On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe: Irving Gill, Rudolph Schindler and the American SouthwestThe book provides a unique, in-depth and critical analysis of Wright's concrete block houses, set within their historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. In particular, it shows the full impact upon Wright of his contemporaries, architects Irving Gill and Rudolph Schindler. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of Wright's, Gill's and Schindler's buildings beyond their architectonic and experiential qualities. |
Contents
The Buildings | 31 |
The Taylors and the Griffins | 53 |
Tiles and Blocks | 73 |
Wrights Fiction | 99 |
Historians Fiction | 119 |
Irving Gill Regionalism and Concrete Adobe | 143 |
Closure Schindler and Resurgence | 175 |
Appendix One | 199 |
About the Author | 217 |
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