EAN: 9783038600510

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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