An everyday modernism
Subtitle: the houses of William Wurster
By: edited by Marc Treib ; with essays by David Gebhard ... [et al.].
Contributors: Treib, Marc.; Gebhard, David.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Publisher: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University of California Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif; Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Wurster, William Wilson -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Houses of William Wurster
Description: Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster is the first large-scale examination of Wurster's fifty-year career and his important place in contemporary American architectural thought. Featured here are photographs, drawings, and plans of over fifty of Wurster's projects, as well as many others by his contemporaries.

Essays by distinguished architectural historians and critics provide insight into both his professional and personal life while also exploring the complex interplay of social and political forces that affected housing during the first half of this century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-243) and index.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 16, 1995-Feb. 11, 1996.