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Structure: the essence of architecture / by Wilson, Forrest

Table of Contents: “…Preface - Structure - Space - Man in space - Space communication - Structured man - Size in no accident - Structure - Optimization - Forces - Balance - Frustrating flexure - Columns and beams - Curves of compression - Vaults and domes - Encircled man - The jokers - Modern architecture - Walls - Trusses and space frames - Rigid frames - Slabs - prestressing -- Shells - Cables - Membrane structures - Breaking out of the box - The counter culture - The sense of structure - Process-systems - Conclusion…”

An American Architecture : Frank Lloyd Wright / by Kaufmann, Edgar (ed.)

Table of Contents: “…-- 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.…”