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In 1999, historians at the Virginia Historical Society acquired three curiously bound volumes of drawings and documents created between 1821 and 1858 by a long — and unjustifiably — forgotten architect named Thomas R. Blackburn. Further inspection revealed that these were, in fact, no ordinary documents, but a unique window onto the life of a distinguished builder and(...)
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In 1999, historians at the Virginia Historical Society acquired three curiously bound volumes of drawings and documents created between 1821 and 1858 by a long — and unjustifiably — forgotten architect named Thomas R. Blackburn. Further inspection revealed that these were, in fact, no ordinary documents, but a unique window onto the life of a distinguished builder and(...)
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In Jefferson's shadow : the architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn
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In 1999, historians at the Virginia Historical Society acquired three curiously bound volumes of drawings and documents created between 1821 and 1858 by a long — and unjustifiably — forgotten architect named Thomas R. Blackburn. Further inspection revealed that these were, in fact, no ordinary documents, but a unique window onto the life of a distinguished builder and his revered master : Thomas Jefferson. In these extraordinary books, we find Blackburn, at first a young carpenter, engaged in the construction of Jefferson's famed "academical village" at the University of Virginia. He simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of architectural study, guided, it appears, by Jefferson himself. The drawings he executed in the four decades that followed — extraordinary ink and watercolor explorations of his many residential and civic commissions — bear witness to his emergence as a mature and prolific architect in his own right. "In Jefferson's shadow" is a unique document of the relationship between an unknown but highly skilled country builder and the American statesman widely considered this nation's first gentleman architect. But it is also an indispensable resource on the little-understood practice of architecture in the early and mid-nineteenth century.
In Jefferson's shadow : the architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn
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In 1999, historians at the Virginia Historical Society acquired three curiously bound volumes of drawings and documents created between 1821 and 1858 by a long — and unjustifiably — forgotten architect named Thomas R. Blackburn. Further inspection revealed that these were, in fact, no ordinary documents, but a unique window onto the life of a distinguished builder and his revered master : Thomas Jefferson. In these extraordinary books, we find Blackburn, at first a young carpenter, engaged in the construction of Jefferson's famed "academical village" at the University of Virginia. He simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of architectural study, guided, it appears, by Jefferson himself. The drawings he executed in the four decades that followed — extraordinary ink and watercolor explorations of his many residential and civic commissions — bear witness to his emergence as a mature and prolific architect in his own right. "In Jefferson's shadow" is a unique document of the relationship between an unknown but highly skilled country builder and the American statesman widely considered this nation's first gentleman architect. But it is also an indispensable resource on the little-understood practice of architecture in the early and mid-nineteenth century.
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août 2006, New York
août 2006, New York
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Architecture, monographies
Architecture, monographies
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En septembre 2002, les plus grands spécialistes de l'architecture, se sont réunis à Nantes pour débattre de l'action des architectes de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle dans les villes de la façade atlantique. Parmi les différents artistes, c'est surtout Jacques V Gabriel (1667-1742) qui se distingue tout particulièrement. Architecte parisien de renommé - Premier(...)
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En septembre 2002, les plus grands spécialistes de l'architecture, se sont réunis à Nantes pour débattre de l'action des architectes de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle dans les villes de la façade atlantique. Parmi les différents artistes, c'est surtout Jacques V Gabriel (1667-1742) qui se distingue tout particulièrement. Architecte parisien de renommé - Premier(...)
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Jacques V Gabriel et les architectes de la façade atlantique
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En septembre 2002, les plus grands spécialistes de l'architecture, se sont réunis à Nantes pour débattre de l'action des architectes de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle dans les villes de la façade atlantique. Parmi les différents artistes, c'est surtout Jacques V Gabriel (1667-1742) qui se distingue tout particulièrement. Architecte parisien de renommé - Premier ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées avant de devenir premier architecte du roi - il a oeuvré aussi bien à Paris qu'en Province, et notamment dans les plus grandes villes de la façade atlantique (Bordeaux, Nantes, Rennes, Lorient).
