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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | NA737.G75 K78 2010 | Off-site |
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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.
- Subjects
- 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