Frank Furness : architecture and the violent mind / Michael J. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Michael J.

Contributor:

Rare Books Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Furness, Frank, 1839-1912.

Furness, Frank.

Architecture--United States--History--19th century.

Architecture.

Architecture--United States--History--20th century.

Architects--United States--Biography.

Architects.

Genre:

Authors' autographs.

Physical Description:

x, 273 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Norton, c2001.

Summary:

"This first biography of the flamboyant personality whom Louis Sullivan dubbed "the dog man" shows Furness a man of his age, immersed in its most powerful currents and forces. It details his abolitionist upbringing in staid Philadelphia, the transformative experience of the Civil War (in which he served as a cavalry officer and earned a Congressional Medal of Honor), and its translation into swaggering architecture that met the needs for vivid commercial imagery in the Gilded Age. It recounts how Furness's rip-roaring professional style brought him success when he served a generation of veterans but helped make him a pariah in the transformed culture of America at the turn of the twentieth century."

Contents:

Introduction

Abolition & architecture

Frank Furness's war

Late to the feast

Fortune favors the bold

The dog man

Brave dreams

Talkers are no great doers

The white city & the red station

To purchase oblivion

The bravest of the brave.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-266) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: RBC copy: gift of the author, signed by the author.

ISBN:

0393730638

OCLC:

45284686