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Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Houses

Door Alan Hess

Categorie
Algemeen Architectuur & Bouwkunde
Boeknummer
#315208-WA21
Titel
Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Houses
Auteur
Hess, Alan
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York : Rizzoli
Jaar van uitgave
2006
ISBN10
0847828581
ISBN13
9780847828586
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original pictorial cquare boards, circa 26x26cm, photographs in colour by Alan Weintraub.
Samenvatting
With the advent of Prairie style architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright embarked on a journey that would forever change the course of architecture. During this extraordinarily prolific period, roughly the first quarter of the twentieth century, Wright built the first great modern American houses. He cast aside many of the conventions of the past, opening up interior spaces so that there might be a more subtle flow of rooms. The plans for Prairie style architecture were based on a tartan plaid of main spaces and secondary spaces, of public rooms and circulation spaces. Their decentralized asymmetry did not follow the Beaux Arts insistence on a primary, often dominating, focal point—a vestige of its roots as a symbolic architecture for divine-right royalty. Following Wright's philosophy, Pra... (Lees verder)irie design was emphatically democratic and non-hierarchical. Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Houses comprehensively demonstrates this philosophy. Focusing on interiors and details, the book features more than 70 Prairie style houses and other buildings, still extant, in lavish, full-color photography.
Pagina's
274
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 30,00

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