Organic Architecture

by Weintraub, Alan

• ISBN13: 9781586858575
• ISBN10: 1586858572
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-25
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Summary

Surveying over 125 years this book traces the trends of organic architecture,rchitecture that interprets a building's design, structure, use, and life asn organic thing. Showcasing the work of architects such as Louis Sullivan,rank Furness, Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff to lesser knowns theserchitects embraced a fresh style that used modern techniques blended with angeless natural landscape. Unexpectedly organic design reflects an exuberant,pulent, and at times extravagant complexity of line, form, texture,tructure, and color. Less is not necessarily more in Organic design.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
1900-1920	p. 12
1920-1940	p. 38
1940-1990	p. 76
1990-Present	p. 186
Acknowledgments	p. 272
Bibliography	p. 273
Reference List	p. 273
Index	p. 274
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Excerpts

It is this book's intention to illuminate the broad brush stroke of Organic residential architecture in America throughout the panorama of twentieth-century Modernism. Organic architecture is a style wide ranging enough to defy easy definition, yet vivid enough for people to know it when they see it. It reached a high point in the mid-twentieth century, but it has roots much deeper in American culture than the European Bauhaus architectural style that combined technology, craftsmanship, and aesthetics. Despite being marginalized at times by the tastemakers and professional magazines, Organic architecture has remained a strong, deep running current in American culture and design. There are, of course, Organic office buildings (the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, by Wright), coffee shops (Pann's in Los Angeles, California, by Armet and Davis), churches (Sea Ranch Chapel in Sea Ranch, California, by James Hubbell), as well as other building types, but for the sake of clarity and comparison the focus of this book is on residences.