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"During a career that spanned more than 70 years, Frank Lloyd Wright became America's best known and most celebrated architect. He remains the single greatest influence on twentieth-century design in America, and was the first American to exert significant influence on the international scene. Famous for his innovative use of the immediate environment as an element in his designs, Wright was the architect most sought after for creating new private...
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The work of Walker & Gillette, one of the leading architectural firms of the twentieth century, is documented with an extensive text and over 800 illustrations. These include many unpublished works by the company and by architect Joseph Mordecai Hirschman, whose passion for old world buildings influenced their design. The first half of the twentieth century featured a wide variety of architectural styles, including Classicism, Art Deco, and Modernism,...
4) A Testament
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"Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is one of the great figures of 20th century architecture and his fame has gone beyond the American context, where most of his built work is located. Several of his projects have become emblematic, notably the famous House on the Cascade and the Guggenheim Museum in New York inaugurated the year of his death. Wright published A Testament at the age of 90, having already published an Autobiography. Thus, freed from the...
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American architecture of the Romantic Period- the earlier nineteenth century- produced many strange and many charming buildings and a notably wide variety of ideas about architecture. Men as diverse as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Jefferson, the sculptor Horatio Greenough and the landscape gardener Andrew Jackson Downing concerned themselves with the art of building. During this period, architecture underwent a revolution as great as that which took...
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300 plates in this oversized book (9" x 12") faithfully reproduce the details of Frank Lloyd Wright's drawings. Great care was taken to photograph the handwritten notes, erasures, and corrections of this great architect. The drawings are for houses (big & small), apartment & industrial buildings, skyscrapers, churches, floating cabins, bridges, motels, community centers, an amusement park, a sports pavilion, a summer colony, a self-service garage,...
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Covers Wright's life and work. Includes 3-D simulated walk-throughs of the Robie House, the Ennis-Brown House, and the Larkin building; an illustrated database on Wright's work, with text from seven books; a computer-aided design system to allow the user to create Wright-style architecture; and a multimedia chronology of the events and influences that shaped Wright's life and work, with images, audio and video clips, and text.
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"Winner of the 2004 AIA Firm of the Year Award, Lake/Flato has been designing practical buildings since 1984. These are buildings whose ingenuity and craftsmanship merge tradition with new technologies. Their work seeks a modern vernacular yet builds upon the traditions of regional architecture by adapting local materials and craft to build well-sited structures that recognize the need for comfort and a strong connection to nature. As William Turnbull...
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During the occupation of France in World War II the silhouette of the Eiffel Tower against the Paris skyline offered hope to the Free French Underground. For most of the world, the Eiffel Tower is France. It is light and hope, poetry and magic. Her home is in the heart of free people everywhere.
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Conception and birth, growth and maturity, aging and death - these are important moments in the human life story. They are also stages in the existence of a building, says the author of this unconventional history of the rituals and practices that surround built structures in America. Drawing on sources as varied as Masonic manuals, promotional brochures, janitorial contracts, tourist guidebooks, and religious texts, the cultural historian Neil Harris...
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Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings is the first monograph to focus solely on more than fifteen years of the firm's nonresidential work. Divided thematically, it contains over thirty projects, each thoroughly documented with extensive photography and drawings. The introduction to the book, as well as those to each section, is an unusually personal essay, discussing Stern's education in the era of functionalist Modernism, his efforts to further and even to...
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