Classic Modern Homes of the
Thirties: 64 Designs by Neutra,
Gropius, Breuer, Stone and Others
(Modern House in America) by
Katherine Morrow Ford
A Streamline House Beautiful.
Splendid pictorial record of architectural style strongly influenced by
Bauhaus movement. Over 300 illustrations show interiors, exteriors.
Details on construction, site, cost, more.
Personal Review: Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties: 64
Designs by Neutra, Gropius, Breuer, Stone and Others (Modern
House in America) by Katherine Morrow Ford
In 1932, Philip Johnson and Henry Russel Hitchcock held a retrospective
of European modern architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New
York City. They coined the term "International Style" to describe this newly

emerging style. This show captured the imagination of many of the United
States' best young architects and designers. They soon began to put an
American spin on the new "International Style" of architecture.
Eight years after the MOMA show, James and Katherine Ford published,
"The Modern House in America". The purpose of the book was to draw
attention to this new style of architecture as it was being developed in the
United States. This volume was in turn republished by Dover Press in
1989 and retitled, "Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties".
This volume showcases sixty four designs by such noted architects as
Neutra, Gropius, Breuer, Shindler and Soriano. These works are shown
with 194 photographs and 128 plans and drawings. It is important to note,
these images come from a book published in 1940 and therefore lack the
precision and design values that you would find in a book published today.
This reprint is not a coffee table style of book. Its value is more historical
in nature.
What I found most interesting in this book, is to see how some of the best
homes of this period start taking on an iconic stature within a few years of
being constructed. Homes that are the subject of recently written
monographs are shown as newly built homes.
Mid-Century Modern is all the rage at the current time. There is no better
volume to give an enthusiast an understanding of what forces came
together to form this look. To really know Neutra, Schindler and Soriano,
you have to know what they were building in the late 1930's.
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