Reading List : Single Family Homes in the 1920s & 30s

by Richard Cameron

We've been working hard on a new collaboration to make good architectural design accessible for small-scale, high-end residences in the Western States of the U.S. (more on that soon!)

Michael Djordjevitch, our in-house historian, has been deep in research and emerged with a solid reading list. First up, a selection of great inspiration classics on single family homes in the 1920s and 30s: 

500 Small Houses of the Twenties, Henry Atterbury Smith (Dover Architecture) 

500 Small Houses of the Twenties, Henry Atterbury Smith (Dover Architecture) 

 
Flagg's Small Houses: Their Economic Design & Construction, 1922, Ernest Flagg (Dover Architecture)

Flagg's Small Houses: Their Economic Design & Construction, 1922, Ernest Flagg (Dover Architecture)

 
Smaller Houses of the 1920s: 55 Examples, Ethel B. Power (Dover Architecture)

Smaller Houses of the 1920s: 55 Examples, Ethel B. Power (Dover Architecture)

 
 
Elegant Country and Suburban Houses of the Twenties, Charles S. Keefe (Dover Architecture)

Elegant Country and Suburban Houses of the Twenties, Charles S. Keefe (Dover Architecture)

 
American Country Houses of the Thirties, Lewis A. Coffin (Dover Architecture)

American Country Houses of the Thirties, Lewis A. Coffin (Dover Architecture)

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'EIRENE' (Peace) Capriccio after Bernini's sketch for the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Peter's and a cupola from Madison Square Garden by Stanford White. RWC Atelier 2023 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called childre
Sometimes sketching random things-imaginary designs, buildings in Rome from Cipriani's illustrated et al keeps my hand in practice and the miles going g by on the train and after leads to design ideas for real projects-really doodling with a purpose.
One of the lesser known courtyards of Rome just down the street from the Trevi Fountain-the side loggia of the home of the Accademia di S. Luca in Rome. Imagine entering this every day with Borromini as your professor...
The Villa Medici in Rome, home to the French Academy since 1803. All the great Rome prize winners worked in this building sending their rigorous and painterly surveys of the Roman and Greek monuments back to Paris (see previous post). I remember seei
Santi Luca e Martina in Rome. Cortona's great church in the Roman Forum next to the arch of Septimus Severus and church of the Academia di S. Luca, the world's first academy of fine art. It has been a focus of study for many years since it was first
The sublime student work(!) Of Emmanuel Brune, 1er Grand Prix 1863 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The first image sits beside my drawing table to remind me of the standard to aim for in design and delineation...