An American Architecture : Frank Lloyd Wright /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaufmann, Edgar (ed.)
Format: Monografía
Language:English
Published: Nueva York, Estados Unidos : Horizon Press, 1955
Table of Contents:
  • Editor's note / Edgar Kaufmann
  • Architecture presents man : Prefatory
  • What is architecture?
  • Organic structure in nature
  • Creativity
  • The place of the machine in architecture
  • Architecture is poetry
  • Trust in life
  • The importance of folk building
  • Aphorisms on architecture
  • The law of change
  • From Generals to Particulars : Preliminary
  • Integrity
  • One thing instead of many things
  • Earth-line and human scale - the sense of shelter
  • The early days of Organic Architecture
  • Obstacles and protests : The destruction of the box
  • Exterior effects
  • The architect's limitations
  • The architect and "the system"
  • Architect and client
  • Two ways to see a house
  • The sanitary slum
  • The nature of materials : Preliminary
  • Light
  • Glass
  • Brick
  • Wood
  • Concrete
  • Sheet Metal
  • Tall buildings
  • Some case histories : The Larkin Building
  • Unity temple
  • Taliesin
  • The Imperial Hotel
  • Ocatillo
  • San Marcos
  • The Johnson Administration Building
  • Wingspread
  • The Small House
  • The Zoned House
  • The New Theatre
  • Out of the ground into the light : Earth
  • Wisconsin
  • Prairie
  • Desert
  • Site
  • Where principle is put to work there will always be style I : Continuity
  • Interior space come throught
  • Integral ornament
  • Where principle is put to work there will always be style II : From structure comes form and style
  • The characteristic in architecture
  • The discipline of ideals
  • Simplicity
  • Principle at work in Japan
  • The future of organic architecture : Forecast
  • To the young man in architecture
  • Source list and Acknowledgments.