Tremaine houses : one family's patronage of domestic architecture in midcentury America /

This volume examines the patronage of modern architecture that the Tremaine family sustained for nearly four decades in the mid-twentieth century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Welter, Volker (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Tremaines, Architectural Patronage, and the Contemporary House
  • Brunninghausen, Montecito, California, 1936-38, by Lutah Maria Riggs
  • The Warren and Katharine Tremaine House, Montecito, California, 1945-48, by Richard Neutra
  • The Tremaine Beach House, 1946-48: from Lutah Maria Riggs and Arvin Shaw to Oscar Niemeyer
  • Painting toward Postwar Architecture, 1948-49
  • Images of the Vernacular Architecture -Dreams of Domesticity, 1949-77
  • Architecture after the Tremaines
  • Appendix A: Chronology of Selected Tremaine Houses and Architectural Projects
  • Appendix B: Selected Architects and Designers Who Worked for the Tremaines
  • Appendix C: Selected Tremaine Architectural Projects (Built), Designs (Not Built), and Exhibitions, 1940s-1950s (Gantt Chart).