Three American Architects

by O'Gorman, James F.

• ISBN13: 9780226620725
• ISBN10: 0226620727
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-09-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

O'Gorman discusses the individual and collective achievement of the recognized trinity of American architecture: Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86), Louis Sullivan (1856-1924), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). He traces the evolution of forms created during these architects' careers, emphasizing the interrelationships among them and focusing on the designs and executed buildings that demonstrate those interrelationships. O'Gorman also shows how each envisioned the building types demanded by the growth of nineteenth-century cities and suburbs--the downtown skyscraper and the single-family home. [A] brilliant analysis . . . a major contribution to our understanding of the beginnings of modern American architecture."--David Hamilton Eddy, Times Higher Education Supplement.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xv
Introduction: Muse, Master, and Man	1	(8)
Disciplining the Picturesque	9	(26)
Buildings for City and Suburb	35	(34)
Form Follows Precedent	69	(24)
The Tall Office Building Inconsistently Considered	93	(20)
A Long Foreground	113	(20)
The Prairie House	133	(22)
Glossary	155	(2)
Selected Reading	157	(4)
Index	161