Author: David Gebhard
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Frank Lloyd Wright's romanza-as he termed his California work-covers a span of more than fifty years and includes twenty-four finished edifices that are as varied and striking as the landscape itself.
The California Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: David Gebhard
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Frank Lloyd Wright's romanza-as he termed his California work-covers a span of more than fifty years and includes twenty-four finished edifices that are as varied and striking as the landscape itself.
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Frank Lloyd Wright's romanza-as he termed his California work-covers a span of more than fifty years and includes twenty-four finished edifices that are as varied and striking as the landscape itself.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Iain Thomson
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
ISBN: 9781571451347
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Auth: Univ. of Florida, Critical overview, Archival drawings, plans, color photos.
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
ISBN: 9781571451347
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Auth: Univ. of Florida, Critical overview, Archival drawings, plans, color photos.
On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe
Author: Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351913875
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as ’uniquely molded’, ’woven like a textile fabric’ and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together Wright’s declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to determine their accuracy and correctness, or the possibility of feigned or fictional stories. It examines technical developments of concrete blocks by Wright and others before his experiences in Los Angeles began in 1919. It also studies the manner of Wright’s design process by an examination of relevant pictorial and textual documents. A unique, in-depth and critical analysis of the houses is set within historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. Consequently, the book explains the impact upon Wright of California contemporaries, architects Irving Gill and Rudolph Schindler, and their instrumentally profound role upon the course of modernism 1907-1923. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of Wright’s, Gill’s and Schindler’s buildings beyond their experiential qualities.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351913875
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as ’uniquely molded’, ’woven like a textile fabric’ and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together Wright’s declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to determine their accuracy and correctness, or the possibility of feigned or fictional stories. It examines technical developments of concrete blocks by Wright and others before his experiences in Los Angeles began in 1919. It also studies the manner of Wright’s design process by an examination of relevant pictorial and textual documents. A unique, in-depth and critical analysis of the houses is set within historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. Consequently, the book explains the impact upon Wright of California contemporaries, architects Irving Gill and Rudolph Schindler, and their instrumentally profound role upon the course of modernism 1907-1923. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of Wright’s, Gill’s and Schindler’s buildings beyond their experiential qualities.
The Shape of the World
Author: K.L. Going
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442478284
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A little boy who loves to find shapes in nature grows up to be one of America’s greatest architects in this inspiring biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. When Frank Lloyd Wright was a baby, his mother dreamed that he would become a great architect. She gave him blocks to play with and he learned that shapes are made up of many other shapes. As he grew up, he loved finding shapes in nature. Wright went on to study architecture and create buildings that were one with the natural world around them. He became known as one of the greatest American architects of all time.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442478284
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A little boy who loves to find shapes in nature grows up to be one of America’s greatest architects in this inspiring biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. When Frank Lloyd Wright was a baby, his mother dreamed that he would become a great architect. She gave him blocks to play with and he learned that shapes are made up of many other shapes. As he grew up, he loved finding shapes in nature. Wright went on to study architecture and create buildings that were one with the natural world around them. He became known as one of the greatest American architects of all time.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Meryle Secrest
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226744148
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends are explored in this evocative biography. Secrest had unprecedented access to an extensive archive of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings and books. "Secrest's achievement is to etch Wright's character in sharp relief. . . . (She) presents Wright in his every guise".--Blair Kamin, "Chicago Tribune". 121 photos.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226744148
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends are explored in this evocative biography. Secrest had unprecedented access to an extensive archive of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings and books. "Secrest's achievement is to etch Wright's character in sharp relief. . . . (She) presents Wright in his every guise".--Blair Kamin, "Chicago Tribune". 121 photos.
Envisioning Architecture
Author: Matilda McQuaid
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780810962217
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The first in a series of books that will showcase works from The Museum of Modern Art's superlative holdings in the fields of architecture and design, this text features a range of drawings by great architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Alvar Aalto.
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780810962217
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The first in a series of books that will showcase works from The Museum of Modern Art's superlative holdings in the fields of architecture and design, this text features a range of drawings by great architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Alvar Aalto.
