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Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
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The Genovese architect Renzo Piano has designed a museum building — the Zentrum Paul Klee on the outskirts of Bern. Piano was convinced from the outset that he would find the answers to his own questions in the art of Paul Klee. The Center, says Piano, is dedicated to the “poet of silence,” and thus it was only fitting to consider building a museum that would speak(...)
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The Genovese architect Renzo Piano has designed a museum building — the Zentrum Paul Klee on the outskirts of Bern. Piano was convinced from the outset that he would find the answers to his own questions in the art of Paul Klee. The Center, says Piano, is dedicated to the “poet of silence,” and thus it was only fitting to consider building a museum that would speak(...)
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The Genovese architect Renzo Piano has designed a museum building — the Zentrum Paul Klee on the outskirts of Bern. Piano was convinced from the outset that he would find the answers to his own questions in the art of Paul Klee. The Center, says Piano, is dedicated to the “poet of silence,” and thus it was only fitting to consider building a museum that would speak softly. Renzo Piano was also inspired by the identity of the location and the gentle, undulating lines of the terrain. The Zentrum Paul Klee rises upward in the form of three hills connected by a 150-meter-long thoroughfare, the “Museumsstrasse” within the museum complex. It is a harmonious yet prominent landscape sculpture featuring a steel construction that supports the roof. In this documentation, Benedikt Lodererprovides a precisely detailed description of Renzo Piano’s architectural idea. With the aid of numerous photographs, design sketches, plans, and models, this book presents an image of a building and its architectural history.
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The Genovese architect Renzo Piano has designed a museum building — the Zentrum Paul Klee on the outskirts of Bern. Piano was convinced from the outset that he would find the answers to his own questions in the art of Paul Klee. The Center, says Piano, is dedicated to the “poet of silence,” and thus it was only fitting to consider building a museum that would speak softly. Renzo Piano was also inspired by the identity of the location and the gentle, undulating lines of the terrain. The Zentrum Paul Klee rises upward in the form of three hills connected by a 150-meter-long thoroughfare, the “Museumsstrasse” within the museum complex. It is a harmonious yet prominent landscape sculpture featuring a steel construction that supports the roof. In this documentation, Benedikt Lodererprovides a precisely detailed description of Renzo Piano’s architectural idea. With the aid of numerous photographs, design sketches, plans, and models, this book presents an image of a building and its architectural history.
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Lebbeus Woods : System Wien
Lebbeus Woods : System Wien
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The New York based architect Lebbeus Woods – founder of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture (RIEA) – concerns himself intensively with architectural theory and experimental architecture. His approach is free from the pressures of specific purpose built projects and rather tends to develop visionary projects which integrate research, philosophy, and art.(...)
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The New York based architect Lebbeus Woods – founder of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture (RIEA) – concerns himself intensively with architectural theory and experimental architecture. His approach is free from the pressures of specific purpose built projects and rather tends to develop visionary projects which integrate research, philosophy, and art.(...)
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February 2006, Vienna
February 2006, Vienna
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Lebbeus Woods : System Wien
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The New York based architect Lebbeus Woods – founder of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture (RIEA) – concerns himself intensively with architectural theory and experimental architecture. His approach is free from the pressures of specific purpose built projects and rather tends to develop visionary projects which integrate research, philosophy, and art. The subject of his exhibition entitled “System Wien” which he developed in collaboration with Christoph a. Kumpusch is the urban structure of the city of Vienna which he plans to interfere in with specific architectural interventions. This publication - published for the exhibition of the same name in the MAK Vienna - documents the various works comprising the "System Wien" project. It develops an idea that the making of architectuere can be understood as the organization of energy. The project explores how energy relations in public and private city spaces might be represented tectonically in the form of drawings and installations; how existing energy elations in the city can be changed by the input tectonically in the form of drawings and installations; and hoe the future of the city need not depend for creative energy input on the development of building projects requiring large capital investments and institutional approval, but rather on the redistribution of energy at the human scale of the street and the room.
