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On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe

- Irving Gill, Rudolph Schindler and the American Southwest

About On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe

During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as ΓÇÖuniquely moldedΓÇÖ, ΓÇÖwoven like a textile fabricΓÇÖ and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together WrightΓÇÖs declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to determine their accuracy and correctness, or the possibility of feigned or fictional stories. It examines technical developments of concrete blocks by Wright and others before his experiences in Los Angeles began in 1919. It also studies the manner of WrightΓÇÖs design process by an examination of relevant pictorial and textual documents. A unique, in-depth and critical analysis of the houses is set within historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. Consequently, the book explains the impact upon Wright of California contemporaries, architects Irving Gill and Rudolph Schindler, and their instrumentally profound role upon the course of modernism 1907-1923. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of WrightΓÇÖs, GillΓÇÖs and SchindlerΓÇÖs buildings beyond their experiential qualities.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781138245846
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 258
  • Published:
  • September 8, 2016
  • Dimensions:
  • 173x244x22 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 474 g.
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Expected delivery: November 13, 2024

Description of On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe

During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as ΓÇÖuniquely moldedΓÇÖ, ΓÇÖwoven like a textile fabricΓÇÖ and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together WrightΓÇÖs declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to determine their accuracy and correctness, or the possibility of feigned or fictional stories. It examines technical developments of concrete blocks by Wright and others before his experiences in Los Angeles began in 1919. It also studies the manner of WrightΓÇÖs design process by an examination of relevant pictorial and textual documents. A unique, in-depth and critical analysis of the houses is set within historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. Consequently, the book explains the impact upon Wright of California contemporaries, architects Irving Gill and Rudolph Schindler, and their instrumentally profound role upon the course of modernism 1907-1923. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of WrightΓÇÖs, GillΓÇÖs and SchindlerΓÇÖs buildings beyond their experiential qualities.

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