Architectural Improvisation
A History of Vermont's Design: Build Movement 1964-1977
Will be published approx. on 31. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
84 pages
978-0-934658-04-1 (ISBN)
Description
Arcitectural Improvisations examines the work of a group of architects who converged in Vermont's Mad River Valley in the mid-1960s. Lead essayist Danny Sagan traces the development of the Design/Build movement from its roots in Bauhaus theory at Yale School of Architecture in the early 1960s to the architectural manifestations of its radical aesthetic, social, and technological experimentation. An essay by historian Kevin Dann explores Vermont's draw, throughout the 20th century, on individuals seeking creative freedoms in a rural setting. The publication includes archival photographs and drawings, new architectural photographs, and documentary materials that explicate the design-builders' theory, process, and resulting structures. The text and illustrations come together in a stunning celebration of the Design/Build movement.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Burlington
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
color and b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-934658-04-1 (9780934658041)
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JANIE COHEN is an art historian and director of the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont. DANNY SAGAN, Yale Arch. '92, is assistant professor of architecture at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, where he teaches design/build. KEVIN DANN, historian and author, currently teaches in the department of history at SUNY Plattsburgh. His books include Lewis Creek Lost and Found (UPNE, 2001).