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Article: Books.(The Modernist House)(Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work)(Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings)(Book review)
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- August 1, 2009
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Edited by Stanley Abercrombie
The Modernist House
by the editors of Phaidon Press
New York: Phaidon Press, $25
112 pages, 100 illustrations (70 color)
Here is an interesting, useful, and well priced compendium of 100 modernist houses, each represented by a single large image and brief text. Shown chronologically, they range from Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie house in Chicago and Adolf Loos's Steiner house in Vienna, both from 1910, to a 2007 house by Alvaro Siza Arquitecto in Pego, Portugal. In between, the choices include many expected icons: Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre in Paris and Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye in Poissy, ...