Modern Steel House

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Modern Movement houses constructed with steel frames. Arranged chronologically and thematically it traces the development over the last seventy years of steel houses in Europe Australia and the United States with special reference to London Paris Sydney and Los Angeles and to the work elsewhere of Mies van der Rohe Philip Johnson and Jean Prouve. Examples of steel houses from around the world demonstrate that steel structures can provide a better quality of life within a cleaner lighter home environment.