The Shingle Style Today: Or The Historian's Revenge - Softcover

Vincent Scully

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807607606 ISBN 13: 9780807607602

Publisher: George Braziller Inc., 2003

Synopsis

Distinguished by long, sloping gables, horizontal lines, and a continuous shingle covering on the exterior, the Shingle Style's essential objective was the creation of expanding, flowing space.

The Shingle Style embodied intellectual pluralism and cultural democracy―ideals fundamental to American belief and developed quickly and richly. After a period of reaction against the Shingle Style, it was revitalized, finding its first fully renewed expression in 1959 in a design for a beach house by Robert Venturi. Vincent Scully details this reemergence, revealing the complex and crucial role of influence in the shaping of this movement. 134 black-and-white illustrations

About this title

About the Author:

Vincent Scully has been widely honored as one of the most gifted historians and critics of architecture. He is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Miami. Other publications include The Shingle Style Today (2003) and Frank Lloyd Wright (1960).

About this edition

• Publisher: George Braziller Inc.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0807607606
• ISBN 13: 9780807607602
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 118