Details: Manifesto Houses Reflect New Visions For How We Live, They Are Vehicles For Innovation, New Ideas And News Ways Of Doing Things Embodied In A Single Building. Most Houses That Are Built Over History Reflect Long Established Ideas About How To Live And How To Build, Underpinned By Prevailing Methods, Materials And Technologies, But Also Social Norms, Cultural Expectations, Economic Affordances And Political Pressures. Yet At Various Moments There Have Appeared Houses That Break With The Past And Do Something Different - Houses That Are Conceived To Reflect And Embody Whole New Theories Or Agendas, Both For Those That Relate To House Design, But Also For Architecture More Broadly. We Call These 'manifesto Houses'. This Book Brings Together Twenty Such Manifesto Houses From The History Of Architecture - Spanning The Sixteenth To The Twenty-first Centuries. Manifesto House: Buildings That Changed The Future Of Architecture Looks In Detail At The Ideas And Ambitions Embodied In Each House, And The Inspirations And Aspirations Of The Architect That Designed Them. Across The Twenty Chapters, This Book Explores The Visions For Architecture Conjured By A Diverse Range Of Architects Including Andrea Palladio, Eileen Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright, Harry Seidler, Lina Bo Bardi, Anupama Kundoo And Sou Fujimoto, Among Others-- Provided By Publisher.
