Wright Sites

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616895907

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Wright Sites by Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Pdf

A comprehensive guide to Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings open to the public—with travel itineraries and information on seventy-four sites. Frank Lloyd Wright’s groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and design aficionados. Covering all the publicly accessible sites across the United States—plus four in Japan—Wright Sites describes the design ideas and history behind each building. The volume also includes suggested destination itineraries for Wright road trips, a list of archives, and a selected bibliography. This revised edition features twenty sites newly opened to the public, up to date descriptions and access information, and new color photographs of each site. The introduction is written by Jack Quinan, a founding member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and author of Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House.

Author : Arlene Sanderson
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568982755

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A Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright Public Places by Arlene Sanderson Pdf

Designed for anyone with an interest in touring major architectural works, the Guidebooks contain historical and descriptive information on key buildings, and practical information including maps, directions, addresses, and references for further reading. A complete catalog of all of Wright's extant, visitable buildings in the United States. In addition to regional maps and suggested weekend- and day-trip itineraries, this handy guide contains descriptions and visitation information for more than 60 projects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030581987

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Arapho National Forest (N.F.), Roosevelt National Forest (N.F.), Joe Wright Reservoir, Land Use Authorization by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas A. Heinz
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780785834427

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The Vision of Frank Lloyd Wright by Thomas A. Heinz Pdf

Architectural genius Frank Lloyd Wright's designs continue to amaze people. This complete collection of his designs brings them to your home.

Author : Timothy R. Gaffney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625848482

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The Dayton Flight Factory: The Wright Brothers & the Birth of Aviation by Timothy R. Gaffney Pdf

The Wright brothers are known around the world as the inventors of the airplane. But few people know Wilbur and Orville invented the airplane in Dayton, Ohio--their hometown--not in North Carolina, where they tested it. Efforts to preserve historic places in the Dayton region where the Wright brothers lived and worked are paying off. Today, you can stroll the Wright brothers' neighborhood, see the original 1905 Wright Flyer III and walk the prairie where they flew it. A project to restore the Wright brothers' factory--the first American factory built to produce airplanes--will complete the picture. In this book, author Timothy R. Gaffney uses historical research and today's aviation heritage sites to retell the story of the Wright brothers from a hometown perspective.

Author : Robert McCarter
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781861895387

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Frank Lloyd Wright by Robert McCarter Pdf

A cultural icon who defined the twentieth-century American landscape, Frank Lloyd Wright has been studied from what seems to be every possible angle. While many books focus on his works, torrid personal life, or both, few solely consider his professional persona, as a man enmeshed in a web of prominent public figures and political ideas. In this new biography, Robert McCarter distills Wright’s life and work into a concise account that explores the beliefs and relationships so powerfully reflected in his architectural works. McCarter examines here how Wright aspired to influence America’s evolving democratic society by the challenges his buildings posed to traditional views of private and public space. He investigates Wright’s relationships with key leaders of art, industry, and society, and how their views came to have concrete significance in Wright’s work and writings. Wright argued that architecture should be the “background or framework” for daily life, not the “object,” and McCarter dissects how and why he aspired to this and other ideals, such as his belief in the ethical duty of architects to improve society and culture. A penetrating study of the foremost pioneer in modern architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright offers a fascinating biographical chronicle that reveals the principles and relationships at the base of Wright’s production.

Author : Catherine Teegarden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781941367476

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How to Think Like Frank Lloyd Wright by Catherine Teegarden Pdf

This amazing book offers a fascinating look into Frank Lloyd Wright's creative process--and offers simple suggestions and activities for unleashing your own imagination Frank Lloyd Wright looked to nature for inspiration. "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you," he famously said. It is "necessary to learn from trees, flowers, shells--objects which contain truths of form following function." How to Think Like Frank Lloyd Wright takes these lessons to heart, transforming this notion into practical exercises that empower you to create original patterns, designs, drawings, structures, and more. Using items found in nature--such as leaves, insects, seashells--and looking at Wright's own sketches, abstractions, and finished works, this book offers a template for aspiring artists and architects to emulate his creative process. Projects such as designing a stained glass window to sketching houses for different habitats, to creating graphics inspired by nature will encourage artists to look at the world in a whole new way This unique exploration of some of Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous works--and the methodology behind them--is part history, part guided sketch book, and most importantly, the perfect tool to spark the imagination of the next generation of visionaries.

