20/20
20/20: Twenty Great Houses of the Twentieth Century
John Pardey
Lund Humphries, September 2020
Hardcover | Page Size inches | 224 pages | 150 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1848223530 | £29.95
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Ordered chronologically, and global in scope, this book provides an account of modern architecture through the prism of 20 of the most influential houses built over the past century. By telling the stories of these houses, it offers a fascinating biography of some of the greatest modern architects.
John Pardey examines the ground-breaking ideas, sensitivity to detailing and materials in houses designed by the likes of Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Giuseppe Terragni, Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames and Oscar Niemeyer, and seeks to discover what lessons they can still offer for architects practising today. John Pardey is a leading architect, the winner of national RIBA awards and the 2013 Gold Medal for Architecture in Wales, whose practice John Pardey Architects (JPA) was named one of Britain's top six residential design practices in the Sunday Times in April 2014. He is the author of Utzon: Tow Houses on Majorca (2005) and Louisiana and Beyond: the Work of Vilhelm Wohlert (2007) and contributed to Houses: Created by Peter Aldington (2016).
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