Title: Frank Lloyd Wright I Public Buildings Library of C - Hardcover

Frank Lloyd Wright; I Public Buildings

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Yukio Futagawa (Photographer) (illustrator). First U.S. Printing [stated]. This is one of the Library of Contemporary Architects. 129, [3] pages. Introduction and Notes by Martin Pawley. This was first published in Japan in 1967. New texts have been provided for this English language edition. The contents are Introduction, The Plates, Notes on the plates, Chronological list of public buildings, Select bibliography, and Index. Martin Pawley was a British architecture writer, broadcaster, writer, teacher and critic. Pawley studied architecture at the Oxford School of Architecture, Paris' École des Beaux Arts, and London's Architectural Association. He began his prolific career as a journalist in the 1970s. He burst on the scene in the 1970s as a contributing editor to Architectural Design when it was the liveliest and most influential architectural periodical in the English-speaking world. Over the years he served as editor of Building Design and World Architecture, as news editor and columnist of Architects' Journal, and, for seven years, as architecture critic of the Guardian. Pawley's was a sharp, take-no-prisoners style of journalism, and his writing, when he was in top form, recalled Evelyn Waugh, though he shared none of Waugh's reactionary views, on architecture or anything else. Pawley once called Modernism a "magnificent mutiny against historicism" whose "presence has been central to the fortunes of architecture, whether as an avant-garde tendency, a rising star, a revolutionary challenge, a global orthodoxy, an unmitigated evil, a fallen giant or (perhaps) as a resurgent force that is even now gathering strength." "Frank Lloyd Wright's reputation rests largely on his houses designed for private clients, but as the author notes, 'Wright's lifelong adherence to the rugged individualism of the private did not.prevent him from concerning himself with the problems of society at large.' All of Wright's public buildings reveal the extent of the architect's pioneering techniques and ideas. In 1906, Wright had been among the first to make use of reinforced concrete (Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois), and in 1916-22 he designed the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, where the success of his deep-pile foundations and integrated concrete construction in resisting earthquake damage was later proved. More significant in a social sense were the Larkin Building, Buffalo, New York (1904) - a 'single-purposed social organism' concerned with the productive activity of a large number of collaborating employees - and the Johnson Company's administrative offices (1936-1939) at Racine, Wisconsin, of which Wright himself wrote: 'Organic architecture designed this great building to be as inspiring a place to work in as any cathedral ever was in which to worship.' At Racine too the later tower (1944-50) housing research laboratories reveals the practical application of a much earlier idea: the analogy with a tree, with a tap-root foundation, and the central trunk with cantilevered floors. The aspect of Wright's buildings that the illustrations particularly reveal is his preoccupation with internal space and light which runs through his work - from the clerestory lighting of Unity Temple to the Guggenheim Museum (1959) in New York, with its spiral ramp around a central domed void. Toward the end of Wright's career, social ideas of long standing, notably the utopian Broadacre City concept, were mingled with fantastic ideas for future projects, including a mile-high 528-story skyscraper, which with patriarchal authority he announced to the world. Since his death in 1959 his work, including his last - the posthumously built Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, California - has been continued by the Taliesin Fellowship which he founded.". Artikel-Nr. 89499

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