The Springboard in the Pond
An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool
Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen

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Author(s)

Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen

Publication, year

Cambridge MA : The MIT Press, 1998

Scope

321 Pages, illustrated, 25 cm.

ISBN

0262720329

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Although others have written eloquently on the relationship of water to built form, until now no one has investigated the swimming pool as a quintessentially modern and American space, reflecting America's infatuation with hygiene, skin, and recreation. In The Springboard in the Pond, Thomas van Leeuwen looks at a familiar hole—the domestic swimming pool—and discovers an icon indispensable to the reading of twentieth-century modernism.

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Location

Cabinet 28 - 5: Culturele benadering van de (stedelijke) ruimte

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.