henry atterbury smith (3 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Reprint. [nice clean book, a few tiny pen-indentations on front cover, slight bends at corners of front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, line illustrations) "This outstanding book presents 500 small-home designs of the 1920s as they appeared in a major architectural publication of 1923. Many are by leading domestic architects of the period. Each design is presented in a handsome perspective drawing or photograph, along with floor plans and a description of its principal features." An unabridged reprint of the 1923 book "The Books of a Thousand Homes, Vol. I: 500 Small House Plans.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Good copy in hardcover. Boards worn through at edges, fraying to top of spine. Dust-staining to top edge of page block. 4to. No titles on brown cloth spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. 1923 Third Edition published by Home Owners Institute, Inc. Publishers & Distributors (New York). Brown boards on this hardback has some slight shelf wear to the extremities, but is overall in good condition. Stamped with its former owner, George E. Christensen. George Christensen studied architecture in the late 1940s at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), directed at that time by Mies van der Rohe, one of the pioneer masters of modern architecture. After practicing architecture in the Chicago area, he moved to the Phoenix area in 1957. After briefly working for Weaver and Drover, he founded his own practice, George Christensen and Associates, in 1958. He continued to practice architecture in the area until shortly before his death in 2003. Known for his formulation of a distinct Southwestern architecture, Christensen synthesized the traditions of modern architecture and the local vernacular to create an architectural style generated from a deep respect for the spirit of place, its landscape, and local building traditions. 323 pages. Clean interior, although some slight browning of pages. LOVE the homes depicted in these plans. Book was edited by Henry Atterbury Smith. (BR) Shelf 212.