Volume 43, Number 11 · June 20, 1996
All About Eames
By Martin Filler
Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century
by Pat Kirkham
MIT Press, 486 pp., $55.00
Eames House: Charles and Ray Eames
by James Steele
Phaidon Press/Chronicle Books, 60 pp., $29.95
Eames House
by Marilyn Neuhart, by John Neuhart
Berlin: Ernst und Sohn, 64 pp., DM 58.00
The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, Volumes I-IV
Pyramid Home Video, $39.95 each
Since transformations in architectural style often follow major economic, social, political, or technological upheavals, it is not surprising that the building art in this century has been so marked by change. And certainly few periods in modern history were more marked by a conjunction of sudden changes than the years just after World War II. With America's industries reinvigorated by the all-out military effort and its primacy on the international scene confirmed by victory, peace brought an urgent need for new civilian and commercial construction. For fifteen years there had been an architectural hiatus in the United States, imposed by the Great Depression and protracted by the wartime ban on all non-essential building.
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