Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties: 64 Designs by Neutra, Gropius, Breuer, Stone and Others
By James Ford and Katherine Morrow Ford
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DOVER BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
ALADDIN BUILT IN A DAY
HOUSE CATALOG, 1917, The Aladdin Co. (28591-X)
HISTORIC MANHATTAN APARTMENT HOUSES, Andrew Alpern. (28872-2)
AIA ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE TO NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES, LONG ISLAND, The American Inst. of Architects, Long Island Chapter, and The Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. (26946-9)
BADGER’S ILLUSTRATED CATALOG OF CAST-IRON ARCHITECTURE, Daniel D. Badger. (24223-4)
BENNETT’S SMALL HOUSE CATALOG, 1920, Ray H. Bennett Lumber Co., Inc. (27809-3)
BICKNELL’S VICTORIAN BUILDINGS, A. J. Bicknell. (23904-7)
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CONSTRUCTION & ARCHITECTURE, Somers Clarke and R. Engelbach. (26485-8)
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY HOUSE DESIGNS, William T. Comstock. (28186-8)
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, Clarence Cook. (28586-3)
GREAT BUILDINGS OF BOSTON, George M. Cushing, Jr. (24219-6)
THE ARCHITECTURAL PLATES FROM THE ENCYCLOPEDIE,
Denis Diderot. (27954-5)
THE ARCHITECTURE OF COUNTRY HOUSES, Andrew J. Downing. (22003-6)
VICTORIAN COTTAGE RESIDENCES, Andrew J. Downing. (24078-9)
PRINCIPLES OF VICTORIAN DECORATIVE DESIGN, Christopher Dresser. (28900-1)
PALLADIO’S ARCHITECTURE AND ITS INFLUENCE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE, Joseph C. Farber and Henry Hope Reed. (23922-5)
CAST-IRON ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK, Margot Gayle and Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. (22980-7)
EARLY ILLUSTRATIONS AND VIEWS OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE, E. V. Gillon, Jr. (22750-2)
VICTORIAN HOUSES: A TREASURY OF LESSER-KNOWN EXAMPLES, Edmund Gillon and Clay Lancaster. (22966-1)
BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK: A PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE, Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. and Henry Hope Reed. (25698-7)
PHILADELPHIA THEATERS, Irvin R. Glazer. (27833-6)
117 HOUSE DESIGNS OF THE 20s, Gordon-Van Tine Co. (26959-0)
FORM, FUNCTION, AND DESIGN, Paul Jacques Grillo. (20182-1)
THE DECORATIVE DESIGNS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, David A. Hanks. (40730-6)
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S FALLINGWATER: THE HOUSE AND ITS HISTORY, Donald Hoffmann. (27430-6)
UNDERSTANDING FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S ARCHITECTURE, Donald Hoffmann. (28364-X)
HOLLY’S PICTURESQUE COUNTRY SEATS, Henry Hudson Holly. (27856-5)
ORNAMENTAL CARPENTRY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY HOUSES, Ben Karp. (24144-0)
EARLY DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF CONNECTICUT, J. Frederick Kelly. (21136-3)
THE CITY OF TOMORROW AND ITS PLANNING, Le Corbusier. (Available in U.S. only.) (25332-5)
AMERICAN VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE, Arnold Lewis, Keith Morgan (eds.). (23177-1)
THE OPULENT INTERIORS OF GILDED AGE: ALL 203 PHOTOGRAPHS FROM ARTISTIC HOUSES,
WITH NEW TEXT, Arnold Lewis, James Turner, and Steven McQuillin. (25250-7)
THE ARCHITECTURE OF MCKIM, MEAD & WHITE IN PHOTOGRAPHS, PLANS AND ELEVATIONS, McKim, Mead, and White. (26556-0)
THE BROWN DECADES: A STUDY OF THE ARTS IN AMERICA, 1865—1895, Lewis Mumford. (20200-3)
STICKS AND STONES, Lewis Mumford. (20202-X)
AMERICAN VICTORIAN COTTAGE HOMES, Palliser, Palliser & Co. (26506-4)
EMPIRE STYLEBOOK OF INTERIOR DESIGN: ALL 72 PLATES FROM THE RECUEIL DE DECORATIONS INTERIEURES
WITH NEW ENGLISH TEXT, Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine. (26754-7)
PERSPECTIVE IN ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING: AN UNABRIDGED REPRINT OF THE ENGLISH-AND-LATIN EDITION OF THE 1693 PERSPECTIVA PICTORUM ET ARCHITECTORUM,
Andrea Pozzo. (25855-6)
SEARS, ROEBUCK CATALOG OF HOUSES, 1926: AN UNABRIDGED REPRINT, Sears, Roebuck and Co. (26709-1)
THE FIVE BOOKS OF ARCHITECTURE, Sebastiano Serlio. (24349-4)
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY HOUSES, COTTAGES AND VILLAS: FLOOR PLANS AND LINE ILLUSTRATIONS FOR 118 HOMES FROM SHOPPELL’S CATALOGS, R. W. Shoppell et al. (24567-5)
SLOAN’S VICTORIAN BUILDINGS, Samuel Sloan. (24009-6)
