Main entry:

Bruegmann, Robert.

Title & Author:

The architecture of Harry Weese / Robert Bruegmann ; building entries by Kathleen Murphy Skolnik.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2010.

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, photograph ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-227) and index.
Building entries: Glen Lake Houses, Glen Lake, MI -- Tea Wagon -- 227 East Walton, Chicago, IL -- Lillian C. Schmitt Elementary School, Columbus, IN -- Johnson House, Chicago, IL -- Weese "Studio," Barrington, IL -- United States Embassy, Accra, Ghana -- Northside Junior High School, Columbus, IN -- Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. -- Tangeman House, Muskoka Lakes, Ontario -- Hyde Park A & B Urban Renewal Project, Chicago, IL -- IBM Building, Milwaukee, WE -- Offices of Harry Weese & Associates, Chicago, IL -- First Baptist Church of Columbus, IN -- Audiotrium Theater Restoration, Chicago, IL -- Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago, IL -- Latin School of Chicago, IL -- Shadowcliff, Ellison Bay, WI -- Time-Life Building, Chicago, IL -- Given Institute of Pathobiology, Aspen, CO -- Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY -- Crown Center Hotel, Kansas City, MO -- Sawyer Library, Williams College, Williamston, MA -- Oak Park Village Hall, Oak Park, IL -- Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago, IL -- Willow Street Townhouses, Chicago, IL -- Washington Metro, Washington, D.C., first segment -- Frederick E. Terman Engineering Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA -- Union Underwear Corporate Headquarters, Bowling Green, KY -- 200 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL -- Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation, Louisville, KY -- Wolf Point Landings, Chicago, IL -- United States Embassy Housing, Tokyo, Japan -- Miami-Dade County Transit System, Dade County, FL.

Summary:

During a career that spanned half a century from the 1930s to the 1980s, Weese produced a large number of significant designs ranging from small but highly inventive houses to large urban scale commissions like the Washington, D.C., Metro system. Although influenced to some degree by the rational, and often austere, work of European modernists like Mies van der Rohe, in most of his own oeuvre Weese instead followed the example of Nordic architects like Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto in favoring natural materials, human scale, and comfort; his work was characterized by a deep respect for older buildings and existing urban patterns and a fondness for unexpected, often idiosyncratic design decisions.

ISBN:

9780393731934 (hardcover)
0393731936 (hardcover)

Subject:

Weese, Harry, 1915-1998.
Architects United States Biography.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architects.
Architecture.
Arkitekter Förenta staterna 1900-talet.
Arkitektur 1900-talet.
United States.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Skolnik, Kathleen Murphy.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271794
Call No.: NA44.W398.9 B7 2010
Status: Available