主要内容本书详细而全面地研究了现代住宅史,收录了所有重要的作品和那些同样重要但却尚未人所熟悉的作品。全书按照以下几个主题进行了研究:住宅艺术、现代住宅、居住机器、地点气候与文化、美国梦、斯堪的纳维亚现代主义、后现代主义住宅和现代住宅建筑的继承和革新。通过这些作品,作者向我们讲述了从19世纪末至今在建筑艺术和建筑工艺方面的创新的故事。This book gives a detailed, comprehensive treatment of the history of the modern house, covering all the key examples together with many others that are less well-known but equally important. It is organized semi-chronologically around major themes: the house as a work of art; the modern house; machines for living in; place, climate and culture; the American dream; Scandinavian modernism; the post-modern dwelling and the continuity and transformation of contemporary house architecture. Through these themes the author tells the story of innovative domestic architecture from the Arts and Crafts period in the late nineteenth century up to the present.本书目录第1章作为艺术品的住宅第2章现代住宅第3章居住的机器第4章场地,气候和文化第5章美国之梦第6章斯堪的纳维亚现代风格第7章从现代主义后期住宅到后现代主义住宅第8章继承与改造参考文献,索引,图片版权和鸣谢