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Download or read book Bruce Goff written by Arn Henderson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned today as one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904–1982) was only twelve years old when a Tulsa architectural firm took him on as an apprentice. Throughout his career he defied expectations, not only as a designer of innovative buildings but also as a gifted educator and painter. This beautifully illustrated volume, featuring more than 150 photographs, architectural drawings, and color plates, explores the vast multitude of ideas and themes that influenced Goff’s work. Tracing what he calls Goff’s “path of originality,” Arn Henderson begins by describing two of Goff’s earliest and most significant influences: the architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the French composer Claude Debussy. As Henderson explains, Goff embraced from a young age Wright’s ideal of organic expression, where all elements of a building’s design are integrated into a unified whole. Although Goff’s stylistic dependence on Wright eventually waned, the music of Debussy, with its qualities of mystery and “discipline in freedom,” was a perpetual source of inspiration. Henderson also emphasizes Goff’s identification with the American West, particularly Oklahoma, where he developed most of his ideas and created many of his masterful buildings. Goff served as a professor at the University of Oklahoma between 1947 and 1955, becoming the first chair of its School of Architecture. The new studio course he introduced was a pivotal development, ensuring that his ideas were imparted to the next generation of architects. Part biography of a well-known architect, part analysis of Goff’s work, this book is also a finely woven tapestry of information and interpretation that encompasses the ideas and experiences that shaped Goff’s artistic vision over his lifetime. Based on scores of interviews with Goff’s associates and former students, as well as the author’s firsthand study of Goff’s extant buildings, this volume deepens our appreciation of the great architect’s lasting legacy.
Download or read book Renegades written by Luca Guido and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like America itself, the architecture of the United States is an amalgam, an imitation or an importation of foreign forms adapted to the natural or engineered landscape of the New World. So can there be an "American School" of architecture? The most legitimate claim to the title emerged in the 1950s and 1960s at the Gibbs College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma, where, under the leadership of Bruce Goff, Herb Greene, Mendel Glickman, and others, an authentically American approach to design found its purest expression, teachable in its coherence and logic. Followers of this first truly American school eschewed the forms most in fashion in American architectural education at the time—those such as the French Beaux Arts or German Bauhaus Schools—in favor of the vernacular and the organic. The result was a style distinctly experimental, resourceful, and contextual—challenging not only established architectural norms in form and function but also traditional approaches to instructing and inspiring young architects. Edited by Luca Guido, Stephanie Pilat, and Angela Person, this volume explores the fraught history of this distinctively American movement born on the Oklahoma prairie. Renegades features essays by leading scholars and includes a wide range of images, including rare, never-before-published sketches and models. Together these essays and illustrations map the contours of an American architecture that combines this country’s landscape and technology through experimentation and invention, assembling the diversity of the United States into structures of true beauty. Renegades for the first time fully captures the essence and conveys the importance of the American School of architecture.
Download or read book Bruce Goff written by Bruce Goff and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Architecture of Bruce Goff by : Jeffrey Cook
Download or read book The Architecture of Bruce Goff written by Jeffrey Cook and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Architecture of Bruce Goff, 1904-1982 by : Bruce Goff
Download or read book The Architecture of Bruce Goff, 1904-1982 written by Bruce Goff and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the work of the American architect Bruce Goff
Book Synopsis The Architecture of Bruce Goff by : Jeffrey Cook
Download or read book The Architecture of Bruce Goff written by Jeffrey Cook and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goff on Goff written by Philip B. Welch and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, when Goff was head of the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture, Oklahoma emerged as the nation's most daring, avant-garde training ground in the discipline. This book, edited by Philip B. Welch, is compiled from tapes recorded with Goff's permission by Welch, who was one of Goff's students, a longtime friend, and himself a prominent teacher of architecture, Goff on Goff embodies some of the architect's most stimulating lectures and conversations. They have never before been available to readers. Goff's now-legendary teaching method was to throw his students back onto themselves. He stressed honesty: honesty to materials and honesty to the creative impulse, the client, the total environment. An advocate of Gertrude Stein's "continuous present", Goff himself embodied the idea: the torrents of words, ideas, and exhortations that rolled from his tongue held his hearers spellbound. The material reflects the breadth of Goff's mind and interests. A lifelong lover of the music of Debussy, he devotes much of one session to the composer's influence on his architectural work. To paraphrase Goff on music and architecture, ideas, not forms, are the best starting point for structuresand he once designed a house starting with the requirement that it have a revolving door. Goff praises traditional Japanese culture for its homogeneity - and immediately urges his students not to be daunted by the problems of diversity.
