ABSTRACT
This book provides a comprehensive survey of Modern Movement houses constructed with steel frames. Arranged chronologically and thematically, it traces the development over the last seventy years of steel houses in Europe, Australia and the United States, with special reference to London, Paris, Sydney and Los Angeles and to the work elsewhere of Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Jean Prouve. Examples of steel houses from around the world demonstrate that steel structures can provide a better quality of life within a cleaner, lighter home environment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |1 pages
Part 1: The Modern Steel House 1929-1939
chapter 1|9 pages
Two Modern Steel Houses
chapter 2|6 pages
The International Style
chapter 3|16 pages
Exhibition and innovation
part |1 pages
Part 2: The Modern Steel House in America
chapter 1|7 pages
Arts and Architecture
chapter 2|16 pages
Los Angeles in the 1940s
chapter 3|12 pages
Chicago in the 1940s
chapter 4|8 pages
San Francisco in the 1950s
chapter 5|17 pages
Los Angeles in the 1950s
chapter 6|22 pages
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
part |3 pages
Part 3: The Modern Steel House in Europe and Australia
chapter 1|10 pages
Europe and Australia in the 1950s
chapter 2|10 pages
England in the 1960s
chapter 3|14 pages
The influence of Chicago in the 1970s
chapter 4|9 pages
The influence of California in the 1970s
chapter 5|14 pages
Australia in the 1980s
chapter 6|16 pages
Prefabrication in the 1980s
part |2 pages
Part 4: Four Responses