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Book Louis Sullivan and the Architecture of Free Enterprise

Download or read book Louis Sullivan and the Architecture of Free Enterprise written by Art Institute of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Louis Sullivan

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  • Author : Hugh Morrison
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2001-07-31
  • ISBN : 9780393321616
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Louis Sullivan written by Hugh Morrison and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first definitive biography of the now-famous architect, Hugh Morrison's Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture is still the best introduction to his work. This reissue provides Morrison's original text and illustrations in a larger, more modern format. It also offers an assessment of Morrison's ground-breaking research, in Timothy J. Samuelson's Introduction, and, most important, an authoritative revision of the chronological List of Buildings, including corrections of the data in light of six decades of research. Working from Morrison's original notes, Samuelson has restored a number of photographic images intended for the original edition and has replaced some photographs with alternate images that more accurately represent the buildings. He has also added a selected bibliography of important works about Sullivan"--Page 4 of cover

Book Sullivanesque

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  • Author : Ronald E. Schmitt
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2024-04-22
  • ISBN : 0252056280
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Sullivanesque written by Ronald E. Schmitt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique but often overlooked facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan.Highly regarded in architecture for inspiring the Chicago School and the Prairie School, Sullivan was an unwilling instigator of the method of facade composition--later influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, William Gray Purcell, and George G. Elmslie--that came to be known as Sullivanesque. Decorative enhancements with botanical and animal themes, Sullivan's distinctive ornamentation mitigated the hard geometries of the large buildings he designed, coinciding with his "form follows function" aesthetic.Sullivan's designs offered solutions to problems presented by new types and scales of buildings. Widely popular, they were also widely copied, and the style proliferated due to a number of Chicago-based interests, including the Radford Architectural Company and several decorative plaster and terra-cotta companies. Stock replicas of Sullivan's designs manufactured by the Midland Terra Cotta Company and others gave distinction and focus to utilitarian buildings in Chicago's commercial strips and other confined areas, such as the downtown districts of smaller towns. Mass-produced Sullivanesque terra cotta endured as a result of its combined economic and aesthetic appeal, blending the sophistication of high architectural art with the pragmatic functionality of building design.Masterfully framed by the author's photographs of Sullivanesque buildings in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, Ronald E. Schmitt's in-depth exploration of the Sullivanesque tells the story of its evolution from Sullivan's intellectual and aesthetic foundations to its place as a form of commercial vernacular. The book also includes an inventory of Sullivanesque buildings.Honorable Mention recipient of the 2002 PSP Awards for Excellence in Professional/Scholarly Publishing

Book Louis Henri Sullivan

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  • Author : Judith Carolyn Green
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Louis Henri Sullivan written by Judith Carolyn Green and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture written by James Stevens Curl and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 6,000 entries, this is the most authoritative dictionary of architectural history available.

Book Encyclopedia of Interior Design

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Interior Design written by Joanna Banham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 3392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Greece to Frank Lloyd Wright, studiola to smoking rooms, chimney boards to cocktail cabinets, and papier-mâché to tubular steel, the Encyclopedia of Interior Design provides a history of interior decoration and design from ancient times to the present day. It includes more than 500 illustrated entries covering a variety of subjects ranging from the work of the foremost designers, to the origins and function of principal rooms and furnishing types, as well as surveys of interior design by period and nationality all prepared by an international team of experts in the field. Entries on individuals include a biography, a chronological list of principal works or career summary, a primary and secondary bibliography, and a signed critical essay of 800 to 1500 words on the individual's work in interior design. The style and topic entries contain an identifying headnote, a guide to main collections, a list of secondary sources, and a signed critical essay.

Book In Pursuit of Beauty

Download or read book In Pursuit of Beauty written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1986 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This project is the first comprehensive study of a phenomenon that not only dominated the American arts of the 1870s and 1880s, but also helped set the course of such later developments in the United States as the Arts and Crafts movement, the indigenous interpretation of Art Nouveau, and even the rise of modernism. In fact, the early history of the Metropolitan--its founding, its sponsorship of a school of industrial design, and its display of decorative works--is inextricably tied to the Aesthetic movement and its educational goals. "In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement" comprised some 175 objects including furniture, metalwork, stained glass, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, painting, and sculpture. Some of these had rarely been displayed; others, although familiar, were being shown in new and even startling contexts. The exhibition and catalogue are arranged thematically to illustrate both the major styles of a visually rich movement and the ideas that generated its diversity"--From publisher's description.

Book Louis Sullivan

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  • Author : Robert C. Twombly
  • Publisher : Viking Adult
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 552 pages

Download or read book Louis Sullivan written by Robert C. Twombly and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1986 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and accomplishments of the founding father of American architecture.

Book Louis Sullivan

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Louis Sullivan written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Louis Henry Sullivan

Download or read book Louis Henry Sullivan written by Hans Frei and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Louis Sullivan

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  • Author : Charles Lozar
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Louis Sullivan written by Charles Lozar and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Buildings and Their Architects  Progressive and academic ideals at the turn of the twentieth century

Download or read book American Buildings and Their Architects Progressive and academic ideals at the turn of the twentieth century written by William Harvey Pierson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 200 Years of American Architectural Drawing

Download or read book 200 Years of American Architectural Drawing written by David Gebhard and published by Whitney Library of Design. This book was released on 1977 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an exhibit opening in 1977 at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and entitled: 200 years of American architectural drawing.

Book The Curve of the Arch

Download or read book The Curve of the Arch written by Larry Millett and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Women Saved the City

Download or read book How Women Saved the City written by Daphne Spain and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the extensive building projects of these associations - boarding houses, vocational schools, settlement houses, public baths, and playgrounds - she finds evidence of a built environment created by women.".

Book The Design Encyclopedia

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  • Author : Mel Byars
  • Publisher : Museum of Modern Art
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 838 pages

Download or read book The Design Encyclopedia written by Mel Byars and published by Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design has an increasingly high profile - figures like Philippe Starck are as venerated and well known as more traditional artists. But where the literature on fine art is vast, design is still conparatively ill-served. This encyclopedia provides an account of the still largely unknown story of design.