Book Synopsis The Architecture of Bart Prince by : Christopher Curtis Mead
Download or read book The Architecture of Bart Prince written by Christopher Curtis Mead and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a look at new buildings by Bart Prince, this book examines the work of a uniquely American contemporary architect. The work of Bart Prince is recognized internationally for both its seminal creative vision and for carrying on an American tradition of individualism in architecture originating with Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Bruce Goff. Prince shares with these pioneers a fundamental way of thinking about modern American architecture, which in his work he has combined with a firm belief in the experiential impact of a building to render a contemporary style all his own. Originally published a decade ago, this updated version includes five new houses, demonstrating the architect’s maturing style and continued commitment to creating transcendent experiences in manipulated space. Stunning photographs and floor plans bring the reader as close as possible to experiencing these uniquely formed, magnificent buildings. A remarkable collaboration between the author, the photographer, and the architect, The Architecture of Bart Prince is the only comprehensive introduction to one of the most creative architects practicing in America today.
Book Synopsis Bruce Goff by : David Gilson De Long
Download or read book Bruce Goff written by David Gilson De Long and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1988 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Goff's designs for homes, churches, hotels, lodges, fraternity houses, and studios and discusses his unusual approach to architecture.
Download or read book Goff on Goff written by Philip B. Welch and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architect Bruce Goff was not afraid to be different. One of the most innovative designers the United States has produced in the twentieth century-a member of a select band that included Frank Lloyd Wright (with whom Goff worked), Louis Sullivan, and Mies Van der Rohe-he rode the crest of the architectural wave that swept through the country with the post-World War II technological revolution. In the 1950s, when Goff was head of the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture, Oklahoma emerged as the nation’s most daring, avant-garde training ground in the discipline. This book, edited by Philip B. Welch, is compiled from tapes recorded with Goff’s permission by Welch, who was one of Goff’s students, a longtime friend, and himself a prominent teacher of architecture. Goff on Goff embodies some of the architect’s most stimulating lectures and conversations. They have never before been available to readers. Goff’s now-legendary teaching method was to throw his students back onto themselves. He stressed honesty: honesty to materials and honesty to the creative impulse, the client, the total environment. An advocate of Gertrude Stein’s "continuous present," Goff himself embodied the idea: the torrents of words, ideas, and exhortations that rolled from his tongue held his hearers spellbound. The material reflects the breadth of Goff’s mind and interests. A lifelong lover of the music of Debussy, he devotes much of one session to the composer’s influence on his architectural work. To paraphrase Goff on music and architecture, ideas, not forms, are the best starting point for structures-and he once designed a house starting with the requirement that it have a revolving door. Goff praises traditional Japanese culture for its homogeneity-and immediately urges his students not to be daunted by the problems of diversity. Recalling the enthusiasm Goff’s students felt for the future of architecture, Welch points out that the material is as pertinent today as it was when Goff delivered it.
Book Synopsis Outside the Pale by : Euine Fay Jones
Download or read book Outside the Pale written by Euine Fay Jones and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honored with the 1990 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for a lifetime of outstanding achievement, Fay Jones is an Arkansas original. In receiving the medal from Prince Charles of Great Britain, Jones was hailed as a “powerful and special genius who embodies nearly all the qualities we admire in an architect” and as an artist who used his vision to craft “mysterious and magical places” not only in Arkansas but all over the world. This book accompanied a special museum exhibit of Jones’s life and work at the Old State House in Little Rock. It traces Jones’s development from his early years as a student of Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff, to the culmination of his ability in such arresting structures as Pinecote Pavilion in Picayune, Mississippi; Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas; and Chapman University Chapel in Orange, California. Through the black-and-white photographs of the homes, chapels, and other buildings that Jones has created and the accompanying captions and interviews of the architect, the reader is allowed a view into this man’s remarkable talent. Designing structures that fuse architecture and landscape, the organic and the man-made, Jones has created special places which touch their viewers with the power and subtlety of poetry. Herein we learn why. From the Foreword by Robert Adams Ivy Jr.: “Fay Jones’s architecture begins in order and ends in mystery. . . . His role can perhaps best be understood as mediator, a human consciousness that has arisen from the Arkansas soil and scoured the cosmos, then spoken through the voices of stone and wood, steel and glass. Art, philosophy, craft, and human aspiration coalesce in his masterworks, transformed from acts of will into harmonies: Jones lets space sing.”
