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Walter Burley Griffin and the Stinson Memorial Library : modernism comes to Main Street

Title

Walter Burley Griffin and the Stinson Memorial Library : modernism comes to Main Street / by Paul Kruty ; with a contribution by Paul E. Sprague.

Author

Kruty, Paul

Publication

St. Louis, Mo. : Walter Burley Griffin Society of America, 2010.
©2010

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Description

ix, 58 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 22 x 27 cm

Summary

"[T]he book is the first monograph on Griffin's major public building in the United States. Historian of the Prairie School H. Allen Brooks called the Stinson Library "a brilliant design and a fitting climax to Griffin's American career," while Sullivan/Wright scholar Paul Sprague pronounced it "one of America's greatest architectural treasures." Yet there has never been a detailed examination of this extraordinary monument. Drawing on the priceless collection of letters and documents surviving at the library, Prof. Kruty recounts the story of the commission, design, construction and reception of the building. He then sets it in the contexts of Griffin's career, the public library in America, and the architect's intention to create a Modern representational public architecture. Along the way, Kruty provides new details about Griffin's office staff in 1912-14, the contributions of Marion Mahony Griffin to the design, and the role of the general contractor, Paul F. P. Mueller--the person responsible for the actual construction of more of the great buildings produced by Sullivan and the Prairie School than any other individual, including, in addition to the Stinson Memorial Library, Adler & Sullivan's Schiller Building and such works by Frank Lloyd Wright as the Larkin Building, Unity Temple, and Midway Gardens."--Publisher description.

Subject

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings
Books.

Note

Published by the Walter Burley Griffin Society of America in conjunction with its annual meeting held in Anna, Illinois on 22 May 2010.--T.p verso.
ISBN on back cover, 0-9793588-0-9 is incorrect; correct ISBN is on t.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 57).

Contents

Building a library for Anna. A word about Anna, Illinois ; The donor ; Anna connections ; The architects ; Griffin's office in 1912 ; Design chronology ; Exhibition and publication ; Building's chronology I ; Paul F. Mueller ;Building's chronology II ; Chicago, Urbana, Australia, Building's chronology III ; Griffin's return -- Portfolio of historic photographs -- Creating a public architecture. The Stinson Memorial Library ; Griffin's design method and vocabulary ; Griffin's public buildings ; The American library ; Synthesizing influences ; Griffin's Landscape design for Anna / Paul E. Sprague ; Griffin as a landscape architect ; The landscape plan for the Stinson Memorial Library.

ISBN

0979358817
9780979358814
0979358809 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

ocn636067750
636067750
SCSB-1589437

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library