DI Library: Style Guide: Midcentury Modernism: Precedents

Eames House (Residential, Midcentury Modern)

Eames House: Charles and Ray Eames by James Steele
Call Number: NA 7238 .L6S735 2002
Building: Eames House (aka Case Study House #8)
Location: Pacific Palisades, California
Architect: Charles and Ray Eames
Time period: 1949
Style: Modernism, Midcentury Modern
The World of Charles and Ray Eames by Catherine Ince (Editor) with Lotte Johnson
Call Number: NK 1412 .E18 A4 2016
Explores the era-defining work of the Eames Office, a laboratory active for over four decades, where the Eameses and their collaborators produced a vast array of pioneering and influential projects from architecture, furniture and product design to film, photography, multi-media installation and exhibitions, as well as new models for arts education.
Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention by Donald Albrecht
Call Number: NK 1412 .E18 W6 1997
Examines the Eameses' projects in the contexts of science, corporate patronage, and politics as well as those of modern design, architecture, and art.
An Eames Anthology: Articles, Film Scripts, Interviews, Letters, Notes, Speeches by Charles Eames; Ray Eames; Daniel Ostroff (Editor)
Call Number: NK 1412 .E18 E26 2015

Room 606 of the SAS House (Hospitality, Midcentury Modernism)

Room 606: The SAS House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen by Michael Sheridan
Call Number: NA 1223 .J3S44 2003
Building: Room 606 of the SAS House
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Architect: Arne Jacobsen
Time period: 1960
Style: Mid-Century Modern, Scandinavian Modern
Arne Jacobsen: Absolutely Modern by edited by Michael Juul Holm, Kjeld Kjeldsen and Tine Vindfeld
Call Number: NA 1223 .J3 A4 2002
Essays on the work of Arne Jacobsen.

Sunnylands (Residential, Midcentury Modern

Sunnylands: Art and Architecture of the Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage, California by David G. De Long (Editor)
Call Number: N 5220 .A64 S86 2010
Building: Sunnylands
Location: Rancho Mirage, California
Architect: A. Quincy Jones
Time period: early 1960s
Style: Mid-Century Modern

More 20th-Century Precedents

Key Buildings from Prehistory to the Present: Plans, Sections and Elevations (ebook) by Andrew Ballantyne
Also available in print in the DI Library. Digital images and plans are available in the ebook and on CD in the library.
Key Buildings of the 20th Century: Plans, Sections, and Elevations by Richard Weston
Call Number: NA 2705 .W44 2010
Features projects from throughout the 20th century. Includes a CD with digital images and plans.
Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations by Colin Davies
Call Number: NA 7126 .D38 2006
Features single-family houses from throughout the 20th century. Includes a CD with digital images and plans.
Key Interiors Since 1900 by Graeme Brooker
Call Number: NA 2850 .B758 2013
Focuses on commercial, residential and institutional interiors designed for existing buildings
Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations by Hilary French
Call Number: NA 7126 .F74 2008
Features multi-family housing from throughout the 20th century. Includes a CD with digital images and plans.
Sir Banister Fletcher's Global History of Architecture by Murray Fraser (Editor)
Call Number: Reference - NA 200 .F63 2020
Explains architectural styles and traditions within their historical and technological context, describes thousands of major buildings from around the world, and includes over 2,200 photographs, plans, and drawings. Ebook also available through Bloomsbury Architecture Library (login required).
Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand by Simon Unwin
Call Number: NA 680 .U59 2015
Includes detailed case studies of a Lutheran church, the Vitra Fire Station, an art gallery, the Thermal Baths bathing complex in Vals, Mies' Barcelona Pavilion, and houses from the 1920s to the 2000s.