Who Built That? Modern Houses by Didier Cornille

Who Built That? Modern Houses by Didier Cornille

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Who Built That? Modern Houses by Didier Cornille

Who Built That? Modern Houses, Didier introduces each architect, the main concepts of their work, as well as their most important projects in charming drawings and accessible text, Architects Design for Living is a fun primer for anyone interested in learning more about modern architecture. Didier's step-by-step drawings of houses ranging from Gerrit Rietveld's Schroeder House (1924) and Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye (1931) to Shigeru Ban's Cardboard House (1995) and Rem Koolhaas's Bordeaux House (1998), provide original insight into the development of the architectural concepts behind each building. Accessible to both children and adults, charming drawings are combined with informative text providing a fun primer to modern architecture.
"Like Lego, Cornille's books provide the building blocks for the designers of tomorrow to imagine and redefine the houses and skyscrapers of the future" Look/Book
Didier Cornille is a designer and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts du Mans.
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ISBN 13 9781616892630
ISBN 10 1616892633
Title Who Built That? Modern Houses
Author Didier Cornille
Series Who Built That?
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Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
Year published 2014-09-01
Number of pages 84
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.