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The New York based architect Lebbeus Woods – founder of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture (RIEA) – concerns himself intensively with architectural theory and experimental architecture. His approach is free from the pressures of specific purpose built projects and rather tends to develop visionary projects which integrate research, philosophy, and art. The subject of his exhibition entitled “System Wien” which he developed in collaboration with Christoph a. Kumpusch is the urban structure of the city of Vienna which he plans to interfere in with specific architectural interventions. This publication - published for the exhibition of the same name in the MAK Vienna - documents the various works comprising the "System Wien" project. It develops an idea that the making of architectuere can be understood as the organization of energy. The project explores how energy relations in public and private city spaces might be represented tectonically in the form of drawings and installations; how existing energy elations in the city can be changed by the input tectonically in the form of drawings and installations; and hoe the future of the city need not depend for creative energy input on the development of building projects requiring large capital investments and institutional approval, but rather on the redistribution of energy at the human scale of the street and the room.
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February 2006, Vienna
February 2006, Vienna
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Peter Eisenman : feints
Peter Eisenman : feints
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Impregnated with “culture” in the broadest sense, the works of Peter Eisenman reflect many years of important study on the meaning and sense of design. Architecture understood as history, as philosophy, as art, as mathematics, as literature, architecture understood – as it should be that is – as a strict discipline that aims to recover its operational fields, defining(...)
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Impregnated with “culture” in the broadest sense, the works of Peter Eisenman reflect many years of important study on the meaning and sense of design. Architecture understood as history, as philosophy, as art, as mathematics, as literature, architecture understood – as it should be that is – as a strict discipline that aims to recover its operational fields, defining(...)
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May 2006, Milano
May 2006, Milano
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Peter Eisenman : feints
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Impregnated with “culture” in the broadest sense, the works of Peter Eisenman reflect many years of important study on the meaning and sense of design. Architecture understood as history, as philosophy, as art, as mathematics, as literature, architecture understood – as it should be that is – as a strict discipline that aims to recover its operational fields, defining with precision its limits and the potential for a profession that must constantly face destabilising visual and technological systems. Within history and yet outside it so that it can continue, within tradition yet outside of Tradition in order to avoid becoming sterile, the architecture of Peter Eisenman does not aim to console with the simple suggestion of a difficult-to-define aesthetic or the illusion of an evanescent technique. The unpredictability of his work anchors design to individuation and the clarification of its objectives by focussing on the value of the sign understood as a fundamental conceptual expression and not as simple formal distortion. The validity of this formidable theoretical system intended to return a renewed and personal linguistic system to fields of architecture, is confirmed by examining the continued expansion of the territorial system, as evidenced by projects on a territorial scale such as the Memorial of Berlin or the Cultural Centre of Galizia, the most recent projects which demonstrate the vitality of a design system that is constantly renewing itself.
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Impregnated with “culture” in the broadest sense, the works of Peter Eisenman reflect many years of important study on the meaning and sense of design. Architecture understood as history, as philosophy, as art, as mathematics, as literature, architecture understood – as it should be that is – as a strict discipline that aims to recover its operational fields, defining with precision its limits and the potential for a profession that must constantly face destabilising visual and technological systems. Within history and yet outside it so that it can continue, within tradition yet outside of Tradition in order to avoid becoming sterile, the architecture of Peter Eisenman does not aim to console with the simple suggestion of a difficult-to-define aesthetic or the illusion of an evanescent technique. The unpredictability of his work anchors design to individuation and the clarification of its objectives by focussing on the value of the sign understood as a fundamental conceptual expression and not as simple formal distortion. The validity of this formidable theoretical system intended to return a renewed and personal linguistic system to fields of architecture, is confirmed by examining the continued expansion of the territorial system, as evidenced by projects on a territorial scale such as the Memorial of Berlin or the Cultural Centre of Galizia, the most recent projects which demonstrate the vitality of a design system that is constantly renewing itself.
