Author : Nicholas D. Hayes
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0299331806
Frank Lloyd Wright's foray into affordable housing--the American System-Built Homes--is frequently overlooked. When Nicholas and Angela Hayes became stewards of one of them, they began to unearth evidence that revealed a one-hundred-year-old fiasco fueled by competing ambitions and conflicting visions that eventually gave way to Wright's most creative period.
Author : Anthony Alofsin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226013664
New definition to the little-known work Wright produced during this period, which he describes as Wright's primitivist phase. He traces this influence in his art through Wright's explorations of primitivist sources, innovations in sculpture, and an intensification of the architect's use of ornament. Less tangible, but as important, was Wright's view of himself, his art, and society, and Alofsin uncovers the European impact on the architect's image of himself as a.
Author : John Eifler
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The Seth Peterson Cottage in Wisconsin's Mirror Lake State Park was one of Frank Lloyd Wright's last Wisconsin designs, and his smallest at 880 square feet. Read about the history, construction, and renovation efforts of this tiny treasure, which was rescued from ruin. You'll want to plan a visit soon to the cottage that is open to the public and can be rented by anyone, provided they respect the building.
Author : Alan Hess
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781586858582
Forgotten Modern reveals the work of the innovative architects building in California from the 1930s to the 1970s. With groundbreaking and illuminating examples that will alter the way we think of California architecture, Hess and Weintraub focus on those that exemplify early mid-entury modern, variations on minimalism, and organic architecture. Though architects, historians, and the public alike have overlooked many of these superb architects from California's past century, this book intends to bring them back to our attention. All the architects included here are important in helping to show the breadth of design, that styles like Organic were more widely represented than we have previously realized, and that the fertile soil of California design fostered a wide spectrum of remarkable ideas-even if not all developed a significant school of followers. Chapters Include: A New Introduction to Midcentury California Searching For Midcentury Modern Variations on Wood and Steel Modernism Organic Architecture History Plus Modernism
Author : Jason Loper
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2021
Category : American System-Built Homes
ISBN : 9781087500614
Long before designing his signature Usonian houses, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned an earlier series of affordable models for the middle class: The American System-Built Homes. He developed seven floorplans of varying size and layout, standardized so that materials could be precut at the factory to reduce costs. Only a few years after the project began, the United States entered World War I, and all home construction was stalled due to lumber shortages. Wright then turned his attention to other projects, and with fewer than twenty built, the American System-Built Homes were all but forgotten.In 2011, Jason Loper and Michael Schreiber purchased the only American System-Built Home constructed in Iowa, the Meier House, which set them on a course of refurbishing and researching their new residence. In This American House, Loper and Schreiber trace the history of the Meier House through its previous owners, and shed light on this underexplored period of Wright's oeuvre. With a preface by John H. Waters, the Preservation Programs Manager of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, This American House addresses what it means to be the stewards of a piece of history.
Author : Carla Lind
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780684813066
The author details more than one hundred of Wright's buildings that no longer exist--lost to fire, natural disaster, changes in fashion or economy, or intended to be temporary.
Author : Patrick F. Cannon
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780764937460
Oak Park and River Forest are a mecca for Wright scholars and enthusiasts. Nowhere else can one visit so many Frank Lloyd Wright buildings and experience the architect's Prairie-style philosophy so fully. Hometown Architect is a thorough chronicle of that experience. Even if you have not had the good fortune to see these houses firsthand, the textual and photographic tours comprising this book will make you feel as though you have. Hometown Architect presents twenty-seven Wright homes, and Unity Temple, documenting one of the architect's most influential periods of his career. The last chapter surveys eight lost, altered, and possibly Wright homes. More than ninety photographs of the buildings' exteriors and interiors are accompanied by descriptive captions, while introductory text to each chapter details the story behind each commission, addressing Wright's relationships with his clients, the importance of each building in Wright's oeuvre, and the characteristics that make each house unique. The endpapers of this book feature a map locating all the sites discussed. By Patrick F. Cannon, introduction by Paul Kruty, photography by James Caulfield. Published in cooperation with the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.
Author : Jane King Hession
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781423601012
'Frank Lloyd wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959', examines the momentous five-year period when one of the world's greatest architects and one of the world's greatest cities coexisted. Authors Jane Hession and Debra Prickel bring each of these unequalled characters to life, exploring the fascinating contradiction between Wright's often-voiced disdain of New York and his pride and pleasure of living in one of the city's greatest landmarks: the Plaza Hotel. From his suite, or 'Taliesin the Third', as it became known, Wright supervised construction of the Guggenheim, sparred with the New York press, and received many famous vistitors such as Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. home...;Michael Carroll, a renowned astronomical and paleo artist for more than twenty years, has done work for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His art has appeared in many magazines, including 'Time', 'National Geographic', 'Sky & Telescope', and ' Asimov's Science Fiction'. One of his paintings flew aboard MIR; another is resting at the bottom of the Atlantic, aboard Russia's ill-fated Mars 96 spacecraft. nd development without constraining
Author : Lynda S. Waggoner
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0847835995
Presents a pictorial look at the history, structure, and restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.
Author : Ellen Labrecque
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0399539727
Born in Wisconsin in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright became obsessed with a set of building blocks his mother had given to him on his ninth birthday. He grew up to become the father of organic architecture and the greatest American architect of all time, having designed more than 1,100 buildings during his lifetime. These included private homes – such as the stunning Fallingwater, churches, temples, a hotel, and the world-famous Guggenheim Museum in New York City. When asked how he could create so many designs, he answered, “I can’t get them out fast enough.” Frank Lloyd Wright was a man ahead of his time who could barely keep up with his own ideas!
