Bradbury Building, George Wyman, Los Angeles, California, 1893 — Julius Shulman
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Featherstone Young
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a view
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Museum on the Seashore, Brazil, 1951 (Project)
(Lina Bo Bardi)
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Sheats Goldstein Residence | John Lautner
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Sturges House, Frank Lloyd Wright, Brentwood, California, 1939 — Pedro E. Guerrero
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Aristide Antonas, the vertical mobile village offers temporary housing for new residential areas in Hymettus, Athens, Greece
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Colorado Cabin (by reddogphotoworks)
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section through chapel
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Added to our library
“A” was the architectural letterform of leisure building in postwar America. Eager to stake out mountain and lakeside retreats, an entire generation of high-end homebuilders and weekend handymen found the A-frame an easy and affordable home to construct; its steeply sloping triangular roof distinctive and easy to maintain )almost no exterior walls to paint!). Fueled by A-frame plans and kits, the style became something of a national craze, with tens of thousands of houses built.
Indeed, the A-frame was an icon for recreation, and acceptable form of modernism (although its origins go back thousands of years), and a convenient tool for marketing a wide range of products, including gas-powered toilets, motorcycles, and canned vegetables; Fisher-Price even made one for children. So popular on the domestic front, the A-frame was eventually adapted to other building types, from roadside restaurants to churches.
