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Architecture in Play: Intimations of Modernism in Architectural Toys
Tamar Zinguer
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Description for Architecture in Play: Intimations of Modernism in Architectural Toys
Hardcover. Based on the author's thesis (Princeton University, 2006). Num Pages: 256 pages, 147 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 203 x 20. Weight in Grams: 825.
Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world. In Architecture in Play, Tamar Zinguer explores the two-hundred-year period over which such playthings have reflected changing attitudes toward form, structure, and permanence, echoing modernist experiments and stylistic inclinations in fascinating ways while also incorporating technological advances in their systems of construction. Zinguer’s history of these toys reveals broader social and economic trends from their respective periods.
Focusing on four primary building materials (wood, stone, metal, and paper), Zinguer discusses four important construction sets: Friedrich Froebel’s ... Read more
Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world. In Architecture in Play, Tamar Zinguer explores the two-hundred-year period over which such playthings have reflected changing attitudes toward form, structure, and permanence, echoing modernist experiments and stylistic inclinations in fascinating ways while also incorporating technological advances in their systems of construction. Zinguer’s history of these toys reveals broader social and economic trends from their respective periods.
Focusing on four primary building materials (wood, stone, metal, and paper), Zinguer discusses four important construction sets: Friedrich Froebel’s ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813937724
SKU
V9780813937724
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99-20
About Tamar Zinguer
Tamar Zinguer is Associate Professor at the Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.
Reviews for Architecture in Play: Intimations of Modernism in Architectural Toys
Written in a clear, readable style, refreshingly free of jargon, Architecture in Play uses a number of prominent construction toys in Europe and the United States as examples of an interconnectedness between such toys and mainstream architectural thought. Tamar Zinguer’s book broadens our understanding of the larger contextual field of architectural discourse."" Dietrich Neumann, Brown University, coeditor of Cities of ... Read more