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THE GOOD LIFE - IÑAKI ÁBALOS KARTONIERT (TB)

What is the role of architecture if not to realize a shared vision of the "good life " a vision
that in the age of architectural modernism shaped-and was shaped by-a range of ideas about the
home? With The Good Life  Iñaki Ábalos serves as our guide for a tour of seven iconic
twentieth-century homes that represent various concepts for living. Some of the homes were
actually built  while others were merely planned  painted  or created as part of a film set. We
see Mies van der Rohe's House with Three Patios  Martin Heidegger's cabinin the Black Forest 
Picasso's Villa La Californie in Cannes  and the New York loft that Andy Warhol called the
Factory. From the ultramodern geometric houses and gardens in Jacques Tati's   Mon Oncle    we
travel to the famed hobby-kit house in Buster Keaton's   One Week   and on to the sunny
swimming pool and home in David Hockney's painting   A Bigger Splash.   Ábalos takes readers
through the key philosophical precepts that likely guided the creation of these homes  making
insightful points about the relationship between ideas about a particular modern way of living
and approaches to architecture and design. What he concludes is that modernism marks less a
coherent triumph of positivism  as is often assumed  than a loose celebration of the radical
pluralism of the twentieth century.  A fascinating work by one of Spain's most prominent
architects  this new edition presents a powerful picture of the concerns that guided the course
of architectural modernism.   Named one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2017.

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