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Evolving Transcendentalism in Literature and Architecture
Evolving Transcendentalism in Literature and Architecture: Frank Furness, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright demonstrates how American architects read literature and transformed abstract philosophy and literary form into physical substance. Furness, Sullivan, and Wright were inspired by such Transcendentalists as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, and attempted to embody the concepts of nature, American identity, and Universalism in their architecture. Notably, th.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's lost buildings
\"As hard as it is to imagine, about one hundred of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings -- one of every five built -- have been demolished. Houses, apartment buildings, and recreation and business structures all succumbed to real estate pressures, changing tastes, or sheer neglect. 'Frank Lloyd Wright's Lost Buildings' is the first book to trace some of these major losses. Poignant illustrations document Wright's monumental achievements that are no longer around: the world-renowned Imperial Hotel, the festive Midway Gardens, the awe-inspiring Larkin Building. Formative, early designs by the young architect -- a boathouse, a golf club, a courtyard apartment building -- briefly come back to life, along with the architect's own desert camp and houses that helped Wright gain worldwide fame.\"--Front flap of book jacket.
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Frank Lloyd Wright and His Manner of Thought
An iconic figure in American culture, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous throughout the world. Although his achievements in architecture are stunning, it is his importance in cultural history, Jerome Klinkowitz contends, that makes Wright the object of such avid and continuing interest. Designing more than just buildings, Wright offered a concept for living that still influences how people conduct their lives today. Wright's innovations in architecture have been widely studied, but this is the most comprehensive and sustained treatment of his thought. Klinkowitz presents a critical biography driven by the architect's own work and intellectual growth, focusing on the evolution of Wright's thinking and writings from his first public addresses in 1894 to his last essay in 1959. Did Wright reject all of Victorian thinking about the home, or do his attentions to a minister's sermon on \"the house beautiful\" deserve closer attention? Was Wright echoing the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, or was he more in step with the philosophy of William James? Did he reject the Arts and Crafts movement, or repurpose its beliefs and practices for new times? And, what can be said of his deep dissatisfaction with architectural concepts of his own era, the dominant modernism that became the International Style? Even the strongest advocates of Frank Lloyd Wright have been puzzled by his objections to so much that characterized the twentieth century, from ideas for building to styles of living. In
Frank Lloyd Wright and
His Manner of Thought , Klinkowitz, a widely published authority on twentieth-century literature, thought, and culture, examines the full extent of Wright's books, essays, and lectures to show how he emerged from the nineteenth century to anticipate the twenty-first. Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
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The urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright
\"This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect's work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright's projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Forgotten House
While the grandiosity of Fallingwater and elegance of Taliesin are
recognized universally, Frank Lloyd Wright's first foray into
affordable housing is frequently overlooked. Although Wright began
work on his American System-Built Homes (ASBH, 1911-17) with great
energy, the project fell apart following wartime shortages and
disputes between the architect and his developer. While continuing
to advocate for the design of affordable small homes, Wright never
spoke publicly of ASBH. As a result, the heritage of many
Wright-designed homes was forgotten. When Nicholas and Angela Hayes
became stewards of the unassuming Elizabeth Murphy House near
Milwaukee, they began to unearth evidence that ultimately revealed
a one-hundred-year-old fiasco fueled by competing ambitions and
conflicting visions of America. The couple's forensic pursuit of
the truth untangled the ways Wright's ASBH experiment led to the
architect's most productive, creative period. Frank Lloyd
Wright's Forgotten House includes a wealth of drawings and
photographs, many of which have never been previously published.
Historians, architecture buffs, and Wrightophiles alike will be
fascinated by this untold history that fills a crucial gap in the
architect's oeuvre.
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Building Character
In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of \"race\" and \"style\" as manifestations of natural law: just as biological processes seemed to inherently regulate the racial characters that made humans a perfect fit for their geographical contexts, architectural characters became a rational product of design. Parallels between racial and architectural characters provided a rationalist model of design that fashioned some of the most influential national building styles of the past, from the pioneering concepts of French structural rationalism and German tectonic theory to the nationalist associations of the Chicago Style, the Prairie Style, and the International Style. InBuilding Character, Charles Davis traces the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern theorists-Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze-to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles.
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How Sydney Discovered Frank Lloyd Wright
Alfred Hitchcock was in town to promote his latest thriller, North by Northwest (1959) and John Reid was about to commence building his Bruce Rickard-designed house at Castle Hill, north-west of the city. It called for the kind of rustic random coursed masonry which featured in the set in the tense closing scenes of Hitchcock's movie, jutting out at the top of the mountain.
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