{"product_id":"american-masterworks-the-twentiethcentury-house-9780847818945","title":"American Masterworks: The Twentieth-Century House","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout the twentieth century the United States has provided remarkably fertile ground for innovative residential architecture  from the Shingle Style pioneered on the East Coast in the late nineteenth century to the deconstructivist experiments in California today. Over the decades  American and international architects alike responded to this countrys rising standard of living  rapidly expanding suburbs  and receptive often liberal clients - factors that encouraged the creative use of both unorthodox building materials and mass-produced components. One chapter is devoted to each of 34 houses by such luminaries as Richard Neutra  Eliel Saarinen  Frank Lloyd Wright  Walter Gropius  Philip Johnson  Charles Moore  Louis Kahn  and Frank Gehry. Selections of the architects plans and finest freehand drawings complement the photographs in this history of exceptional American house design. The text by Kenneth Frampton explores each house in depth  discussing its context in the progression of American architecture  its role in the architects oeuvre  and its broader relationship to the history of twentieth-century American cultural and artistic movements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648182935605,"sku":"ByrdShop_0847818942","price":30.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780847818945.jpg?v=1781712112","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/american-masterworks-the-twentiethcentury-house-9780847818945","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}