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En septembre 2002, les plus grands spécialistes de l'architecture, se sont réunis à Nantes pour débattre de l'action des architectes de la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle dans les villes de la façade atlantique. Parmi les différents artistes, c'est surtout Jacques V Gabriel (1667-1742) qui se distingue tout particulièrement. Architecte parisien de renommé - Premier ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées avant de devenir premier architecte du roi - il a oeuvré aussi bien à Paris qu'en Province, et notamment dans les plus grandes villes de la façade atlantique (Bordeaux, Nantes, Rennes, Lorient).
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avril 2004, Paris
avril 2004, Paris
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Steven Holl
Steven Holl
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Steven Holl is revered among architects and students for his quiet and consistent modernist buildings. His reputation among generations of students was cemented during his early tenure at Columbia University and his founding of Storefront for Art and Architecture. His Pamphlet Architecture series furthered his standing as a leader of the avant-garde. With his embrace of(...)
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Steven Holl is revered among architects and students for his quiet and consistent modernist buildings. His reputation among generations of students was cemented during his early tenure at Columbia University and his founding of Storefront for Art and Architecture. His Pamphlet Architecture series furthered his standing as a leader of the avant-garde. With his embrace of(...)
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Steven Holl is revered among architects and students for his quiet and consistent modernist buildings. His reputation among generations of students was cemented during his early tenure at Columbia University and his founding of Storefront for Art and Architecture. His Pamphlet Architecture series furthered his standing as a leader of the avant-garde. With his embrace of computer technology, Holl smoothly transitioned from the 1980s into the digital design era of the 1990s. At the same time, his practice expanded globally and his housing projects in Japan opened to international acclaim. Recently, the ultramodern design of his Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art earned high praise for its revitalizing influence on Helsinki's city center. Remarkably, this monograph is the only book available that documents Holl's full career, covering his early houses of the 1970's to his latest designs for museums currently under construction.
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Steven Holl is revered among architects and students for his quiet and consistent modernist buildings. His reputation among generations of students was cemented during his early tenure at Columbia University and his founding of Storefront for Art and Architecture. His Pamphlet Architecture series furthered his standing as a leader of the avant-garde. With his embrace of computer technology, Holl smoothly transitioned from the 1980s into the digital design era of the 1990s. At the same time, his practice expanded globally and his housing projects in Japan opened to international acclaim. Recently, the ultramodern design of his Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art earned high praise for its revitalizing influence on Helsinki's city center. Remarkably, this monograph is the only book available that documents Holl's full career, covering his early houses of the 1970's to his latest designs for museums currently under construction.
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novembre 2003, New York
novembre 2003, New York
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In the first major book on the beautiful and richly varied residential designs of John Russell Pope, "Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope" highlights the extraordinary houses of one of the 20th Century’s most prolific architects. John Russell Pope (1873–1937) was an architect of tradition and a master of pro-portion, massing, and(...)
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In the first major book on the beautiful and richly varied residential designs of John Russell Pope, "Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope" highlights the extraordinary houses of one of the 20th Century’s most prolific architects. John Russell Pope (1873–1937) was an architect of tradition and a master of pro-portion, massing, and(...)
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août 2004, New York
août 2004, New York
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Mastering tradition : the residential architecture of John Russell Pope
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In the first major book on the beautiful and richly varied residential designs of John Russell Pope, "Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope" highlights the extraordinary houses of one of the 20th Century’s most prolific architects. John Russell Pope (1873–1937) was an architect of tradition and a master of pro-portion, massing, and scale. Drawing on a personal palette rich in historic precedents from ancient Greece to colonial America, Pope created original and refined designs that embodied the aspirations of the United States as an emerging world power. Both his private and public work - which includes the National Gallery of Art and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial - possess a poise and confidence that emanated from a disciplined approach to architectural design formed by his experiences at home and abroad. In the brief span of 35 years, Pope and his office designed several hundred buildings and monuments, including over 100 houses. His residential work spans a wide array of styles, and comprises vast estates - with integrated ensembles of living, work, and leisure buildings - town houses, country retreats, and a series of jewel-like mausoleums. The common thread running through all his work is a total mastery of the design vocabulary. In this first comprehensive and lavishly illustrated survey of his residential work, author James Garrison delves into Pope’s design sources and methods, and demonstrates how an apparently diverse body of work is related to the common theme of mastering tradition.
