Alan I W Frank House: The Modernist Masterwork by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer

Alan I W Frank House: The Modernist Masterwork by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer

Alan Frank, Kenneth Frampton, Barry Bergdoll, Charles Birnbaum • Rizzoli

ISBN-10: 0847863689 · ISBN-13: 978‑0847863686 · 2019

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Dimensions: 12.3 × 10.4 × 1.1 in

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Offering a rare opportunity to explore the largest and most luxurious house designed by Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and Marcel Breuer, leading architect and furniture designer of the twentieth century, this beautifully-designed volume celebrates the Alan I W Frank House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1939-40, the house embodies the Bauhaus “total work of art” philosophy, with Gropius and Breuer having designed every aspect of the building and its site. Illustrations including new and archival images and the architects’ plans and sketches highlight an exquisite balance of proportions and colors. Accompanying essays place this house firmly within the American modernist canon just as the Bauhaus celebrated its one-hundredth anniversary.

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