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“We have not supposed there is a poetry of ideas.”
– Charles Eames
Chuck Pratt
Architecture 4395
The Constructive Vision
Prof. Ed Baum
Fall 2003
Books
Eames Design: The Work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames
by John Neuhart, Marilyn Neuhart, Ray Eames
New York, Harry N. Abrams
©1989 John Neuhart, Marilyn Neuhart, and the Estate of Ray Eames
Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps
by Kees Boeke
© 1957 Kees Boeke.
a web version of the book
about Kees Boeke (in Dutch)
Kees Boeke on Wikipedia
An Eames Primer
by Eames Demetrios
London, Thames & Hudson
© 2001 by Eames Demetrios
Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century
by Pat Kirkham
Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press
© 1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Office of Charles Eames and Ray Kaiser — The Material Trail
Essay by Joseph Biovannini in
The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
edited by Donald Albrecht
© 1997 Library of Congress and Vitra Design Museum
New York, Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, 1997
published in conjunction with the Smithsonian exhibition
Magazine Articles
"Architecture: Designer Marriage"
by Karrie Jacobs, New York Magazine, September 1999
"The World of Charles and Ray Eames" article in Bene.com 26 June 2001
"Poetry of Ideas: The Films of Charles Eames", by Paul Schrader, Film Quarterly no. 3 (Spring 1970) : pp. 2-19.
Web Sources
Ray Eames interviews, 1980 July 28 - Aug. 20, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (Oral history Interview with Ray Kaiser Eames Conducted by Ruth Bowman In Venice, California July 28 & 31 and August 20, 1980)
The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Design
Web site for the Library of Congress exhibit, 1999