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This fascinating lexicon examines the quixotic architectural expressionsfound on select mid-20th-century modern commercialbuildings in South Florida. Showcasing the work of 13 noted architects from Miami Beach to FortLauderdale, it highlights the playful decorative detailsand gestures--swooping overhangs, brise soleil, cheese holes and arches, andscreening--that expressed the era's shiny optimism and theregion's carefree resort culture. With brief bios of the architects and street maps pinpointing thelocation of each building, this book offers tourists, architects,history buffs, and preservationists a new context and appreciation for theseworks of art, many of which areendangered.
This fascinating lexicon examines the quixotic architectural expressionsfound on select mid-20th-century modern commercialbuildings in South Florida. Showcasing
A house by the sea should be a house of dreams. Where windows and doors are thrown open to the ocean, and gusts of cool, salty air turn us all into kids again--
This is a colourful survey that explores the diverse styles of the arbiters of modernism in Florida. As the offspring of modernism's founders, Alfonso, Gonzalez
The first book-length critical and historical account of an ultramodern architectural movement of the 1960s that advocated "living equipment" instead of buildin
Storybook style, fairy tale, Disneyesque, Hansel and Gretel-these are all synonyms for what is surely the most delightful residential style of the twentieth cen