Mastering tradition : the residential architecture of John Russell Pope
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In the first major book on the beautiful and richly varied residential designs of John Russell Pope, "Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope" highlights the extraordinary houses of one of the 20th Century’s most prolific architects. John Russell Pope (1873–1937) was an architect of tradition and a master of pro-portion, massing, and scale. Drawing on a personal palette rich in historic precedents from ancient Greece to colonial America, Pope created original and refined designs that embodied the aspirations of the United States as an emerging world power. Both his private and public work - which includes the National Gallery of Art and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial - possess a poise and confidence that emanated from a disciplined approach to architectural design formed by his experiences at home and abroad. In the brief span of 35 years, Pope and his office designed several hundred buildings and monuments, including over 100 houses. His residential work spans a wide array of styles, and comprises vast estates - with integrated ensembles of living, work, and leisure buildings - town houses, country retreats, and a series of jewel-like mausoleums. The common thread running through all his work is a total mastery of the design vocabulary. In this first comprehensive and lavishly illustrated survey of his residential work, author James Garrison delves into Pope’s design sources and methods, and demonstrates how an apparently diverse body of work is related to the common theme of mastering tradition.
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août 2004, New York
août 2004, New York
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In 1999, the galecian government decided to conceive a City of Culture for Galicia, as a place for study and research, a place for drawing together the galician cultural expression and social interaction with the rest of Europe. Peter Eisenman has turned the stone of the new buildings into forms that rise organically from Santiago de Compostela, where The City of(...)
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In 1999, the galecian government decided to conceive a City of Culture for Galicia, as a place for study and research, a place for drawing together the galician cultural expression and social interaction with the rest of Europe. Peter Eisenman has turned the stone of the new buildings into forms that rise organically from Santiago de Compostela, where The City of(...)
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mai 2004, New York
mai 2004, New York
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Codex : the City of Culture of Galicia
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In 1999, the galecian government decided to conceive a City of Culture for Galicia, as a place for study and research, a place for drawing together the galician cultural expression and social interaction with the rest of Europe. Peter Eisenman has turned the stone of the new buildings into forms that rise organically from Santiago de Compostela, where The City of Culture for Galicia has been built.
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In 1999, the galecian government decided to conceive a City of Culture for Galicia, as a place for study and research, a place for drawing together the galician cultural expression and social interaction with the rest of Europe. Peter Eisenman has turned the stone of the new buildings into forms that rise organically from Santiago de Compostela, where The City of Culture for Galicia has been built.
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mai 2004, New York
mai 2004, New York
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Analyzing Ambasz
Analyzing Ambasz
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Architect, museum curator, and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz is perhaps most renowned for projects that fuse architecture and landscape—high-rise buildings enveloped in verdant screens of trees and plants, and houses that virtually disappear beneath mounds of earth. It has been said that his work defies easy categorization and analysis, and terms such as poetry,(...)
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Architect, museum curator, and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz is perhaps most renowned for projects that fuse architecture and landscape—high-rise buildings enveloped in verdant screens of trees and plants, and houses that virtually disappear beneath mounds of earth. It has been said that his work defies easy categorization and analysis, and terms such as poetry,(...)
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mai 2004, New York
mai 2004, New York
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Analyzing Ambasz
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Architect, museum curator, and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz is perhaps most renowned for projects that fuse architecture and landscape—high-rise buildings enveloped in verdant screens of trees and plants, and houses that virtually disappear beneath mounds of earth. It has been said that his work defies easy categorization and analysis, and terms such as poetry, wonder, and myth are often ascribed to his designs. In this penetrating collection of essays, prominent scholars and architects take up the challenge and set about rigorously "analyzing Ambasz."
Analyzing Ambasz
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Architect, museum curator, and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz is perhaps most renowned for projects that fuse architecture and landscape—high-rise buildings enveloped in verdant screens of trees and plants, and houses that virtually disappear beneath mounds of earth. It has been said that his work defies easy categorization and analysis, and terms such as poetry, wonder, and myth are often ascribed to his designs. In this penetrating collection of essays, prominent scholars and architects take up the challenge and set about rigorously "analyzing Ambasz."
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mai 2004, New York
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In 1986 a new Barcelona Pavilion was completed on the site of the original 1929 German Pavilion in Barcelona. That same year marked the 150th anniversary of photography and the centenary of Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). Since then, much has been written about all three, jointly and singly. Whilst the literature on Mies van der Rohe has more than doubled in the past(...)
