Singular Vision Architecture Art Landscape

Name: Singular Vision Architecture Art Landscape
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ISBN: 9781593720438

ISBN-10: 1593720432

ISBN-13: 9781593720438

Edition: 2012

Authors: Tom Armstrong

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After a fire destroyed his colonial revival house on Fisher's Island, Tom Armstrong and his wife commissioned Thomas Phifer and Partners to design a spectacular modernist steel and glass house on the same site, fulfilling Mr. Armstrong's dream of living in a garden surrounded by art. Beginning with the first house, this book takes us through the fire, the selection of an architect, the building of the new house, and the acquisition of furnishings and art. Throughout we encounter designs and artwork by such notables as Marcel Breuer, Frank Gehry, Mies van der Rohe, Eero Sarrinen, Mark di Suvero, Isamu Noguchi, Betty Woodman, Alfred Leslie, Leon Polk Smith, Terry Winters, and a host of…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Quantuck Lane Press & The Mill Road Collaborative, The
Publication date: 12/13/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 10.50" wide x 11.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.916
Language: English

He is the director emeritus of the Whitney Museum of American Art. In addition, he has led three other major museums, the Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts & the Andy Warhol Museum. Trained as a painter at cornell University, He has written books & articles in association with museum projects. Among his honors & awards is an honorary degree from Hamilton College.