No
image available
|
With its elegant graphics and entertaining text, Mary and Russel
Wright’s Guide to Easier Living reflects the American
popularisation of modernist architecture and design in the post-war
period. The consumer boom of the 1950s was about to begin and Wright,
an industrial designer, went on to produce a range of stylish and
practical domestic products including the American Modern
range of ceramics. This book was part of the Home Science School
extension library.
___________________________________________________________
‘Mary and Russel Wright, Guide to Easier Living, New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1951. Private Collection
|
No
image available
|
The Modern House in America documents the growth of modernist
architecture in North America from the mid-1930s to 1940. It shows
the influence of the emigré European designers who settled
there as well as regional forms. The timber houses of the San Francisco
‘Bay Area’ architects such as Hugh Stubbins (1912–)
and William Wurster (1895–1973) were widely studied in New
Zealand in the post-war period.
___________________________________________________________
James and Katherine Morrow Ford, The Modern House in America. New
York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1945. Leith St, Bliss VAW
+F |
No
image available
|
It has often been observed that the modern New Zealand ‘Group’
house of the 1950s and 60s owes much to Californian architecture
of the period. The abundance of exposed timber and new construction
techniques such as post and beam coupled with large expanses of
glass characterised modern building on both sides of the Pacific.
This catalogue for an exhibition of houses around the San Francisco
area was presented to the Library by Dr. H. D. Skinner of the Otago
Museum.
___________________________________________________________
Domestic Architecture of the San Francisco Bay Region. San Francisco
Museum of Art, 16th September to 30 October 1949. Leith St, Bliss
VAW +S
|
No
image available
|
Built in USA: Post-war Architecture was published by the
Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art
as a catalogue to a major exhibition of modernist architecture held
in 1952. Essentially Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903–1987) and
Philip Johnson (1906–2005), the Department of Architecture
and Design introduced modernist architecture into American art museums.
Hitchcock and Johnson’s earlier exhibition The International
Style (1932) gave its name to the period of consolidation of
modernism in the 1930s.
___________________________________________________________
Built in USA: Post-war Architecture. Edited by Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Private Collection
|
|