Author: John Eng
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9780764338656
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Affordable housing for the masses has been an age-old problem that some of the best minds in the world have tried to solve. Never was it more critical than after World War II, when many cities and economies were wiped clean and the world–quite literally–needed to be rebuilt. It was during this time that modern ideas led the way to the future. Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles touches on the history of modern architecture and explores five housing tracts built between 1948 and 1964. Through these unique tracts, we gain an understanding of what the postwar climate was like and learn why modern houses still remain relevant today as new homeowners are drawn to their aesthetic and original homeowners continue to enjoy them more than half a century later. This engaging guide features 100+ images of interiors, exteriors, and decor and more than 40 archival images and floor plans.
Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles
Author: John Eng
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9780764338656
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Affordable housing for the masses has been an age-old problem that some of the best minds in the world have tried to solve. Never was it more critical than after World War II, when many cities and economies were wiped clean and the world–quite literally–needed to be rebuilt. It was during this time that modern ideas led the way to the future. Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles touches on the history of modern architecture and explores five housing tracts built between 1948 and 1964. Through these unique tracts, we gain an understanding of what the postwar climate was like and learn why modern houses still remain relevant today as new homeowners are drawn to their aesthetic and original homeowners continue to enjoy them more than half a century later. This engaging guide features 100+ images of interiors, exteriors, and decor and more than 40 archival images and floor plans.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9780764338656
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Affordable housing for the masses has been an age-old problem that some of the best minds in the world have tried to solve. Never was it more critical than after World War II, when many cities and economies were wiped clean and the world–quite literally–needed to be rebuilt. It was during this time that modern ideas led the way to the future. Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles touches on the history of modern architecture and explores five housing tracts built between 1948 and 1964. Through these unique tracts, we gain an understanding of what the postwar climate was like and learn why modern houses still remain relevant today as new homeowners are drawn to their aesthetic and original homeowners continue to enjoy them more than half a century later. This engaging guide features 100+ images of interiors, exteriors, and decor and more than 40 archival images and floor plans.
Besting the Tract Home
Author: Thomas Clayton Plewe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Tract housing has earned its position as the overwhelmingly dominant paradigm of home building and ownership in America because it's such an efficient and therefore cost-effective system. Custom-designed housing has provable benefits over a one size-fits-all approach, but has remained unreachable for the vast majority of home buyers (or at the very least not worth it) due to the price/time/hassle disadvantage of its inefficient production systems. In attempting to make customized housing competitive with the tract home on a price/time/hassle graph, this thesis searches for efficiency through using bricolage; nonstandard, ambiguous components; the principles of object-oriented programming; and the consumer-centric standard practices of e-commerce. A paradigm and accompanying software are created to allow a custom house to be designed in hours rather than months, enabling architects to design by arranging pre-designed multi-room components, as selected from a searchable database, into a single structure that uniquely fits a client's needs. Sample houses are designed and economic estimates are made to gauge the potential competitiveness of such a system with tract housing, as well as the system's potential effect on the overall economy of architecture.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Tract housing has earned its position as the overwhelmingly dominant paradigm of home building and ownership in America because it's such an efficient and therefore cost-effective system. Custom-designed housing has provable benefits over a one size-fits-all approach, but has remained unreachable for the vast majority of home buyers (or at the very least not worth it) due to the price/time/hassle disadvantage of its inefficient production systems. In attempting to make customized housing competitive with the tract home on a price/time/hassle graph, this thesis searches for efficiency through using bricolage; nonstandard, ambiguous components; the principles of object-oriented programming; and the consumer-centric standard practices of e-commerce. A paradigm and accompanying software are created to allow a custom house to be designed in hours rather than months, enabling architects to design by arranging pre-designed multi-room components, as selected from a searchable database, into a single structure that uniquely fits a client's needs. Sample houses are designed and economic estimates are made to gauge the potential competitiveness of such a system with tract housing, as well as the system's potential effect on the overall economy of architecture.
The Best of Comix Book
Author: Denis Kitchen
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1616552581
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In 1974, legendary Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee approached underground pioneer Denis Kitchen and offered a way for them to collaborate. Their resulting series was called Comix Book and featured work by many of the top underground cartoonists including Joel Beck, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Harvey Pekar, Trina Robbins, Art Spiegelman (first national appearance of Maus), Skip Williamson, and S. Clay Wilson. The Best of Comix Book showcases 150-pages of classic underground comix (printed on newsprint, as they originally appeared), many never before reprinted.
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1616552581
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In 1974, legendary Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee approached underground pioneer Denis Kitchen and offered a way for them to collaborate. Their resulting series was called Comix Book and featured work by many of the top underground cartoonists including Joel Beck, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Harvey Pekar, Trina Robbins, Art Spiegelman (first national appearance of Maus), Skip Williamson, and S. Clay Wilson. The Best of Comix Book showcases 150-pages of classic underground comix (printed on newsprint, as they originally appeared), many never before reprinted.
Blueprint Remodel
Author: Michelle Kodis
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781586853723
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The author of the Blueprint series presents a series of plans for turning theverage suburban home into a spacious and elegant domicile, usingefore-and-after photographs to show how this transformation can beccomplished at the least expense.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781586853723
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The author of the Blueprint series presents a series of plans for turning theverage suburban home into a spacious and elegant domicile, usingefore-and-after photographs to show how this transformation can beccomplished at the least expense.
The best things [sermons].
Author: Richard Newton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Year's Best Science Fiction
Author: Gardner Dozois
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312007108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
A collection of the best stories published in 1986.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312007108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
A collection of the best stories published in 1986.
Steps towards Heaven, 12 tracts
Author: Heaven
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Home truths, miscellaneous addresses and tracts
Author: John Charles Ryle (bp. of Liverpool.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Miscellaneous Tracts
Author: Thomas Osmond Summers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Best's Insurance News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Casualty insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Casualty insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description