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May 2006, Milano
May 2006, Milano
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This researched and illustrated study catalogs all of Latrobe's domestic commissions, offering an authoritative treatment of the concepts, designs, and unique interior and exterior features of his houses. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an English émigré and the first professional architect of international stature to practice in the United States, invented an American house(...)
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This researched and illustrated study catalogs all of Latrobe's domestic commissions, offering an authoritative treatment of the concepts, designs, and unique interior and exterior features of his houses. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an English émigré and the first professional architect of international stature to practice in the United States, invented an American house(...)
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March 2006, Baltimore
March 2006, Baltimore
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The domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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This researched and illustrated study catalogs all of Latrobe's domestic commissions, offering an authoritative treatment of the concepts, designs, and unique interior and exterior features of his houses. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an English émigré and the first professional architect of international stature to practice in the United States, invented an American house type for the new democratic republic. Calling upon his diverse education and travel experiences in Europe and his training with eminent architects and engineers in London, Latrobe responded to American manners and climate by producing what he called his "rational house," an application of Enlightenment thinking to the design of a proper living environment for the citizens of the world's most recent democracy. Establishing a new benchmark in Latrobe studies, Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon extend their analysis to Latrobe's training and career in England and Europe, his principles of design, and his methods of architectural practice. The authors trace the evolution of his design thinking through analytical essays on all of his major domestic commissions and conclude with a summary discussion of his position within the international architectural scene, his design theories, the integration of interior design and engineering into his architectural practice, and the preservation of his houses.
The domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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This researched and illustrated study catalogs all of Latrobe's domestic commissions, offering an authoritative treatment of the concepts, designs, and unique interior and exterior features of his houses. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an English émigré and the first professional architect of international stature to practice in the United States, invented an American house type for the new democratic republic. Calling upon his diverse education and travel experiences in Europe and his training with eminent architects and engineers in London, Latrobe responded to American manners and climate by producing what he called his "rational house," an application of Enlightenment thinking to the design of a proper living environment for the citizens of the world's most recent democracy. Establishing a new benchmark in Latrobe studies, Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon extend their analysis to Latrobe's training and career in England and Europe, his principles of design, and his methods of architectural practice. The authors trace the evolution of his design thinking through analytical essays on all of his major domestic commissions and conclude with a summary discussion of his position within the international architectural scene, his design theories, the integration of interior design and engineering into his architectural practice, and the preservation of his houses.
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March 2006, Baltimore
March 2006, Baltimore
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Une médiathèque à Troyes
Une médiathèque à Troyes
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Monographie sur la médiathèque de Troyes. Photographies de Philippe Ruault. Contient un DVD.
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Monographie sur la médiathèque de Troyes. Photographies de Philippe Ruault. Contient un DVD.
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December 2005, Paris
December 2005, Paris
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Une médiathèque à Troyes
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Monographie sur la médiathèque de Troyes. Photographies de Philippe Ruault. Contient un DVD.
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Monographie sur la médiathèque de Troyes. Photographies de Philippe Ruault. Contient un DVD.
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December 2005, Paris
December 2005, Paris
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), architecte du roi. Créateur inspiré du siècle des Lumières, bâtisseur visionnaire, utopiste et écrivain d'inspiration maçonnique, l'architecte Claude Nicolas Ledoux exerça d'abord son art avec succès comme ingénieur et dans le domaine privé sous le règne de Louis XV. Protégé de Mme du Barry, il édifia - outre de nombreux hôtels(...)
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), architecte du roi. Créateur inspiré du siècle des Lumières, bâtisseur visionnaire, utopiste et écrivain d'inspiration maçonnique, l'architecte Claude Nicolas Ledoux exerça d'abord son art avec succès comme ingénieur et dans le domaine privé sous le règne de Louis XV. Protégé de Mme du Barry, il édifia - outre de nombreux hôtels(...)
