LEADER 03378oam 2200565I 450 001 9910154999003321 005 20240505161722.0 010 $a1-351-91387-5 010 $a1-138-24584-4 010 $a1-315-24771-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315247717 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965318 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758320 035 $a(OCoLC)965444208 035 $a(BIP)63373038 035 $a(BIP)32716966 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965318 100 $a20180706e20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aOn Frank Lloyd Wright's concrete adobe $eIrving Gill, Rudolph Schindler and the American Southwest /$fDonald Leslie Johnson 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (259 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 225 1 $aStudies in Architecture 300 $a"First published 2016 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. 311 08$a1-4094-2817-6 311 08$a1-351-91388-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Questions, events. and precast concrete -- 2. The buildings -- 3. The Taylors and the Griffins -- 4. Tiles and blocks -- 5. Wright's fiction -- 6. Historian's fiction -- 7. Irving Gill, regionalism and concrete abode -- 8. Closure. Schindler and resurgence. 330 $aDuring the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as 'uniquely molded', 'woven like a textile fabric' and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together Wright's declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to determine their accuracy and correctness, or the possibility of feigned or fictional stories. It examines technical developments of concrete blocks by Wright and others before his experiences in Los Angeles began in 1919. It also studies the manner of Wright's design process by an examination of relevant pictorial and textual documents. A unique, in-depth and critical analysis of the houses is set within historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. Consequently, the book explains the impact upon Wright of California contemporaries, architects Irving Gill and Rudolph Schindler, and their instrumentally profound role upon the course of modernism 1907-1923. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of Wright's, Gill's and Schindler's buildings beyond their experiential qualities. 410 0$aStudies in architecture. 606 $aConcrete houses$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles Metropolitan Area 606 $aConcrete masonry 606 $aConcrete blocks 615 0$aConcrete houses 615 0$aConcrete masonry. 615 0$aConcrete blocks. 676 $a721/.04450922 700 $aJohnson$b Donald Leslie$00 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154999003321 996 $aOn Frank Lloyd Wright's concrete adobe$92295928 997 $aUNINA