Frank Lloyd Wright's California Houses
Author: Carla Lind
Publisher: Pomegranate
ISBN: 9780764900136
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Always an experimenter, in the 1920's Wright debuted an innovative building system with four striking houses in the Los Angeles area. This book features these internationally renowned compositions and a fifth that shares their exotic form.The Wright-at-a-Glance series showcases the work of one of the world's best-known architects. Comprising twelve books in all, this series offers an overview of Wright's life, buildings, and designs.
Publisher: Pomegranate
ISBN: 9780764900136
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Always an experimenter, in the 1920's Wright debuted an innovative building system with four striking houses in the Los Angeles area. This book features these internationally renowned compositions and a fifth that shares their exotic form.The Wright-at-a-Glance series showcases the work of one of the world's best-known architects. Comprising twelve books in all, this series offers an overview of Wright's life, buildings, and designs.
Architectural Details 2003
Author: Detail Magazine
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135143935
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This is a compilation of the full year's information, including: the "Discussion" section, where well-known architects and critics as well as specialist authors and architectural historians articulate their views; the "Documentation" section containing an analysis of selected projects, in which buildings from around the world are covered in depth; and the "Technology" section where the specific theme of each issue of the magazine is treated in greater depth. Along with these are illustrations of the high standards that Detail is known for, where all plan drawings are true to scale and have been approved by the architects, planners and engineers responsible for the original design. This annual sourcebook is a beautiful record, not only of the year's Detail publication, but of some of the best, and most innovative contemporary architecture
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135143935
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This is a compilation of the full year's information, including: the "Discussion" section, where well-known architects and critics as well as specialist authors and architectural historians articulate their views; the "Documentation" section containing an analysis of selected projects, in which buildings from around the world are covered in depth; and the "Technology" section where the specific theme of each issue of the magazine is treated in greater depth. Along with these are illustrations of the high standards that Detail is known for, where all plan drawings are true to scale and have been approved by the architects, planners and engineers responsible for the original design. This annual sourcebook is a beautiful record, not only of the year's Detail publication, but of some of the best, and most innovative contemporary architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Barry Bergdoll
Publisher: Moma
ISBN: 9781633450264
Category : Architecture, American
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalogue reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar as to nearly preclude critical reexamination. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, the book is a collection of scholarly explorations rather than an attempt to construct a master narrative. Each chapter centers on a key object from the archive that an invited author has "unpacked"-interpreting and contextualizing it, tracing its meanings and connections, and juxtaposing it with other works from the archive, from MoMA, or from outside collections. The publication aims to open up Wright's work to questions, interrogations, and debates, and to highlight interpretations by contemporary scholars, both established Wright experts and others considering this iconic figure from new and illuminating perspectives.
Publisher: Moma
ISBN: 9781633450264
Category : Architecture, American
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalogue reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar as to nearly preclude critical reexamination. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, the book is a collection of scholarly explorations rather than an attempt to construct a master narrative. Each chapter centers on a key object from the archive that an invited author has "unpacked"-interpreting and contextualizing it, tracing its meanings and connections, and juxtaposing it with other works from the archive, from MoMA, or from outside collections. The publication aims to open up Wright's work to questions, interrogations, and debates, and to highlight interpretations by contemporary scholars, both established Wright experts and others considering this iconic figure from new and illuminating perspectives.
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Buildings
Author: Jonathan Lipman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486427485
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Thoroughly researched study of the design and construction of this radical, inspiring workplace draws on much unpublished archival material. From the genesis of the structurally unique Administration Building — its design development, innovations, and furnishings — to the construction and completion of the Research Towers, Lipman presents a wealth of information. 172 black-and-white illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486427485
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Thoroughly researched study of the design and construction of this radical, inspiring workplace draws on much unpublished archival material. From the genesis of the structurally unique Administration Building — its design development, innovations, and furnishings — to the construction and completion of the Research Towers, Lipman presents a wealth of information. 172 black-and-white illustrations.