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), architecte du roi. Créateur inspiré du siècle des Lumières, bâtisseur visionnaire, utopiste et écrivain d'inspiration maçonnique, l'architecte Claude Nicolas Ledoux exerça d'abord son art avec succès comme ingénieur et dans le domaine privé sous le règne de Louis XV. Protégé de Mme du Barry, il édifia - outre de nombreux hôtels particuliers - le pavillon de Louveciennes, le château de Bénouville, celui de Maupertuis et réalisa la décoration du Café militaire. Puis, architecte du roi, il construisit sous Louis XVI la saline d'Arc-et-Senans commandée par Louis XV avant sa mort et les barrières de Paris ; en province, avec la construction du théâtre de Besançon, il fit progresser la réforme des lieux de spectacle. Tombé en disgrâce à la Révolution, il fut incarcéré à la Force en 1793. Empêché d'exercer, il commence la rédaction de "L'architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des mœurs et de La législation". Ce texte, superbement illustré de projets grandioses qui rendent compte de la surprenante modernité de sa vision, offre à la postérité toute l'étendue de la puissance créatrice de Ledoux et une solide réflexion sur l'implication sociale et politique de l'architecture. Lors des réformes urbanistiques de Paris au XIXe siècle, ses constructions furent pour les trois quarts détruites. En s'appuyant sur ce qu'il reste encore actuellement de ses édifices, sur les estampes de ses projets et réalisations ainsi que sur ses écrits, qui témoignent de ses aspirations, cet ouvrage propose de retracer le parcours de Ledoux à travers une étude approfondie de son œuvre. Cette étude s'accompagne de celle, indissociable, du contexte historique particulièrement mouvementé dans lequel Ledoux vécut et s'articule autour d'une analyse sensible de la question du progrès des arts.
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Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), architecte du roi. Créateur inspiré du siècle des Lumières, bâtisseur visionnaire, utopiste et écrivain d'inspiration maçonnique, l'architecte Claude Nicolas Ledoux exerça d'abord son art avec succès comme ingénieur et dans le domaine privé sous le règne de Louis XV. Protégé de Mme du Barry, il édifia - outre de nombreux hôtels particuliers - le pavillon de Louveciennes, le château de Bénouville, celui de Maupertuis et réalisa la décoration du Café militaire. Puis, architecte du roi, il construisit sous Louis XVI la saline d'Arc-et-Senans commandée par Louis XV avant sa mort et les barrières de Paris ; en province, avec la construction du théâtre de Besançon, il fit progresser la réforme des lieux de spectacle. Tombé en disgrâce à la Révolution, il fut incarcéré à la Force en 1793. Empêché d'exercer, il commence la rédaction de "L'architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des mœurs et de La législation". Ce texte, superbement illustré de projets grandioses qui rendent compte de la surprenante modernité de sa vision, offre à la postérité toute l'étendue de la puissance créatrice de Ledoux et une solide réflexion sur l'implication sociale et politique de l'architecture. Lors des réformes urbanistiques de Paris au XIXe siècle, ses constructions furent pour les trois quarts détruites. En s'appuyant sur ce qu'il reste encore actuellement de ses édifices, sur les estampes de ses projets et réalisations ainsi que sur ses écrits, qui témoignent de ses aspirations, cet ouvrage propose de retracer le parcours de Ledoux à travers une étude approfondie de son œuvre. Cette étude s'accompagne de celle, indissociable, du contexte historique particulièrement mouvementé dans lequel Ledoux vécut et s'articule autour d'une analyse sensible de la question du progrès des arts.
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November 2005, Paris
November 2005, Paris
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First monograph examining the projects of this young German architect which are considered forceful in their minimalist expressiveness.
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First monograph examining the projects of this young German architect which are considered forceful in their minimalist expressiveness.
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Axel Nieberg architect : sublime creation
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First monograph examining the projects of this young German architect which are considered forceful in their minimalist expressiveness.
