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The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright

Author : Neil Levine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691167532
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright written by Neil Levine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect’s work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright’s projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century. Levine overturns the conventional view of Wright as an architect who deplored the city and whose urban vision was limited to a utopian plan for a network of agrarian communities he called Broadacre City. Rather, Levine reveals Wright’s larger, more varied, interesting, and complex urbanism, demonstrated across the span of his lengthy career. Beginning with Wright’s plans from the late 1890s through the early 1910s for reforming residential urban neighborhoods, mainly in Chicago, and continuing through projects from the 1920s through the 1950s for commercial, mixed-use, civic, and cultural centers for Chicago, Madison, Washington, Pittsburgh, and Baghdad, Levine demonstrates Wright’s place among the leading contributors to the creation of the modern city. Wright’s often spectacular designs are shown to be those of an innovative precursor and creative participant in the world of ideas that shaped the modern metropolis. Lavishly illustrated with drawings, plans, maps, and photographs, this book features the first extensive new photography of materials from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives. The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright will serve as one of the most important books on the architect for years to come.

The Living City

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 : 9780452006393
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Living City written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by Plume. This book was released on 1970-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master architect of the twentieth century unfolds his revolutionary idea for a city of the future, a ... solution to the ills of urbanization whereby man can attain dignity in his home, his work, his community. [The book] not only presents [the author's] ... plans for his model community, Broadacre City, but also provides a[n] ... overview of the architect's opinions on crucial contemporary problems such as overcentralization, dehumanized values, and the waning sovereignty of the individual. This volume includes the great model of Broadacre City itself ... -Back cover.

Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America

Author : Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262600224
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America written by Donald Leslie Johnson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For his critics and biographers, the 1930s have always been the most challenging period of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. This account uses the architect's long-inaccessable archives at Taliesin West to provide a balanced evaluation of Wright in the 1930s. It separates Wright's design activities from his self-promotion and places his philosophy of individualism within the context of the times.

The Gaia Atlas of Cities

Author : Herbert Girardet
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9781856750974
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Gaia Atlas of Cities written by Herbert Girardet and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 100 years global urban populations have expanded from 15 to 50%. Urban growth patterns are changing the face of the earth and the condition of humanity. This atlas addresses these key issues, and analyses the problems of expanding cities.

Broadacre City

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Broadacre City written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Out of Place

Author : Michael Hough
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300052237
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Out of Place written by Michael Hough and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hough argues that the monotony of the modern landscape is a reflection of society's indifference to the diversity inherent in ecological systems and in human communities. He uses world-wide case studies to show how built areas work and how designers can maintain the identities of different places.

The Physical City

Author : Neil L. Shumsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135603057
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Physical City written by Neil L. Shumsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Part of a series that brings together more than 200 scholarly articles pertaining to the history and development of urban life in the United States during the past two centuries. The physical development of cities and their infrastructure is considered in Volume 2, which focuses on city planning and its origins in the Rural Cemetery Movement, the City Beautiful Movement, and the role of business in advocating more rational and efficient urban places. Volume 2 also contains articles about essential aspects of the urban infra structure and the provision of basic services essential for urban survival—water, sewer, and transportation systems.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Author : Barry Bergdoll
Publisher : Moma
ISBN 13 : 9781633450264
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright written by Barry Bergdoll and published by Moma. This book was released on 2017 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published 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.

Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century

Author : Robert Fishman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262560238
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century written by Robert Fishman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1982-09-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The utopian visions of three of urban planning’s greatest visionaries. Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, hated the cities of their time with an overwhelming passion. The metropolis was the counter-image of their ideal cities, the hell that inspired their heavens. In this book Robert Fishman examines the utopian visions of three of urban planning’s greatest visionaries. Howard created the concept of the “garden city” where shops and cottages formed the center of a geometric pattern with farmland surrounding; Wright conceived of “Broadacre City,” the ultimate suburb, where the automobile was king; and Le Corbusier imagined “Ville Radieuse,” the city of cruciform skyscrapers set down in open parkland.

