An edition of Wright in Hollywood (1994)

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visions of a new architecture

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An edition of Wright in Hollywood (1994)

Wright in Hollywood

visions of a new architecture

Wright in Hollywood, Visions of a New Architecture is the first book to examine a pivotal aspect of Frank Lloyd Wright's career: the so-called textile block system, which he pursued with a sense of mission between 1922 and 1932. Wright began the experiment in southern California, where four houses were built, but he soon demonstrated that the system was capable of a more universal application.

Robert L. Sweeney explores the system's ramifications in each of approximately thirty projects envisioned by Wright, describing the formal and technological evolution that occurred. Though certainly form was the architect's primary concern, he began with structure, working with a sure hand toward a system of construction in which concrete block functioned in every situation. The process of simplification extended to the forms of the buildings as well.

The early, exotic projects, described by Wright himself as "California-Romanza," gave way to designs that seem to acknowledge Wright's awareness of European modernism, which had developed simultaneously.

The textile block system analyzed here continues Wright's exploration of what David De Long describes as "his sweeping view of a landscape as unified by architecture." They show Wright "reexamining his work at every possible level, as if he were questioning his own formulation of the world's first, truly modern architecture."

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English
Pages
271

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Wright in Hollywood: visions of a new architecture
1994, Architectural History Foundation, MIT Press
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Wright in Hollywood: visions ofa new architecture
1994, M. I. T. Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-265) and index.

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New York, N.Y, Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
720/.92
Library of Congress
NA737.W7 S94 1994, NA737.W7.S94 1994, NA737.W7 S94 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 271 p. :
Number of pages
271

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1415626M
Internet Archive
wrightinhollywoo0000swee_t4q7
ISBN 10
026219337X
LCCN
93025104
OCLC/WorldCat
28214043
Library Thing
171413
Goodreads
1986316

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