Axel Nieberg architect : sublime creation
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First monograph examining the projects of this young German architect which are considered forceful in their minimalist expressiveness.
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December 2005, Hamburg
December 2005, Hamburg
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Buildings by EGM architects are designed in order to be used. Unfortunately architecture photography usually ignores this aspect. Five photographers have been shooting different buildings while they are being used, and in the process recording architecture at its lively moment. Photographs by Martijn van de Griendt, Frank Hanswijk, Eline Hensen, Ellen Kok, Otto Snoek.
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Buildings by EGM architects are designed in order to be used. Unfortunately architecture photography usually ignores this aspect. Five photographers have been shooting different buildings while they are being used, and in the process recording architecture at its lively moment. Photographs by Martijn van de Griendt, Frank Hanswijk, Eline Hensen, Ellen Kok, Otto Snoek.
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December 2005, Amsterdam
December 2005, Amsterdam
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EGM architecten : on a weekday / doordeweeks
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Buildings by EGM architects are designed in order to be used. Unfortunately architecture photography usually ignores this aspect. Five photographers have been shooting different buildings while they are being used, and in the process recording architecture at its lively moment. Photographs by Martijn van de Griendt, Frank Hanswijk, Eline Hensen, Ellen Kok, Otto Snoek.
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Buildings by EGM architects are designed in order to be used. Unfortunately architecture photography usually ignores this aspect. Five photographers have been shooting different buildings while they are being used, and in the process recording architecture at its lively moment. Photographs by Martijn van de Griendt, Frank Hanswijk, Eline Hensen, Ellen Kok, Otto Snoek.
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December 2005, Amsterdam
December 2005, Amsterdam
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
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The life and architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) have been much-studied, yet there is a consistent division between analyses of his architecture, which exclude any discussion of his daily life, and books that tell the often sensational tale of his life, with barely a passing reference to the buildings themselves. The result is that, despite the large number of(...)
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The life and architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) have been much-studied, yet there is a consistent division between analyses of his architecture, which exclude any discussion of his daily life, and books that tell the often sensational tale of his life, with barely a passing reference to the buildings themselves. The result is that, despite the large number of(...)
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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The life and architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) have been much-studied, yet there is a consistent division between analyses of his architecture, which exclude any discussion of his daily life, and books that tell the often sensational tale of his life, with barely a passing reference to the buildings themselves. The result is that, despite the large number of volumes on Wright, the most essential part of his life – his life as an architect, working, as he said, ‘in the cause of architecture’ – remains virtually unexplored. "Frank Lloyd Wright" offers an account of Wright’s life as an architect, the ideas, beliefs and relationships that shaped his life and work, and the manner in which these affected, and are reflected in, his architecture. During a tumultuous life and extensive career which includes such hugely defining buildings as the Guggenheim Museum, Fallingwater, Taliesin, Unity Temple, and the prolific Prairie Houses, Wright endeavoured to shape the emerging and evolving American democracy, its mode of dwelling, and its relation to the traditional conception of the city. Fusing ancient construction geometries with contemporary ideals of Transcendental philosophy, Wright sought to develop an appropriate architecture for the new world of the twentieth century. In doing so, he served as the primary inspiration for the emergence of Modern architecture around the world. Robert McCarter examines how Wright’s architecture crystallized key conceptions of both private dwelling and public citizenship for American society, and relates how, through his work and writings, Wright developed relationships with key leaders of the arts, industry and society. He analyses how and why Wright maintained that architecture was the ‘background or framework’ for daily life, never the literal ‘object’ of our attention, as well as Wright’s belief that architects have the most significant ethical responsibilities to improve the larger society and culture to which they belong. In exploring Wright’s life, times and culture, Robert McCarter shows how Wright was an architect of astonishing ability, whose works continue to shape the world around us, fifty years after his death.
