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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.
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