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In 1986 a new Barcelona Pavilion was completed on the site of the original 1929 German Pavilion in Barcelona. That same year marked the 150th anniversary of photography and the centenary of Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). Since then, much has been written about all three, jointly and singly. Whilst the literature on Mies van der Rohe has more than doubled in the past(...)
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Building desire : on the Barcelona pavilion
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In 1986 a new Barcelona Pavilion was completed on the site of the original 1929 German Pavilion in Barcelona. That same year marked the 150th anniversary of photography and the centenary of Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). Since then, much has been written about all three, jointly and singly. Whilst the literature on Mies van der Rohe has more than doubled in the past fifteen years, no scholar has yet to seriously study, at any length, the unique phenomenon that was, is and will continue to be the Barcelona Pavilion. "Building desire" focuses on the pavilion's image of an enduring myth of modernity.
Building desire : on the Barcelona pavilion
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In 1986 a new Barcelona Pavilion was completed on the site of the original 1929 German Pavilion in Barcelona. That same year marked the 150th anniversary of photography and the centenary of Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). Since then, much has been written about all three, jointly and singly. Whilst the literature on Mies van der Rohe has more than doubled in the past fifteen years, no scholar has yet to seriously study, at any length, the unique phenomenon that was, is and will continue to be the Barcelona Pavilion. "Building desire" focuses on the pavilion's image of an enduring myth of modernity.
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janvier 2005, London, New York
janvier 2005, London, New York
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Architecture, monographies
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Architecture et liberté
Architecture et liberté
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Né à Gênes en 1919, l'auteur est un des architectes italiens les plus connus et appréciés dans le monde, notamment pour la finesse de l'insertion de ses réalisations modernes dans des centres anciens comme ceux d'Urbino, Pavie, Catane et Venise. Rigoureux et ouvert comme peuvent l'être ceux qui approchent de la pensée anarchiste, il livre ici sa réflexion sur le métier(...)
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Né à Gênes en 1919, l'auteur est un des architectes italiens les plus connus et appréciés dans le monde, notamment pour la finesse de l'insertion de ses réalisations modernes dans des centres anciens comme ceux d'Urbino, Pavie, Catane et Venise. Rigoureux et ouvert comme peuvent l'être ceux qui approchent de la pensée anarchiste, il livre ici sa réflexion sur le métier(...)
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Architecture et liberté
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Né à Gênes en 1919, l'auteur est un des architectes italiens les plus connus et appréciés dans le monde, notamment pour la finesse de l'insertion de ses réalisations modernes dans des centres anciens comme ceux d'Urbino, Pavie, Catane et Venise. Rigoureux et ouvert comme peuvent l'être ceux qui approchent de la pensée anarchiste, il livre ici sa réflexion sur le métier d'architecte, indisociable selon lui, de son engagement social.
Architecture et liberté
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Né à Gênes en 1919, l'auteur est un des architectes italiens les plus connus et appréciés dans le monde, notamment pour la finesse de l'insertion de ses réalisations modernes dans des centres anciens comme ceux d'Urbino, Pavie, Catane et Venise. Rigoureux et ouvert comme peuvent l'être ceux qui approchent de la pensée anarchiste, il livre ici sa réflexion sur le métier d'architecte, indisociable selon lui, de son engagement social.
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mars 2004, Paris
mars 2004, Paris
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Alberto Kalach
Alberto Kalach
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This book brings together the most recent buildings and projects by the Mexican architect Alberto Kalach, with particular emphasis on the first steps of the process of each of these. As if it were a sort of log or sketch pad, the book sets out to highlight the essence of his ideas and the immediacy of his first few pencil strokes. Structured typologically, the tour(...)
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This book brings together the most recent buildings and projects by the Mexican architect Alberto Kalach, with particular emphasis on the first steps of the process of each of these. As if it were a sort of log or sketch pad, the book sets out to highlight the essence of his ideas and the immediacy of his first few pencil strokes. Structured typologically, the tour(...)