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The life and architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) have been much-studied, yet there is a consistent division between analyses of his architecture, which exclude any discussion of his daily life, and books that tell the often sensational tale of his life, with barely a passing reference to the buildings themselves. The result is that, despite the large number of volumes on Wright, the most essential part of his life – his life as an architect, working, as he said, ‘in the cause of architecture’ – remains virtually unexplored. "Frank Lloyd Wright" offers an account of Wright’s life as an architect, the ideas, beliefs and relationships that shaped his life and work, and the manner in which these affected, and are reflected in, his architecture. During a tumultuous life and extensive career which includes such hugely defining buildings as the Guggenheim Museum, Fallingwater, Taliesin, Unity Temple, and the prolific Prairie Houses, Wright endeavoured to shape the emerging and evolving American democracy, its mode of dwelling, and its relation to the traditional conception of the city. Fusing ancient construction geometries with contemporary ideals of Transcendental philosophy, Wright sought to develop an appropriate architecture for the new world of the twentieth century. In doing so, he served as the primary inspiration for the emergence of Modern architecture around the world. Robert McCarter examines how Wright’s architecture crystallized key conceptions of both private dwelling and public citizenship for American society, and relates how, through his work and writings, Wright developed relationships with key leaders of the arts, industry and society. He analyses how and why Wright maintained that architecture was the ‘background or framework’ for daily life, never the literal ‘object’ of our attention, as well as Wright’s belief that architects have the most significant ethical responsibilities to improve the larger society and culture to which they belong. In exploring Wright’s life, times and culture, Robert McCarter shows how Wright was an architect of astonishing ability, whose works continue to shape the world around us, fifty years after his death.
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March 2006, London
March 2006, London
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin building has become an icon of modern architecture. And the fact that it was demolished only forty-six years after its 1904 completion makes Jack Quinan’s study of the building — which housed a Buffalo, New York, soap company — all the more valuable. Quinan’s history draws on engineering documents, personal accounts of the building, and(...)
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin building has become an icon of modern architecture. And the fact that it was demolished only forty-six years after its 1904 completion makes Jack Quinan’s study of the building — which housed a Buffalo, New York, soap company — all the more valuable. Quinan’s history draws on engineering documents, personal accounts of the building, and(...)
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin building : myth and fact
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin building has become an icon of modern architecture. And the fact that it was demolished only forty-six years after its 1904 completion makes Jack Quinan’s study of the building — which housed a Buffalo, New York, soap company — all the more valuable. Quinan’s history draws on engineering documents, personal accounts of the building, and other papers he acquired from the family of Darwin D. Martin, a Larkin executive who proposed commissioning Wright to design the company’s offices. With access to these rare sources, Quinan reveals how a young Wright landed the commission and traces the evolution of his cutting-edge plans. Quinan then takes Wright studies to a new level, examining the Larkin building as a structure at the center of economic and personal relationships. Illustrated with more than one hundred photographs, floor plans, maps, and diagrams, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building provides a concise but complete record of how the building was conceived, built, evaluated, and finally demolished in what has been called a tragic loss for American architecture.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin building : myth and fact
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin building has become an icon of modern architecture. And the fact that it was demolished only forty-six years after its 1904 completion makes Jack Quinan’s study of the building — which housed a Buffalo, New York, soap company — all the more valuable. Quinan’s history draws on engineering documents, personal accounts of the building, and other papers he acquired from the family of Darwin D. Martin, a Larkin executive who proposed commissioning Wright to design the company’s offices. With access to these rare sources, Quinan reveals how a young Wright landed the commission and traces the evolution of his cutting-edge plans. Quinan then takes Wright studies to a new level, examining the Larkin building as a structure at the center of economic and personal relationships. Illustrated with more than one hundred photographs, floor plans, maps, and diagrams, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building provides a concise but complete record of how the building was conceived, built, evaluated, and finally demolished in what has been called a tragic loss for American architecture.
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May 2006, Chicago, London
May 2006, Chicago, London
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