The Limitless City

Author : Oliver Gillham
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781597263498
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book The Limitless City written by Oliver Gillham and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great debates of our time concerns the predominant form of land use in America today -- the all too familiar pattern of commercial and residential development known as sprawl. But what do we really know about sprawl? Do we know what it is? Where did it come from? Is it really so bad? If so, what are the alternatives? Can anything be done to make it better? The Limitless City offers an accessible examination of those and related questions. Oliver Gillham, an architect and planner with more than twenty-five years of experience in the field, considers the history and development of sprawl and examines current debates about the issue. The book: offers a comprehensive definition of sprawl in America traces the roots of sprawl and considers the factors that led to its preeminence as an urban and suburban form reviews both its negative impacts (loss of open space, increased pollution, gridlock) as well as its positive aspects (economic development, personal freedom, privacy) considers responses to sprawl including "smart growth," urban growth boundaries, regional planning, and the New Urbanism looks at what can be done to improve and counterbalance sprawl The author argues that whether we like it or not, sprawl is here to stay, and only by understanding where it came from and why it developed will we be able to successfully address the problems it has created and is likely to create in the future. The Limitless City is the first book to provide a realistic look at sprawl, with a frank recognition of its status as the predominant urban form in America, now and into the near future. Rather than railing against it, Gillham charts its probable future course while describing critical efforts that can be undertaken to improve the future of sprawl and our existing urban core areas.

City Life

Author : Witold Rybczynski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476737347
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book City Life written by Witold Rybczynski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In City Life, Witold Rybczynski, bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, looks at what we want from cities, how they have evolved, and what accounts for their unique identities. In this vivid description of everything from the early colonial settlements to the advent of the skyscraper to the changes wrought by the automobile, the telephone, the airplane, and telecommuting, Rybczynski reveals how our urban spaces have been shaped by the landscapes and lifestyles of the New World.

History of Architectural Theory

Author : Hanno-Walter Kruft
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568980102
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book History of Architectural Theory written by Hanno-Walter Kruft and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.

Realizations of Usonia

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Hudson River Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Realizations of Usonia written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by Hudson River Museum. This book was released on 1985 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cosmopolis

Author : Howard Mansfield
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412848598
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolis written by Howard Mansfield and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, c1990.

Encyclopedia of Urban Studies

Author : Ray Hutchison
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412914329
Total Pages : 1081 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Urban Studies written by Ray Hutchison and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia about various topics relating to urban studies.

Landscape and Utopia

Author : Jody Beck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 135105371X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Landscape and Utopia written by Jody Beck and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. The period between the 1890s and the 1940s was a fertile time for utopian thinking. Significant geographic shifts of large populations; radically altered relations between capital and labor; rapid technological developments; large investments in transportation and energy infrastructure; and repetitive economic disruptions motivated many individuals to wholly reimagine society – including the connections between social relations and the built environment. Landscape and Utopia examines the role of landscapes in the political imaginations of the Garden City, the Radiant City, and Broadacre City. Each project uses landscapes to propose a reconstruction of the relationships between land, labor, and capital but - while the projects are well-known – the role played by landscapes has been largely left unexamined. Similarly, the radical anti-capitalism that underpinned each project has similarly been, for the most part, left out of contemporary discussions. This book sets these projects within a historical and philosophical context and opens a discussion on the role of landscapes in society today. This book will be a must-read for instructors, students, and researchers of the history and theory of landscape architecture, planning, and architecture as well as utopian studies, cultural and social history, and environmental theory.

Wright and New York

Author : Anthony Alofsin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300243804
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Wright and New York written by Anthony Alofsin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “immensely valuable” dual biography of the iconic American architect and the city that transformed his career in the early twentieth century (Francis Morrone, New Criterion). Frank Lloyd Wright took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors. Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright’s life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan.