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Wright in Racine : the architect's vision for one American city / written and photographed by Mark Hertzberg.
Fine Arts Library NA737.W7 H465 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hertzberg, Mark, 1950-
- Series:
- Pomegranate catalog ; no. A754.
- Catalog ; no. A754
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
- Wright, Frank Lloyd.
- Architecture--Wisconsin--Racine--20th century.
- Architecture.
- Buildings--Wisconsin--Racine.
- Buildings.
- Wisconsin--Racine.
- Physical Description:
- 95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Petaluma, CA : Pomegranate, [2004]
- Summary:
- Mark Hertzberg has written-and photographed-the first book to tie together all the Racine works of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), whose revolutionary designs galvanized American architecture. The greatest American architect of all time left an incomparable legacy of private homes and public buildings. In Racine-known as "invention city"-home to the Waring blender, Golden Books, and other innovations, almost all the significant stages of Wright's career after 1900 are represented. Hertzberg punctuates his lively, personalized account with anecdotes from people who worked or lived in Wright's creations and with inviting color photographs. An introduction by Edgar Tafel, one of Wright's first apprentices, leads off Wright in Racine, which includes the first book discussion of the newly documented Miles house remodeling project and the architect's smallest (and unrealized) commission, the airport lounge/cafe. In-depth discussions of Wingspread, the SC Johnson Administration Building, the subsequent Research Tower, the Hardy and the Keland houses, and other projects round out Hertzberg's insightful study.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Private Homes 13
- Cecil Corwin and Frank Lloyd Wright-The Miles House (1901) 13
- The Hardy House (1905) 16
- Wingspread (1937) 25
- The Roy Petersen House (1941) 40
- The Keland House (1954) 41
- Chapter 2 Public Buildings 51
- SC Johnson Administration Building (1936) 51
- Airport Lounge/Cafe Project (1941) 65
- SC Johnson Research Tower (1944) 67
- YWCA (1949, 1950) 75
- Chapter 3 Affordable Housing 79
- The Monolith Homes (1919) 79
- The Johnson Homes (1948) 81
- A Tower Letter from Wright to H. F. Johnson Jr. 82
- B Wright in Racine Project List 83
- C Racine Work of Former Apprentices and Associates 84.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-95).
- ISBN:
- 0764928902
- OCLC:
- 54803676
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