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"In both early and late life," write Grant Hildebrand, 'Wright had an enormous number of domestic clients. ... They came to his drawing board in droves, and, having seen through to completion their adventure with him, they were, by and large, ecstatic about what they got. ...Many of these clients subsequently returned to Write for another house, and sometimes more than one.... "Yet few houses of equal fame have embodied more conspicuous faults. Many of Wright's plans defy reasonable furniture arrangements, many frustrate even the storage of reasonable and treasured possessions. In many cases sever problems afflict the architectural fabric: leaking roofs, unserviceable detailing, even structural inadequacies. ...There were problems of personality as well. ...Many of Wright's clients found him arrogant, careless, slow, and misleading, and were not by any means always amused by his temperament. And there are more vague and subjective difficulties, for the sheer power of these house as dramatic exercises in space and form can intimidate the...acts of ordinary daily life: how does on have a casual conversation in the Robie house dining room, or hang a cherished delicate picture in a Usonian?" If, then, these houses lacked so many of the usual aspects of satisfaction, why were they built with such profusion, and valued so highly? In this book thirty-three of Wright's domestic buildings, including all of the major houses on which his significance depends, are analyzed in detail in terms of their spatial characteristics. Fireplaces, seating, ceiling form, glazing, terraces, and roof overhangs are seen to follow a repetitive organization or pattern characterized by complementary juxtapositions of what the English geographer Jay Appleton calls "prospect" (a condition in which one can see over a considerable distance) and "refuge" (a place where one can hide). According to Appleton's theory of landscape aesthetics, this juxtaposition offers the ability to see without being seen (or to hunt successfully without being, in turn, successfully hunted) and thus, eons ago, had survival value. But such a condition must have been sought, originally, because it was intrinsically pleasurable to our species. Hildebrand finds a striking correlation in Wright's houses. Wright's pattern of prospect and refuge, to which are added similarly derived qualities of complexity and order, is show to be unique in domestic architecture to the degree to which it provides these preferred characteristics, suggesting why -- in spite of serious drawbacks -- his house were built and valued by so many clients. The text of the book is enhanced by photographs, plans, and by nine exquisitely drawn diagrams of key dwellings specially prepared by William Hook. Addressed to architects, landscape architects, architectural historians, environmental psychologist, anthropologists, philosophers of aesthetics, and the lay public with an interest in these subjects, The Wright Space, is essential reading for anyone who has ever lived in, looked at, or studied Frank Lloyd Wright's remarkable houses.

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295971088
ISBN-13
9780295971087
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Wright Space : Pattern and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses
Author
Grant Hildebrand
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Buildings / Residential, General, Individual Architects & Firms / General
Publication Year
1991
Genre
Architecture
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
37.4 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Na737.W7h48 1991
Table of Content
PrefaceIntroduction1. The Pattern2. Complexity and Order, Prospect and Refuge3. The Prairie Houses4. Taliesin5. The California Houses6. Fallingwater7. Taliesin West8. The Usonians9. Some ConclusionsNotesPhoto CreditsBibliographyIndex
Lccn
90-012154
Dewey Decimal
728/.37/092
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes

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