Experimental Houses Author:Nicolas Pople Striking new solutions to familiar problems of form, function, materials, and space constraints are presented in this book's examination of key contemporary buildings that radically reconfigure the usual architectural parameters. The book begins with a historical review of experimental houses over the last eleven decades, covering the work of A... more »dolf Loos, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and others. Key social, political, and economic forces shaping the development of twentieth-century houses are outlined. Contemporary examples are discussed by type: mobile, prefabricated, ecological, cluster, infill, adaptive conversions, and others.« less