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Donald Leslie Johnson - On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe - 9781138245846 - V9781138245846
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On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe

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Description for On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe paperback. Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; AMVD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 174. Weight in Grams: 480.
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, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
Series
Ashgate Studies in Architecture
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138245846
SKU
V9781138245846
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Reviews for On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe
’Don Johnson is an authority on Frank Lloyd Wright. He is also an experienced architectural historian who takes nothing for granted, and tenaciously goes back to basics - the original documents, the buildings themselves, and their historical context - when investigating tendentious historical claims. This challenging study of Wright’s five concrete block houses deals with what was perhaps a minor ... Read more

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