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Frank Lloyd Wright, architecture and nature
- Title
- Frank Lloyd Wright, architecture and nature / by Donald Hoffmann.
- Author
- Hoffmann, Donald
- Publication
- New York : Dover Publications, ©1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | NA737.W9 H68 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vii, 87 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
- Summary
- In this profusely illustrated study, a noted Wright scholar and commentator offers a wealth of keen insights into the ways in which nature influenced Wright's complex personal approach to siting buildings in the landscape, use of organic materials in their natural forms and textures, and use of decorative motifs derived from nature in glass, brick, wood and other materials.
- Series Statement
- Dover books on architecture
- Uniform Title
- Dover books on architecture.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 85-86.
- Contents
- Nature, the noble environment -- Nature as ornament -- Natural cycles -- Nature's repose -- Lesser rhythms of nature -- Nature and the cantilever -- In axis to gravity -- Nature's materials -- Nature and glass -- Fields as ornament -- Like a living being -- The organic plan -- The natural poetry of structure -- Nature's hidden places -- Forest light -- Nature's textures and colors -- Small-scale symmetries -- Nature retrieved -- Friends of nature -- Nature and time -- In the heart of nature.
- ISBN
- 0486250989
- 9780486250984
- LCCN
- 85029264
- OCLC
- ocm12975567
- 12975567
- SCSB-647081
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library