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Minnesota Modern: Architecture and Life at Midcentury by Millett
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- Narrative Type
- History
- Type
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- ISBN
- 9780816683291
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816683298
ISBN-13
9780816683291
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211326632
Product Key Features
Book Title
Minnesota Modern : Architecture and Life at Midcentury
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
History / Contemporary (1945-), General, Regional, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
63.4 Oz
Item Length
11.5 in
Item Width
9.4 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
LCCN
2015-026158
Reviews
"An entertaining and beautifully illustrated stroll through an era."-- Rochester Post-Bulletin "It is possible that an old house or building still stands in your neighborhood because Larry Millett influenced someone to save it. The architectural historian's work catalogs the many architectural treasures Minnesota has lost to the wrecking ball and inspires a preservation movement determined to hang on to the ones we have left. "-- MinnPost "Millett has created the definitive book on the midcentury era in Minnesota, including residential, public and commercial designs."-- MinnPost "I found Larry Millett's new book Minnesota Modern. . . an engrossing account of our social and cultural past. And a wonderful tour of the enviable midcentury residences around us."--Chris Lee, Midwest Home "Comprehensive and meticulously researched."-- Minnesota History "Millett's book is a combination architectural guidebook and coffee table tome."-- Middle West Review, "An entertaining and beautifully illustrated stroll through an era."-- Rochester Post-Bulletin "Millett has created the definitive book on the midcentury era in Minnesota, including residential, public and commercial designs."-- MinnPost "An engrossing account of our social and cultural past. And a wonderful tour of the enviable midcentury residences around us."--Chris Lee, Midwest Home "Comprehensive and meticulously researched."-- Minnesota History
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
720.9776/0904
Table Of Content
Contents Prologue: A New World 1. The Modern Age Midcentury Modern Houses, 1938-1950 Benjamin and Gertrude Lippincott House Gerald and Ruth Buetow House Dr. Clarence E. and Ruth Arlander House 2. Corporations and Commerce Midcentury Modern Houses, 1952-1954 S. Pearl and Millicent Elam House Dr. Harvey Nelson House 3. Entertaining on the Road Midcentury Modern Houses, 1955 Donald and Hilda Haarstick House June Halvorson Alworth (later June and Robert Starkey) House 4. Architecture of the Public Realm Midcentury Modern Houses, 1956-1957 George and Annirene Buck House William and Frances Shepherd House 5. Modern Faith Midcentury Modern Houses, 1958-1961 Alcoa "Care-free" House Benjamin Gingold House Richard and Dorothy Babcock House 6. The Midcentury Home Epilogue: The Midcentury Legacy Acknowledgments Notes Index
Synopsis
From the genteel elegance of Christ Lutheran Church in Minneapolis to the lowbrow wonder of Porky's Drive-in in St. Paul, the Twin Cities and other Minnesota communities are nothing short of a living museum of midcentury modernism, the new style of architecture that swept through much of America from 1945 to the mid-1960s. Renowned Minnesota architecture critic and historian Larry Millett conducts an eye-opening, spectacularly illustrated tour of this rich and varied landscape. A history lesson as entertaining as it is enlightening, Minnesota Modern provides a close-up view of a style that penetrated the social, political, and cultural machinery of the times. Extending from modest suburban ramblers and ranch houses to the grandest public and commercial structures, midcentury modernism expressed new ways of thinking about how to live, work, and play in communities that sprang up as thousands of military members returned from World War II. Millett describes the style's sources in the work of European masters like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, as well as the midwestern innovations of Frank Lloyd Wright, and its refinement at the University of Minnesota under the guidance of Ralph Rapson and other modernists. He shows us its applications in twelve midcentury homes in Minnesota and takes us through its many permutations in sites as different as Barry Byrne's St. Columba Catholic Church in St. Paul and Eero Saarinen's sprawling IBM complex in Rochester. This is Minnesota modern at its historic best, a firsthand, in-depth history of a singularly American sensibility and aesthetic writ large on the midwestern region., From the genteel elegance of Christ Lutheran Church in Minneapolis to the lowbrow wonder of Porky's Drive-in in St. Paul, the Twin Cities and other Minnesota communities are nothing short of a living museum of midcentury modernism, the new style of architecture that swept through much of America from 1945 to the mid-1960s. Renowned Minnesota archit
LC Classification Number
NA730.M6M48 2015
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