Frank Lloyd Wright's Living Space

Frank Lloyd Wright's Living Space
Author: Gail Satler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2000-04
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780875805863

This sociological analysis of Wright's architecture examines the interaction between people and the spaces they create. Satler shows how Wright explored a new architectural dimension, the space in which we live. Focusing on the Larkin Building (1904) and Unity Temple (1907), works that Wright considered important but that have received little attention, Satler delineates the social nature of space. She provides an analytic framework through which to understand Wright's buildings and his writings, revealing how the history of such works and cultural landscapes offer a basis for making social, political, and spatial choices about the future. Wright's specific architectural works provide a framework for constructing social histories of places and people because his designs represent a natural way to build and to live within a larger social landscape. This original study will appeal to sociologists, architects, urban and architectural historians, urban planners and anthropologists, and those interested in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Women and the Making of the Modern House

Women and the Making of the Modern House
Author: Alice T. Friedman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780300117899

Investigates how women patrons of architecture were essential catalysts for innovation in domestic architectural design. This book explores the challenges that unconventional attitudes and ways of life presented to architectural thinking, and to the architects themselves.

Writings on Wright

Writings on Wright
Author: Harold Allen Brooks
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1981
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262520867

These writings cover Wright's personality and life style, Wright's clients and his work, the discovery of Wright by Europeans, and more recent evaluations by Lewis Mumford and Reyner Banham, among others.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace

Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace
Author: David V. Mollenhoff
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780299155001

The story of the decades-long struggle to build a civic center in Madison, Wisconsin.

The New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement

The New Eco-Architecture: Alternatives from the Modern Movement
Author: Colin Porteous
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136408495

The New Eco-Architecture builds a historical bridge between architectural science and design. It seeks to address neglected aspects of the Modern Movement as a prelude to supporting a diversity of architectural insight and experimentation aimed at twenty-first century environmental needs and priorities. The attitudes and influences of renowned figures are re-examined in relation to current issues of architectural sustainability. By setting today's green architectural quest within a twentieth century context, and evaluating the main protagonists with regard to a modern eco-sensitive lineage, the book will be of primary interest to architectural students, academics and practitioners. However, it should also intrigue historians, theoreticians and critics, who tend to gloss over such issues, as well as other disciplines engaged with the built environment.