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This is a reprint of Kathryn Smith's ground-breaking study of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most important and complex commissions. Wright worked on the arts complex and residence for over a decade, and the house he designed for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, Hollyhock, is one of the treasures of Los Angeles. This book was the first to use the extensive Wright files and is illustrated with many rare drawings and period photographs. ... Read more

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Some surprises await the reader
This book is an interesting juxtaposition of two things--Frank Lloyd Wright's complex dealings with a maverick, and some very rare, beautiful photos.

The first part of this is probably of interest to only Frank Lloyd Wright's fans. But those photographs are something else.

Most people know only the exterior of Hollyhock House--cold, forbidding, monolithic; but are unfamiliar with its breathtakingly beautiful interior--in this book, displayed with some photos in vivid color. In my opinion, the interior of this building is the most beautiful of all Frank Lloyd Wright houses; a masterpiece of interior design in the Prairie Style. As an added bonus, there are some extremely rare photos of Residence B--long-demolished, it was a Frank Lloyd Wrightmasterpiece, probablyunique in its use of mitred wood and corbeled posts. (I've never seen a house like it in my entire life).

The photos make this book a must-read, must-have part of your collection, suitable for display on a coffee table.

The best book on Hollyhock House
As the author of this book, I know that I have brought together a collection of drawings, archival photos, plans and drawings made especially for this publication that document and analyze one of Wright's largest and most famous commissions during the period of the 1920s.His work with Aline Barnsdall was extrememly complicated and covered over a decade in his career.My book puts the Hollyhock House in context of the larger commission for Olive Hill.Drawings are reproduced from several sources, mainly the Wright Archives.Hundreds of letters and documents were consulted.A section of color photographs shows the house in detail with fully furnished interior views.This book is a must for the library of every reader interested in Wright.I hope you enjoy it and value it too. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Arts & Activities, published by Publishers' Development Corporation on May 1, 2010. The length of the article is 515 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Becoming an architect: designing and building.(ARCHITECTURE in the ART ROOM)(art project about structures)
Author: Janet Bates
Publication: Arts & Activities (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2010
Publisher: Publishers' Development Corporation
Volume: 147Issue: 4Page: 36(2)

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practical project
A great way to get kids involved in art and building or creating their own homes!It's a practical and easy to follow idea that intermediate students would like.The author is obviously passionate about getting students to have fun with art. ... Read more

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Education is the foundation for achieving sustainable development. With the purpose of facing sustainable challenges in terms of climate change, water and energy consumption, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) has promoted the culture of energy efficiency in new generations of professionals that will work in the field of building construction. A group of 21 students taking the final official Diploma in Architecture were involved in a project of analysis of energy performance of UPC buildings in order to identify and implement cost-effective ways of promoting a greater environmental responsibility. The development of works focused the attention on introducing energy audits in existing university buildings, analysing the following aspects: surveying construction drawings, building characteristics, energy consumption, use of natural lighting, energy-saving lighting controls, water consumption, and high-efficiency HVAC systems. The ultimate goal was to draft a proposal for greater respect for the environment, and for corrective measures aimed at reducing the environmental impacts. ... Read more

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The international residential, commercial, and institutional work that positioned this New York firm among the world's architectural elite is featured in this volume, which takes an unprecedented look at Gwathmey Siegel's contributions over the last 35 years. More than 30 projects are documented in photographs, drawings, and descriptions. From Charles Gwathmey's design and construction of Gwathmey Studio and House to the Levitt Center for University Advancement at the University of Iowa, this is the most complete survey of the firm's work published. It reveals the Gwathmey Siegel design philosophy and certifies why their work, along with that of Frank Gehry, Robert Stern, and Richard Meier, is the most powerful in American architecture.
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Whether it's a house in the Hamptons, an addition to a famous museum, or a new building for an Ivy League campus, contemporary architecture doesn'tget any more coolly, cleanly serviceable than Gwathmey Siegel, the large firm that since 1965 has executed some of the most high-profile private and institutional commissions in the United States (with a few abroad). Gwathmey Siegel's history of concise, user-friendly innovation is well reflectedhere, in this comely monograph of 26 residential, corporate, academic and museum/arts-related projects spanning 35 years; per custom, it should be a hernia-inducing 10-pound hardcover, but instead is a near-palmsized paperback that still manages to convey the sweep and scale of GS's work inits excellent full-color photography with succinct annotationsby firm founder Charles Gwathmey. Appropriately, the fun kicks offwith the now-famous house and nearby studio Gwathmey designed for his parents inthe Hamptons' Amagansett in 1965. Its basic principles of several levels, volumes, and niches intricately carved into a basic cube would play outagain and again in the firm's work, which always manages to cunningly incorporateall sorts of technical solutions and aesthetic charms into volumes whose outer limits possess the simple, geometric logic of buildings that childrenhave long fashioned from a few wooden squares, rectangles, and cylinders. The Gwathmey Residence and the other Hamptons residences featured here (likethe 1972 Cogan and the 1983 de Menil), as well as houses in southernCalifornia, Vermont, and Switzerland, collectively illustrate 35 years of palatial postmodern minimalism, a stripped-down, late 20th-century bookend to the rococo wedding cakes commissioned by the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, andother assorted robber barons of the century just preceding.

But because GS's residential projects, as diversely striking as they are, continuously manage to look (especially from the outside) like anything butplaces where people actually live, the book's subsequent sections offer almost a sense of relief--these are the kinds of projects at which the firmexcels, and those upon which it has built its considerable reputation: the gleaming, Meier-esque white tiles and columns of its 1987 office buildingfor IBM in Greensboro, North Carolina; an ingenious new set of unapologeticallymodern innards (1973) jutting out of the august, old stone exterior of Princeton University's Whig Hall, whose original wood interior wasdestroyed in a fire; an elegantly high-tech Science, Industry and Business Libraryfor New York City (1996); blond wood, luminous marble, and stainless steel fitted inside the 1911 Beaux Arts envelope of the former B. Altmandepartment store; and--perhaps the firm's most high-profile (and controversial) commission to date--the 1992 renovation and addition to Frank Lloyd Wright'slandmark Guggenheim Museum, also in New York City--an undertaking that managed to vastly increase the museum's gallery andadministrative space and address omissions or weaknesses in the original structure, all while linking it to a discreetly handsome limestone rectilinear addition that deferred not to a gamut of political interests but to Wright's originalplans for a proposed annex.

Many other notable projects are included in the book as well, including an array of new buildings for Cornell University and an addition to Harvard's venerable Fogg Museum, not to mention the warm-toned Museum of ContemporaryArt (1996) that has redefined downtown Miami, and a renovation/addition forthe University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery in Seattle (1997). A complex multivolume, multilevel, multiline configuration that somehow manages remarkably to leave the gallery's charming, original red-brick structure from 1927 as its centerpiece, it is this last entry which servesas a fitting final reminder that no one takes simple shapes andfashions them into something chic, clean, and clever quite as deftly or respectfullyas Gwathmey Siegel. --Timothy Murphy ... Read more