Frank Lloyd Wright’s Concrete Adobe. By Donald Leslie Johnson. The book provides a unique, in-depth and critical analysis of Wright’s concrete block houses, set within their historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. In particular, it shows the full impact upon Wright of his contemporaries, architects Irving Gill and Rudolph Schindler. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of Wright’s. During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as’uniquely molded’,’woven like a textile fabric’ and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together Wright’s declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to determine their accuracy and correctness, or the possibility of feigned or fictional stories. It examines technical developments of concrete blocks by Wright and others before his experiences in Los Angeles began in 1919. It also studies the manner of Wright’s design process by an examination of relevant pictorial and textual documents. A unique, in-depth and critical analysis of the houses is set within historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of Wright’s, Gill’s and Schindler’s buildings beyond their experiential qualities. Donald Leslie Johnson, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. Taylor & Francis Ltd. X 9.7 in. Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. Please contact Customer Services and request “Return Authorisation” before you send your item back to us. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. Home, Garden & Pets. Sign up to our newsletter to hear about new items and our latest offers. The item “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Concrete Adobe by Donald Leslie Johnson Hardcover Book” is in sale since Thursday, March 16, 2017. This item is in the category “Books\Nonfiction”. The seller is “grandeagleretail” and is located in Fairfield, Ohio. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN-10: 1409428176
- ISBN-13: 9781409428176
- Author: Donald Leslie Johnson
- Publication Year: 20130000
- Language: English
- Educational Level: Scholarly & Professional