Title On Frank Lloyd Wright's concrete adobe : Irving Gill, Rudolph Schindler and the American Southwest / Donald Leslie Johnson

Published Burlington : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013 Farnham, Surrey Burlington, VT Ashgate, [2013] ©2013

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Description xxviii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Series Studies in architecture Ashgate studies in architecture series. Contents 1. Questions, events ...and precast concrete -- 2. The buildings -- 3. The Taylors and the Griffins -- 4. Tiles and blocks -- 5. Wright's fiction -- 6. Historian's fiction -- 7. Irving Giull, regionalism and concrete adobe -- 8. Closure ...Schindler and resurgence Summary 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 Analysis Australian Notes Library copy signed by the author Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Gill, Irving, 1870-1936 -- Criticism and interpretation. Gill, Irving, 1870-1936 -- Influence. Schindler, R. M. (Rudolph M.), 1887-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation. Schindler, R. M. (Rudolph M.), 1887-1953 -- Influence. Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 -- Criticism and interpretation. Architects -- United States. Concrete blocks. Concrete houses -- California -- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Concrete masonry -- History. Concrete masonry -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies. Concrete masonry. Genre/Form Case studies. LC no. 2013003632 ISBN 1409428176 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781409428176 (hardback : alk. paper)

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