Shadow patterns : reflections on Fay Jones and his architecture / Jeff Shannon, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shannon, Jeff, editor.

Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.

University of Arkansas Press.

Series:

Fay Jones Collaborative Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, Euine Fay, 1921-2004--Criticism and interpretation.

Jones, Euine Fay.

Architects--United States--Biography.

Architects.

Architects--Arkansas--Biography.

Arkansas.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages).

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, Arkansas : University of Arkansas Press, 2017.

Summary:

Winner, 2017 Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation Publication from Preserve Arkansas Shadow Patterns: Reflections on Fay Jones and His Architecture is a collection of critical essays and personal accounts of the man the American Institute of Architects honored with its highest award, the Gold Medal, in 1990. The essays range from the academic, with appreciations and observations by Juhanni Palaasma and Robert McCarter and Ethel Goodstein-Murphree, to personal reflections by clients and friends. Two of Arkansas's most accomplished writers, Roy Reed and Ellen Gilchrist, who each live in Fay Jones houses, have provided intimate portrayals of what it's like to live in, and manage the quirks of, a "house built by a genius, " where "light is everywhere.... Everything is quiet, and everything is a surprise, " as Gilchrist says. Through this compendium of perspectives, readers will learn about Jones's personal qualities, including his strong will, his ability to convince other people of the rightness of his ideas, and yet his willingness, at times, to change his mind. We also enter into the work: powerful architecture like Stoneflower and Thorncrown Chapel and Pinecote Pavilion, along with private residences ranging from the modest to the monumental. And we learn about his relationship with his mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright. Shadow Patterns broadens and enriches our understanding of this major figure in American architecture of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Fayetteville / David Buege and Jeff Shannon

Shining in the shadow : the architecture of Fay Jones and Frank Lloyd Wright / Robert McCarter

The paradigm shift / Greg Herman

Fay Jones's Crosby structures in Mississippi : personal views / Steve Sheppard

Nature and humanity in a simple shed : Fay Jones's Pinecote Pavilion / Ethel Goodstein-Murphree

Fay Jones's Stoneflower, Eden Isle, Arkansas / Richard Longstreth

Reflections on my friend, Fay Jones / Dale Mulfinger

Elemental and singular : the poetic magic of Fay Jones / Juhani Pallasmaa

Presence and absence / Karen Cordes Spence

Fay Jones / Roy Reed

Living with light / Ellen Gilchirst

Working with Fay Jones / John Womack

A turtle on a fence post / James P. Cramer

Memories of Fay Jones / Tom Lutz

A coda : twenty photographs and four verbs / Timothy Hursley and Peter MacKeith.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 18, 2017).

ISBN:

9781610756044

1610756045

OCLC:

985364127