VACATION HOUSES: AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY
Karl Kaspar
Karl Kaspar: VACATION HOUSES: AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. Parallel texts in English and German. First edition. Quarto. Tan cloth covered boards stamped in orange. Photo illustrated dust jacket. 168 pp. 50 houses presented in illustrated case studies. Page edges lightly and uniformly sunned. Jacket lightly edgeworn with a split at the spine crown. A very good hardcover book in a very good dust jacket.
8.75 x 11.25 hardcover book with 168 pages featuring well-illustrated case studies of 50 vacation houses designed by leading modern architects, circa 1966. Beautifully-printed collection [printed in West Germany] with some unusual design samples. Highly recommended.
- Introduction
- Examples
- One-story houses with rectangular or square ground plans
- Variations on L- and U-shaped plans
- Houses with gallery bedrooms or sleeping space
- Two-story houses with completely or partially open ground floors
- Houses with fan-shaped or cruciform ground plans
- Single- and multistory houses with tent, pyramid or complex roof forms
- Houses of suspended or cantilevered construction
- List of Architects
Features work by Alfred Altherr, Ernst Althoff, Eduardo Anahory, Architects’ Co-Partnership, Atelier 5, Jean Aubert, Herbert Beckhard, Peter Blake [x2], Marcel Breuer, Robert C. Broward, Hans Busso Von Busse, Luigi Camenisch, Tita Carloni, Heikki & Mirja Castrén, Alan Chapman, Serge Chermayeff, José Antonio Coderech, A. Courtois, Knud Fris, Henry P. Glass, Marcel Gogois, Anders Grum, Charles Gwathmey, Ole Hagen, Richard Henderson, Fred Hochstrasser, Robert Hofer, Martti & Marjatta Jaatinen, Gunnar Jensen, Erkii Kairamo, Lawrence Shannon & Underwood, André Lefévre, Patrick Litchfield, Wendell H. Lovett, Max Lüscher-Scolari, Nagelo Mangiarotti [x2], Robert B. Marquis, Giulio Minoletti, Finn Monies, Bruno Morassutti [x3], Elmar Moltke Nielsen, Eliot Noyes, I. M. Pei, Rolf Rave, Affonso Eduardo Reidy, George T. Rockrise, Bertel Saarnio, Y. Salier, H. Van Schayck, Harry Seidler, Charles S. Sink, Osmo Sipari, Hans Pedar Sølvsten, Harbo Sølvsten, Cclaude Stoller, Roy Stout, Keijo Ström, Bruno Tinhofer, Olavi Tuomisto, Manuel Valls, Werner & Grete Wirsing, and Vilhelm Wohlert.