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On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe - Irving Gill, Rudolph Schindler and the American Southwest (Hardcover, New Ed)
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On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe - Irving Gill, Rudolph Schindler and the American Southwest (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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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 'uniquely
molded', 'woven like a textile fabric' 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 Wright's 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 Wright's 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 Wright's,
Gill's and Schindler's buildings beyond their experiential
qualities.
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