Author : Jane King Hession,Debra Pickrel
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1423601017

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Frank Lloyd Wright in New York by Jane King Hession,Debra Pickrel Pdf

'Frank Lloyd wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959', examines the momentous five-year period when one of the world's greatest architects and one of the world's greatest cities coexisted. Authors Jane Hession and Debra Prickel bring each of these unequalled characters to life, exploring the fascinating contradiction between Wright's often-voiced disdain of New York and his pride and pleasure of living in one of the city's greatest landmarks: the Plaza Hotel. From his suite, or 'Taliesin the Third', as it became known, Wright supervised construction of the Guggenheim, sparred with the New York press, and received many famous vistitors such as Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. home...;Michael Carroll, a renowned astronomical and paleo artist for more than twenty years, has done work for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His art has appeared in many magazines, including 'Time', 'National Geographic', 'Sky & Telescope', and ' Asimov's Science Fiction'. One of his paintings flew aboard MIR; another is resting at the bottom of the Atlantic, aboard Russia's ill-fated Mars 96 spacecraft. nd development without constraining

Author : Mark Hertzberg
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780870209116

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Penwern by Mark Hertzberg Pdf

Frank 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 : Andrew Warnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134286621

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Richard Wright's Native Son by Andrew Warnes Pdf

Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world. This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Son a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of reprinted critical essays on Native Son, by James Baldwin, Hazel Rowley, Antony Dawahare, Claire Eby and James Smethurst, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section a chronology to help place the novel in its historical context suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Native Son and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Wright's text.

Author : David V. Mollenhoff,Mary Jane Hamilton
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0299155005

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace by David V. Mollenhoff,Mary Jane Hamilton Pdf

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

Author : Mary Kay Carson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613743157

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The Wright Brothers for Kids by Mary Kay Carson Pdf

This activity book tells the amazing true story of how two bicycle-making brothers from Ohio, with no more than high-school educations, accomplished a feat that forever changed the world. At a time when most people still hadn’t ridden in an automobile, Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first powered, heavier-than-air flying machine. Woven throughout the heartwarming story of the two brothers are activities that highlight their ingenuity and problem-solving abilities as they overcame many obstacles to achieve controlled flight. The four forces of flight—lift, thrust, gravity, and drag—and how the Wright brothers mastered them are explained in clear, simple text. Activities include making a Chinese flying top, building a kite, bird watching, and designing a paper glider, and culminate with an activity in which readers build a rubber-band-powered flyer. Included are photographs just released from the Wright brothers’ personal collection, along with diagrams and illustrations. The history of human flight and its pioneers, a time line, and a complete resource section for students are also provided.

Author : Kristine Hansen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493069156

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin by Kristine Hansen Pdf

America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in 1867 in the rolling hills of Richland Center, Wisconsin, to a family of Unitarians. Even with world-class commissions like New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, his organic architecture remains rooted in Wisconsin’s landscape, from affordable-housing prototypes in Milwaukee to his summer home and architecture school in rural Spring Green. This comprehensive guide to Wright’s designs (and those of his protégés) that are open to the public—as well as insider historical information about sites now demolished, and those available for “drive-bys” only—is for the architecture or history fan looking for tours, overnight stays or creative inspiration.

Author : Jerome Klinkowitz
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780299301446

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Frank Lloyd Wright and His Manner of Thought by Jerome Klinkowitz Pdf

An iconic figure in American culture, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous throughout the world. Although his achievements in architecture are stunning, it is his importance in cultural history, Jerome Klinkowitz contends, that makes Wright the object of such avid and continuing interest. Designing more than just buildings, Wright offered a concept for living that still influences how people conduct their lives today. Wright's innovations in architecture have been widely studied, but this is the most comprehensive and sustained treatment of his thought. Klinkowitz presents a critical biography driven by the architect's own work and intellectual growth, focusing on the evolution of Wright's thinking and writings from his first public addresses in 1894 to his last essay in 1959. Did Wright reject all of Victorian thinking about the home, or do his attentions to a minister's sermon on "the house beautiful" deserve closer attention? Was Wright echoing the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, or was he more in step with the philosophy of William James? Did he reject the Arts and Crafts movement, or repurpose its beliefs and practices for new times? And, what can be said of his deep dissatisfaction with architectural concepts of his own era, the dominant modernism that became the International Style? Even the strongest advocates of Frank Lloyd Wright have been puzzled by his objections to so much that characterized the twentieth century, from ideas for building to styles of living. In Frank Lloyd Wright and His Manner of Thought, Klinkowitz, a widely published authority on twentieth-century literature, thought, and culture, examines the full extent of Wright's books, essays, and lectures to show how he emerged from the nineteenth century to anticipate the twenty-first. Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers

Author : Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317133179

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Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities by Donald Leslie Johnson Pdf

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the theory was a belief that reform of nineteenth-century gluttony should include a contemporary interpretation of its material presence, its bulk and space, its architectural landscape. This book analyzes Wright's innovative, profound theory of architecture that drew upon geometry and notions of pure design and the indigenous as put into practice. It outlines the design methodology that he applied to domestic and non-domestic buildings and presents reasons for the recognition of two Wright Styles and a Wright School. The book also studies how his design method was applied to city planning and implications of historical and theoretical contexts of the period that surely influenced all of Wright's community and city planning.