\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSam Watters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDouglas Garofalo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTracy Kidder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 3: Activism, Sustainability, Environment \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarianne Cusato\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrew Freear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCameron Sinclair\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Ivy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharles Gwathmey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 4: Cities, Suburbs, Regions \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaul Goldberger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJeremiah Eck\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTom Kundig\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElizabeth Plater-Zyberk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid Salmela\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 5: Technology, Innovation, Materials \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToshiko Mori\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreg Lynn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThom Mayne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLorcan O'Herlihy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotography Credits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589119897880,"sku":"9781477312865","price":21.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-american-idea-of-home-conversations-about-architecture-and-design-hardback-9781477312865","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}