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Publisher: Pomegranate
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780764928901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRacine, Wisconsin, which celebrates its role as invention city, welcomed the architectural innovations of Frank Lloyd Wright and is now the site of many examples of Wright's designs of private homes and public structures. Hertzberg, photography director at the Racine Journal Times, has created a history of Wright's work in Racine using photograph
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Publisher: Pomegranate
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780764937613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilt on a bluff near Racine, Wisconsin in 1906, the Thomas P. Hardy House is one of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's most admired residential buildings. In this volume, photojournalist Hertzberg combines text and pictures in a tour of this unusual home, which has come to be regarded as an icon of modern design. Hertzberg is also the author of Wright
Author: Mark Hertzberg
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780764956096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrank Lloyd Wright's SC Johnson Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin, is one of modern architecture's most significant landmarks. Completed in 1950, the fifteen-story skyscraper is the only existing example of Wright's ambitious taproot design. Like limbs from a tree trunk, alternating square floors and round mezzanines branch out from the weight-bearing central core—a truly revolutionary idea at the time and an engineering marvel today.In 1943 H. F. Johnson Jr., president of the SC Johnson & Son Company, commissioned Wright (1867–1959) to create a new laboratory space that would be as innovative as the research and development team working inside it. The architect eagerly accepted the challenge, envisioning a vertical complement to the firm's streamlined Administration Building, designed by Wright seven years prior. The result was a new kind of skyscraper, one with double-height spaces, windows made of Pyrex glass tubing, and stripes of Wright's signature Cherokee red brick, all balanced on a small pedestal base—the Tower's sinewy core. Although the Tower opened to great acclaim in 1950, it closed just thirty-one years later. Despite its ingenious structure, the building ultimately proved to be an impractical model of urban-industrial architecture.Frank Lloyd Wright's SC Johnson Research Tower investigates the rise and fall of this remarkable building. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, provides an insightful Foreword, while Mark Hertzberg's text explores the design, the construction, and—through interviews with Johnson employees—the experience of working within Wright's iconic Tower. A photo essay titled "The Tower Rises" chronicles the construction with historical photographs, and Hertzberg's artful photographs document the Tower—inside and out—as it appears today.
Author: Mark Hertzberg
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Published: 2019-06-03
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0870209108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrank Lloyd Wright is best known for his urban and suburban houses. Lesser known are the more than 40 summer “cottages” he designed in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Many of the early summer cottages have a rustic feel and are not as easily recognized as Wright’s prolific year-round domestic designs. Among them is a stunning estate on Delavan Lake in southern Wisconsin called Penwern. Commissioned by Chicago capitalist Fred B. Jones around 1900, Penwern has received both national and state recognition. The home’s current stewards have dedicated themselves to restoring the estate to Wright’s vision, ensuring its future. Featuring beautiful color photographs, plus vintage black and white pictures and original Wright drawings, this book transports readers back to the glory days of gracious living and entertaining on the lake.
Author: Jonathan Lipman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780486427485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThoroughly researched study of the design and construction of this radical, inspiring workplace draws on much unpublished archival material. From the genesis of the structurally unique Administration Building — its design development, innovations, and furnishings — to the construction and completion of the Research Towers, Lipman presents a wealth of information. 172 black-and-white illustrations.
Author: Bruce LaFontaine
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780486293622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor coloring book enthusiasts and architecture students — 44 finely detailed renderings of Wright home and studio, Unity Temple, Guggenheim Museum, Robie House, Imperial Hotel, more.
Author: Ron McCrea
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2013-10-07
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0870206370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs - many of which have never before been published - author Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, which would be the architect's principal residence for the rest of his life. Photos taken by Wright's associates show rare views of Taliesin under construction and illustrate Wright's own recollections of the first summer there and the craftsmen who worked on the site. The book also brings to life Wright’s "kindred spirit," "she for whom Taliesin had first taken form," Mamah Borthwick. Wright and Borthwick had each abandoned their families to be together, causing a scandal that reverberated far beyond Wright's beloved Wisconsin valley. The shocking murder and fire that took place at Taliesin in August 1914 brought this first phase of life at Taliesin to a tragic end.
Author: Kristin Visser
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrank Lloyd Wright had his summer studio in Spring Green, Wisconsin and his influence, together with that of the prairie school, pervaded the state as businesses and individuals sought this popular style.
Author: Patrick F. Cannon
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the birth and growth of the early-twentieth-century Prairie School, a baker's dozen of architects working in Chicago who designed houses marked by simplicity, honesty of materials, open planning, and organic decoration.
Author: Barry Bergdoll
Publisher: Moma
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781633450264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in conjunction with a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalogue reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar as to nearly preclude critical reexamination. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, the book is a collection of scholarly explorations rather than an attempt to construct a master narrative. Each chapter centers on a key object from the archive that an invited author has "unpacked"-interpreting and contextualizing it, tracing its meanings and connections, and juxtaposing it with other works from the archive, from MoMA, or from outside collections. The publication aims to open up Wright's work to questions, interrogations, and debates, and to highlight interpretations by contemporary scholars, both established Wright experts and others considering this iconic figure from new and illuminating perspectives.