Download or read book Bruce Goff written by Bruce Goff and published by Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Goff: A Creative Mind explores the legacy of architect Bruce Goff (1904-1982), one of the most experimental and innovative architects of the twentieth century. A proponent of organic architecture, Goff envisioned fantastic structures inspired by the natural world. This catalogue, published in conjunction with the 2010 exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the Price Tower Art Center, surveys Goff's career as an architect, interior designer, and artist with a special focus on twelve buildings that were demolished or never realized. The catalogue includes an examination of those buildings that were recreated for the exhibition by Skyline Ink Animation Studios as animations and three-dimensional renderings. Through extensive research of surviving blueprints, construction documents, and renderings, the animations offered a virtual experience of Goff's works and were displayed on a large structure known as the "Pod," created by the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture. The catalogue includes new insights on Goff and his work with essays by Joe D. Price, Brian Eyerman, Hans E. Butzer, Sidney K. Robinson, Kay L. Johnson, Scott W. Perkins, and Mark A. White.
Book Synopsis Bruce Goff and His Architecture by : Paul Nicholas Nicolaides
Download or read book Bruce Goff and His Architecture written by Paul Nicholas Nicolaides and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tale of Tomorrow by : Robert Klanten
Download or read book The Tale of Tomorrow written by Robert Klanten and published by Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The retro-futuristic epoch is one of the most visually spectacular in architecture's history. The utopian buildings of the 1960s and 1970s never go out of style. This book compiles radical ideas and visionary structures. The notion of utopia proves as diverse as it does universal. From exuberant master plans to singular architectural expressions, the rise of the utopian architectural movement in the 1960s and 1970s represents a critical shift in ideology away from mid-century traditionalism. This period shakes off the conformity and conventions of the 1950s in favor of a more experimental post-war agenda. Marked by groundbreaking reinterpretations of both the single family house as well as more large scale developments, the embrace of utopian and generally progressive thinking mirrored the cultural revolution of the times. These daring, charming, futuristic, and hopeful designs were not isolated to a particular part of the world. Visionary voices longing for a fresh approach to architecture began appearing across France, Japan, the United States, and beyond. The Tale of Tomorrow documents this prolific era in architecture--a time when anything felt possible as architects began to think further and further outside the box. The Tale of Tomorrow focuses exclusively on built manifestations of utopian ideas. Rather than mixing together abstract theorists with practitioners, this book focuses on the tangible embodiments of such forward thinking. Highlighting well-known projects as well as the more obscure and offbeat, the collection of utopian approaches compiled here maintain their visual power and infectious optimism nearly half a century later. These experimental structures, both large and small, appear in everyday places in stark contrast to their far-from-utopian contexts. In addition to featuring a range of whimsical architectural gestures, The Tale of Tomorrow also explores more brutalist styles of utopian thinking. This bold and iconic class of projects not only inspires a sense of awe and reverence towards one's surroundings but also demonstrates the broad spectrum of deeply personal solutions at play as each architect began to craft their ideal world. Whether an organically shaped residence or a towering sculptural complex, the projects in this book stand as poignant suggestions of what might have been and, perhaps what could still be.
Book Synopsis Spiral of Stone by : William H. Wilson
Download or read book Spiral of Stone written by William H. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William H. Wilson, long-time architect and Professor of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma, shares memories of his long personal and professional relationship with mid-century master architect Bruce Goff, as well as memories from his experiences building Goff's masterpiece, the Bavinger House.
Book Synopsis The Architecture of Bruce Goff by : David Gilson De Long
Download or read book The Architecture of Bruce Goff written by David Gilson De Long and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Midwest Architecture Journeys by : Zach Mortice
Download or read book Midwest Architecture Journeys written by Zach Mortice and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reexamination of overlooked Midwestern architectural styles
