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Frank Lloyd Wright; Designing Democratic America
Though having achieved considerable fame, by 1909 [Frank Lloyd] Wright recognized the failure of Prairie architecture. He went to Europe and produced the Wasmuth Portfolio, his celebration of and epitaph to the Prairie School. Frank Lloyd Wright; Designing Democratic American Architecture is about the ascension from Prairie to Usonian, Wright's Democratic American architecture, and its fulfillment of Wright's dream. It draws heavily upon the reference standard The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion but, in arranging the materials around design themes, makes what in the Companion is often technical, here open to the neophyte. Yet, in its approach to Wright's source of creativity, it offers new insights to the best-read Wrightian.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
William Allin Storrer, Ph.D., after earning an A.B. in Engineering Sciences at Harvard College where he had been publicity director for the college Gilbert & Sullivan Society and the producer for the Harvard Opera Guild, decamped to Boston University. While earning his M.F.A. in Theatre Arts, Directing, he produced plays for Olawami Ritimi of Nigeria and Göksel Kortay, now a leading personage in Turkish theatre. He also directed a play in French, and his graduate thesis was a rarely allowed original play by Harvard classmate, John Wolfson, Poison Ivy, a look at drugs on Ivy campuses. His Ph.D. dissertation compared Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as drama and film, opening his world to the differences in the two media. Here he shares his insights into Albee's world. Having directed the play, his unique insights that go well beyond what New York and later London critics have offered about the play, he reveals a view that is comprehensive and finally explains both the title and the location of the play as significant elements in understanding Albee's first full-length masterpiece.
The Anonymous Frank Lloyd Wright and the 700 William Street, River Forest Project
The ultimate question remains, "If Wright didn't do it, who did?"We know Harry Robinson didn't design the 700-block William Street houses, or he would have claimed, and had to claim, the project on his application for a government job late in his career. Yet, among his plans that were destroyed, after his death, was #10, "Henry Hogan & Son" with "esq FlW" written on it.While claims might be put forward for William Drummond, Barry Byrne, John van Bergen and others, none so rigorously used the grid as did Wright. Further, in the interiors, transitions from the living room to either dining room or porch, often are as Frank Lloyd Wright would do them, and equally as often as Lloyd Wright, who wa...
Frank Lloyd Wright
Born in Bear Valley, Wisconsin, raised in nearby Richland Center, then Massachusetts before settling in south central Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright always knew that he would be an architect. He wanted to create a Democratic American Architecture. With his Prairie homes, he achieved the first part of his goal, American Architecture. It was based upon geometry, the cruciform/pinwheel and square. With his Usonian houses, he created the next part, Democratic, thus achieving Democratic American Architecture. This was achieved by reducing the Prairie cruciform to a simple L.It is not easy for most to visualize in three dimensions, especially when one must do so from a two-dimensional plan. Yet Wri...
The Anonymous Frank Lloyd Wright and the 700 William Street, River Forest Projec
At the celebration dinner for the completion of the manuscript for The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog, dean of architectural historians Henry-Russell Hitchcock pointedly told me that Frank Lloyd Wright would drive him through the streets of Evanston, River Forest and Oak Park, and Hyde Park, and would point to a building and often say, "I did that, but nobody will ever know." This book offers the 700 William Street houses as houses to which Wright pointed as he drove Hitchcock through the neighborhood so near the architect's home. Those who deny these homes as Wright's designs - yes, there are some - need to show where in River Forest there are any other homes to which Wright could have pointed. Failing that, these homes are by Frank Lloyd Wright, produced anonymously so as to conceal Wright's involvement at a time his scandalous affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney, wife of a client, would have demonized the project. So enjoy the discovery of 27 new homes by America's creator of Prairie architecture as his American architecture, the first stage of his developing a Democratic American architecture. ---William Allin Storrer, Ph.D.
The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Among the many books available on Wright, William Allin Storrer's classic - now fully revised and updated - remains the only authoritative guide to all of Wright's built work.".
Old House Interiors
National architectural magazine now in its fifteenth year, covering period-inspired design 1700–1950. Commissioned photographs show real homes, inspired by the past but livable. Historical and interpretive rooms are included; new construction, additions, and new kitchens and baths take their place along with restoration work. A feature on furniture appears in every issue. Product coverage is extensive. Experts offer advice for homeowners and designers on finishing, decorating, and furnishing period homes of every era. A garden feature, essays, archival material, events and exhibitions, and book reviews round out the editorial. Many readers claim the beautiful advertising—all of it design-related, no “lifestyle” ads—is as important to them as the articles.
Style and Creativity in Design
This book looks at causative reasons behind creative acts and stylistic expressions. It explores how creativity is initiated by design cognition and explains relationships between style and creativity. The book establishes a new cognitive theory of style and creativity in design and provides designers with insights into their own cognitive processes and styles of thinking, supporting a better understanding of the qualities present in their own design. An explanation of the nature of design cognition begins this work, with a look at how design knowledge is formulated, developed, structured and utilized, and how this utilization triggers style and creativity. The author goes on to review histo...
