{"product_id":"9783038600510","title":"The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity","description":"\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the role of architecture if not to realize a shared vision of the “good life,” a vision that in the age of architectural modernism shaped—and was shaped by—a range of ideas about the home?\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Good Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Iñaki Ábalos serves as our guide for a tour of seven iconic twentieth-century homes that represent various concepts for living. Some of the homes were actually built, while others were merely planned, painted, or created as part of a film set. We see Mies van der Rohe’s \u003ci\u003eHouse with Three Patios\u003c\/i\u003e, Martin Heidegger’s cabin in the Black Forest, Picasso’s \u003ci\u003eVilla La Californie\u003c\/i\u003e in Cannes, and the New York loft that Andy Warhol called \u003ci\u003eThe Factory\u003c\/i\u003e. From the ultramodern geometric houses and gardens in Jacques Tati’s \u003ci\u003eMon Oncle\u003c\/i\u003e, we travel to the famed hobby-kit house in Buster Keaton’s \u003ci\u003eOne Week\u003c\/i\u003e and on to the sunny swimming pool and home in David Hockney’s painting \u003ci\u003eA Bigger Splash\u003c\/i\u003e. Ábalos guides readers through the key philosophical precepts that likely guided the creation of these homes, making insightful points about the relationship between ideas about a particular modern way of living and approaches to architecture and design. What he concludes is that modernism marks less a coherent triumph of positivism, as is often assumed, than a loose celebration of the radical pluralism of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating work by one of Spain’s most prominent architects, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Life\u003c\/i\u003e presents a powerful picture of the concerns that guided the course of architectural modernism.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Park Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062318186736,"sku":"9783038600510","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783038600510_p0.jpg?v=1763711770","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783038600510","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}