MORE CRAFTSMAN HOMES, Gustav Stickley. (24252-8)
PLANTATIONS OF THE CAROLINA Low COUNTRY, Samuel Gaillard Stoney. (26089-5)
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN IDEA, Louis H. Sullivan. (20281-X)
KINDERGARTEN CHATS AND OTHER WRITINGS, Louis Sullivan. (23812-1)
LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE, VOLS. I & II, Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Two-volume set (25520-4, 25521-2)
COUNTRY AND SUBURBAN HOMES OF THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL PERIOD, H. V. von Holst. (24373-7)
CALIFORNIA BUNGALOWS OF THE TWENTIES, Henry L. Wilson. (27507-8)
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This Dover edition, first published in 1989, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc., New York, in 1940 under the title The Modern House in America.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ford, James, 1884–1944.
[Modern house in America]
Classic modern homes of the thirties : 64 designs by Neutra,
Gropius, Breuer, Stone, and others / James Ford and Katherine
Morrow Ford.
p. cm.
Reprint. Originally published: The modern house in America. New York, N.Y. : Architectural Book Pub., c 1940.
Includes index.
9780486138619
1. Architecture, Domestic—United States—Designs and plans. 2. Architecture, Modern—20th century—United States—Designs and plans. 3. International style (Architecture)—United States. I. Ford, Katherine Morrow, 1905–. II. Title.
NA7208.F6 1989
728.3’7’0973—dc 19
88-38596
CIP
Table of Contents
DOVER BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
Title Page
Copyright Page
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATED PRESENTATION OF HOUSES
INDEX
PREFACE
THERE is abundant evidence of a rapidly developing interest in the new architecture—known as modern. Recent polls by magazines (e.g. Life
and the Architectural Forum
) make this clear. Also it is certain that increasing space would not long have been given to homes of modern design in the daily press, architectural and building journals, women’s magazines, and periodicals in the field of home decoration in the absence of a sustained and developing popular demand.
This does not represent a trivial change in public taste, nor is it essentially a fad. The trend is not superficial but fundamental, not local but general. Its development is the natural result of the profound social and economic changes which have been running their progressive course within the past century. Above all it is a logical outgrowth of a new perspective upon human interests and values.
The purpose of this volume is threefold: to call attention to a movement which we believe to be of deep significance both to architecture and to life; to show it in its international perspective but with reference to America’s contribution; and to make some of its potentialities known to home builders as well as to architects. Modern residential architecture has been treated as organic planning integrated with suitable design. This collection is essentially American, not merely because limited to houses built in this country, but because virtually every house presented shows some degree of American originality.
In the illustrated pages which follow, selection has been made of houses which exemplify the purposes and spirit, as well as the techniques, of modern architecture. Houses in which the forms, characteristic of modern, have served merely as a veneer or style, to hide a traditional plan, have been excluded as modernistic,
as distinguished from true or organic modern. Limitations of space, however, forced from the very outset the elimination of many excellent examples of new architectural design and of functional planning—houses that we would have liked to include. It was decided to omit all of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, because illustrated accounts of the latter are available to the public in other volumes. On the other hand catholicity of representation seemed desirable in order that the regionalism of modern might be apparent, as well as the wide variety of interpretations, materials, and costs. A few of the earlier examples of the so-called international style
were retained to reveal trends and transitional stages. We believe study of this collection by dates or sequence as well as by regions and by architects, to be profitable.
Examination of each house plan, in conjunction with the brief statement which accompanies it,