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Framework Houses by Hilla Becher and Bernd Becher (2000, Hardcover)

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Bernd and Hilla Becher have profoundly influenced the international photography world over the past several decades. In 1790 a law was enacted to save wood for iron production by preventing its excessive use for house-building.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-100262024993

ISBN-139780262024990

eBay Product ID (ePID)1786215

Product Key Features

Book TitleFramework Houses

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicBuildings / Residential, General

IllustratorYes

GenreArchitecture, Photography

AuthorHilla Becher, Bernd Becher

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight57 Oz

Item Length9.9 in

Item Width9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-064599

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal728/.37/0943551

SynopsisA new edition of the first book by photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, featuring framework houses of the Siegen region of Germany. Bernd and Hilla Becher have profoundly influenced the international photography world over the past several decades. Their unique genre, which falls somewhere between topological documentation and conceptual art, is in line with the aesthetics of such early-twentieth-century masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, Germaine Krull, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and August Sander. Framework Houses, their first and most famous book, was originally published in Germany in 1977 and quickly went out of print. This new edition of that classic work takes advantage of reproduction and printing technologies not available in 1977. Most of the houses in the book were built between 1870 and 1914 in the Siegen region of Germany, one of the oldest iron-producing areas of Europe. The houses were built by immigrants who came to work in the mines or blast furnace plants. In 1790 a law was enacted to save wood for iron production by preventing its excessive use for house-building. The law prescribed the amount of lumber structurally required and forbade the construction of elements serving only ornamental purposes. It also specified the maximum strength for beams, sills, cornerposts, and studs. A functional framework, combined with neoclassical proportions, determined the new type of house; it was also applied to other buildings such as barns, churches, schools, inns, shops, factories, and mine structures.* Not for sale in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Austria, A new edition of the first book by photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, featuring framework houses of the Siegen region of Germany., A scandalously good look at life lived in the lap of Luxury Sexy, smart New Yorker Logan Barnes knew how to take what he wanted to get where he wanted to be. But you can't win the girl, make the money and live the high life without picking up enemies along the way... There's only one enemy who matters, and that's the friend Logan betrayed years ago - Nicolo Flores. He got mad, but better still he got even, waiting in the wings to pull the plug on Logan and see his fortunes come crashing down. Now Logan's back, in London with a perfect wife, perfect family, and the perfect jewel to crown his rebuilt hotel empire: a stunning island getaway for the truly über-rich. Nicolo's crazy to find a way to crush him again - but with gambling, addiction, sex and scandal all knocking on the Barnes' family door, maybe they'll destroy themselves before he even has a chance to...

LC Classification NumberTH4809.G3B43 2001