Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Years: Progressivism: Aesthetics: Cities

ISBN-13: 9781138601628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 310 str.

Donald Leslie Johnson

Opis

This book analyses Wright’s innovative, profoundly universal theory of architecture that drew upon geometry and notions of the indigenous as he put them into practice and outlines the design methodology which he applied to his domestic and non-domestic buildings.

Spis treści

Part 1: Conditions  1. Reformation and Progressivism  Part 2: The Aesthetics of Progress  2. Education  3. Tutelage  4. Design Generators  5. Architectural Synthesis  6. The Wright School  Part 3: The City Scientific  7. Rousseau to Professionalism  8. Wright’s Community Planning  9. Contraction  Appendices  A. Visual Examination of Geometries  B. Wright’s Yesler Avenue Hotel  C. Further Quadruplets  References  Index

O autorze

Donald Leslie Johnson taught at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, from 1972 until retirement in 1988. He has been an adjunct professor of architectural history at the University of South Australia for twenty years. Previously, he practiced architecture in Seattle, Philadelphia, and Tucson and taught theory and design at Arizona, Washington State, and Adelaide universities. He has written extensively about the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Burley Griffin and Canberra, Australian architectural history, and American and Australian city planning history. He was in Lois I. Kahn's masters class of 1960–61 at the University of Pennsylvania. Johnson was a member of the American Institute of Architects and is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects.