中文简介：

**本专注于加州建筑师格雷戈里·艾因（Gregory Ain）的住房项目的书，该项目以开放式厨房、活动墙和其他设计创新为特色。南加州建筑师格雷戈里·艾因（1908-1988）曾与本世纪中期设计界一些最重要的人物合作，包括鲁道夫·辛德勒、理查德·诺伊特拉、查尔斯和雷·伊姆斯，但他仍然相对默默无闻。也许这种默默无闻的原因之一是，尽管他为富有的自由主义者设计了私人住宅，但艾因更感兴趣的是在精心设计的社区环境中为工人阶级家庭找到生产高质量、低成本的房屋的方法。这是**本研究综合了艾因的建筑和政治理想的创新住房项目的书。 该书根据四份“笔记”排列，类似于警察或监视档案（这并非偶然，因为这些说明中就有艾因的实际FBI档案）。**部分展示了一系列引人注目的黑白照片，这些照片由**建筑摄影师朱利叶斯·舒尔曼（Julius Shulman）拍摄，展示了艾因建造的四个住房项目。随后是当代建筑历史学家关于艾因的文章，还有一个文章档案部分，包括杰出建筑作家和评论家以斯帖·麦科伊（Esther McCoy）关于艾因的演讲笔记，最后是Kyungsub Shin的项目描述、图纸和当代彩色照片。 艾因的住房项目代表了一种社区设计的新模式，颂扬了普通人的日常生活和多样性。艾因的创新，包括开放式厨房和用于“灵活住宅”的可移动隔墙，旨在解决具体问题，而不是追求独特个性。他的高密度开发项目预示着当代建筑设计时要尽量减少占用面积。本书图文并茂，将艾因重新引入了一个被遗忘的领域。

英文简介：

The first book to focus on California architect Gregory Ain's housing projects, which featured open kitchens, movable walls, and other design innovations.The Southern California architect Gregory Ain (1908-1988) collaborated with some of the most important figures of midcentury design, including Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, and Charles and Ray Eames, and yet remains relatively unknown. Perhaps one reason for this anonymity is that although he designed private homes for wealthy liberals, Ain was more interested in finding ways to produce high-quality, low-cost houses in well-designed neighborhood settings for working-class families. This is the first book to examine the innovative housing projects that synthesized Ain's architectural and political ideals. The book is arranged through a quartet of "notes"--both textual and visual--akin to a police or surveillance file (which is no accident, given that among these notes is Ain's actual FBI file). The first presents a series of striking black-and-white photographs of four of Ain's built housing projects by celebrated architectural photographer Julius Shulman. These are followed by illustrated essays on Ain by contemporary architectural historians, an archival section of articles, including notes for a lecture on Ain by the distinguished architectural writer and critic Esther McCoy, and lastly project descriptions, drawings, and contemporary color photographs by Kyungsub Shin. Ain's housing projects represented a new paradigm in neighborhood design that celebrated the everyday life and diversity of ordinary people. Ain's innovations--including open kitchens and movable partition walls for a "flexible house"--aimed to solve specific problems rather than pursue arbitrary expressions of uniqueness. His high-density developments anticipate contemporary efforts to design building with a minimal footprint. Generously illustrated, this volume reintroduces Ain to a forgetful field.