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Alberto Kalach
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This book brings together the most recent buildings and projects by the Mexican architect Alberto Kalach, with particular emphasis on the first steps of the process of each of these. As if it were a sort of log or sketch pad, the book sets out to highlight the essence of his ideas and the immediacy of his first few pencil strokes. Structured typologically, the tour through Kalach's work takes in single-family houses, apartment buildings, various designs for tower blocks and his famous project for the lake city (awarded a prize at the 2002 Venice Biennale), in which he proposes rehydrating the dried up aquiferous areas of Mexico City.
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This book brings together the most recent buildings and projects by the Mexican architect Alberto Kalach, with particular emphasis on the first steps of the process of each of these. As if it were a sort of log or sketch pad, the book sets out to highlight the essence of his ideas and the immediacy of his first few pencil strokes. Structured typologically, the tour through Kalach's work takes in single-family houses, apartment buildings, various designs for tower blocks and his famous project for the lake city (awarded a prize at the 2002 Venice Biennale), in which he proposes rehydrating the dried up aquiferous areas of Mexico City.
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janvier 1900, Barcelona
janvier 1900, Barcelona
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The Charnley house : Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the making of Chicago's Gold Coast
The Charnley house : Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the making of Chicago's Gold Coast
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Situated in Chicago's famed Gold Coast, just north of the Magnificent Mile, the Charnley house is one of the finest dwellings in the city and considered worldwide to be a stunning example of avant-garde architecture. Now the headquarters of the Society of Architectural Historians and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998, the house was built in 1892 at a(...)
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Situated in Chicago's famed Gold Coast, just north of the Magnificent Mile, the Charnley house is one of the finest dwellings in the city and considered worldwide to be a stunning example of avant-garde architecture. Now the headquarters of the Society of Architectural Historians and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998, the house was built in 1892 at a(...)
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The Charnley house : Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the making of Chicago's Gold Coast
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Situated in Chicago's famed Gold Coast, just north of the Magnificent Mile, the Charnley house is one of the finest dwellings in the city and considered worldwide to be a stunning example of avant-garde architecture. Now the headquarters of the Society of Architectural Historians and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998, the house was built in 1892 at a critical moment in urban and architectural history. "The Charnley House" is the first authoritative publication on the building, which has long been discussed in surveys but never before examined in detail. In this collection of original essays, six well-known architectural historians illuminate various aspects of the house, both inside and out, as they consider its remarkable formal and spatial qualities, its historical significance in the development of Chicago's elite residential neighborhood, and its place in the context of American domestic architecture. Equally important, the contributors tackle the knotty, decades-old issue concerning the building's designer. While many have ascribed the scheme to Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan's chief assistant at the time, this book sheds new light on how the house relates significantly to the work of both master and apprentice. The continuing debate over the house's "authorship" highlights the importance of the Charnley house in the history of modern architecture as the seminal work of residential design in the United States. These thoroughly researched interpretations, supplemented by an abundance of never before published illustrations, analyze this house of distinction with the care and detail it deserves. Beautifully restored in late 1980s, the Charnley house now has a book worthy of it.
The Charnley house : Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the making of Chicago's Gold Coast
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Situated in Chicago's famed Gold Coast, just north of the Magnificent Mile, the Charnley house is one of the finest dwellings in the city and considered worldwide to be a stunning example of avant-garde architecture. Now the headquarters of the Society of Architectural Historians and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998, the house was built in 1892 at a critical moment in urban and architectural history. "The Charnley House" is the first authoritative publication on the building, which has long been discussed in surveys but never before examined in detail. In this collection of original essays, six well-known architectural historians illuminate various aspects of the house, both inside and out, as they consider its remarkable formal and spatial qualities, its historical significance in the development of Chicago's elite residential neighborhood, and its place in the context of American domestic architecture. Equally important, the contributors tackle the knotty, decades-old issue concerning the building's designer. While many have ascribed the scheme to Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan's chief assistant at the time, this book sheds new light on how the house relates significantly to the work of both master and apprentice. The continuing debate over the house's "authorship" highlights the importance of the Charnley house in the history of modern architecture as the seminal work of residential design in the United States. These thoroughly researched interpretations, supplemented by an abundance of never before published illustrations, analyze this house of distinction with the care and detail it deserves. Beautifully restored in late 1980s, the Charnley house now has a book worthy of it.
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mai 2004, Chicago
mai 2004, Chicago
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Architecture, monographies
Architecture, monographies
