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Overview"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 Gifts (1836)--cubes, spheres, and cylinders that are gradually broken down to smaller geometrical parts; Anchor Stone Building Blocks (1877), comprising hundreds of miniature stone shapes that yield castles, forts, and churches; Meccano (1901) and the Erector Set (1911), including small metal girders to construct bridges and skyscrapers mimetic of contemporary steel structures; and The Toy (1950) and House of Cards (1952), designed by Charles and Ray Eames, which are lightweight cardboard """"kits of parts"""" based on methods of prefabrication. Used in the intimacy of the domestic environment, a setting that encouraged the eradication of formal habits and a reconceiving of visual orders, architectural toys ultimately intimated notions of the modern. Amply illustrated and engagingly written, this book sheds valuable light on this fascinating relation between household toys and the deeper trends and ideas from which they sprung." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tamar ZingerPublisher: University of Virginia Press Imprint: University of Virginia Press Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.903kg ISBN: 9780813937724ISBN 10: 0813937728 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 December 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsWritten 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 Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination 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 Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination .Tamar Zinguer is Associate Professor at the Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.Tamar Zinger (author) 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 Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination. Author InformationTamar Zinguer is Associate Professor at the Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |