Three American Architects Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865-1915

Name: Three American Architects Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865-1915
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ISBN: 9780226620718

ISBN-10: 0226620719

ISBN-13: 9780226620718

Edition: 1991

Authors: James F. O'Gorman

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O'Gorman discusses the individual and collective achievement of the recognized trinity of American architecture: Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86), Louis Sullivan (1856-1924), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). He traces the evolution of forms created during these architects' careers, emphasizing the interrelationships among them and focusing on the designs and executed buildings that demonstrate those interrelationships. O'Gorman also shows how each envisioned the building types demanded by the growth of nineteenth-century cities and suburbs--the downtown skyscraper and the single-family home. [A] brilliant analysis . . . a major contribution to our understanding of the beginnings of…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/9/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 190
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

RENEE TRIBERT is an independent historian and writer living in Simsbury, Connecticut. JAMES F. O'GORMAN is the McNeil Professor Emeritus at Wellesley College. He is author of Henry Austin: In Every Variety of Architectural Style, winner of Historic New England's 2009 Book Prize and the 2010 Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award from the Victorian Society of America.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction: Muse, Master, and Man



Disciplining the Picturesque



Buildings for City and Suburb



Form Follows Precedent



The Tall Office Building Inconsistently Considered



A Long Foreground



The Prarie House


Glossary


Selected Reading


Index