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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Frank Lloyd Wright"”.
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Frank Lloyd Wright beyond America
… is a cultural study of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright’s (1867-1959) beyond his homeland of America. It explores Wright’s travels as a means of unravelling his global ambitions and legacy. Wright was born in the age of the horse and cart and died in the age of commercial jet travel; …
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Theory and practice in architecture : a study of Frank Lloyd Wright
… this difficult problem that architects face. Frank Lloyd Wright is the subject of this study and there are three main areas of his theory and practice that will be investigated. First, how did he describe his own theory and how did he translate that into his own work? Second, what were his …
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From the Cheney House to Taliesin : Frank Lloyd Wright and Feminist Mamah Borthwick
This thesis seeks to investigate the impact of Frank Lloyd Wright 's contact with feminist theory on his design and his thinking. For, in 1912, Wright and his companion Mamah Borthwick co-translated a book by Swedish feminist Ellen Key into English. I argue that Key's notion of an "organic" system …
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Film and architecture: Discovering the self-reflection of Frank Capra and Frank Lloyd Wright through contextual analysis
… and architecture, specific works of director Frank Capra and architect Frank Lloyd Wright were examined. The study utilizes both an historical, case study approach, combined with a contextual analysis of two selected works. Because Zettl's (1990) theory of applied media aesthetics emphasizes …
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The lawn and the forest : architecture and landscape in the work of Thomas Jefferson and Frank Lloyd Wright
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Henry James, Virginia Woolf, And Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiority, Consciousness, Time, And Space In The Modernist Novel And The Home
… the work of the writers with the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Using Joseph Frank's theory of spatial form, my work explores the similarities between Wright's designs of private residences with the design of space in the novel. All three artists, I argue, are working with spatial form, …
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Experimental theatre in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia
… aspiration would go there for inspiration..." - Frank Lloyd Wright- Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Gerald Nordland: Frank Lloyd Wright in the realm of ideas, Bynum, NC: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988, page 100
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On the prairie lines: the earth shelter
… to the third dimension i.e. trying to use Frank Lloyd Wright as a departure point for my personal design explorations. I consider this thesis project to be an important step in the ongoing process of my personal development as an architect looking for some new ideas in the realm of the …
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House as box
Early in this century Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe, among others, made conscious efforts to break the box. Since boxes contain, breaking the box liberates. In building a box parameters are set for enclosing. Can a house be closed in or can there be a simultaneous opening and closing …
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A Water Garden: Celebrating the Beauty of Nature
… consideration of the Organic Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, has constantly been favored as a path for a pure soul to communicate with the spiritual. Inspired by Wright's Organic Architecture and Traditional Chinese Garden, this thesis celebrates the beauty of Nature in Pandapas Pond, …
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Harmony and Counterpoint: An Adaptive Reuse of Frank Lloyd Wright's A.D. German Warehouse
… hometown of Richland Center, Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright was to work on the A.D. German Warehouse twice during his lifetime. Initially constructed between 1917 and 1921, financial woes on the part of the owner led to a shuttered building. In 1934 Wright worked on an adaptive reuse, but …
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Compatibility and durability of concrete-stone system: The desert masonry at Taliesin West
… masonry is a construction method developed by Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West, presenting a distinctive approach in which stones are embedded directly into concrete without intermediary bonding agents. This study focuses on two primary components of the system—face stone and concrete—whose …
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"Cellules": Social Structuring at Casa Maderni
… reaction. The architecture of Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Carlos Scarpa assisted greatly through precedence in my architectural descisions.
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Urban in the sky: a vertical transition
… building in this sense a sure foil for life." Frank Lloyd Wright
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Rudolph M. Schindler : theory and design
… three architects Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and Frank Lloyd Wright is of key interest in understanding the work of Schindler. The theoretical investigation is based on the published and unpublished articles written in the years 1912 to 1950. By virtue of Schindler's theoretical concepts his …
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Sacred sounds and natural grounds: designing acoustic communities within Prairie Style and Organic architectural spaces
… and Midwestern architectural spaces designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his Prairie Style and Organic Architectural contemporaries. It examines a period of nearly 100-years, from the late 1890s to the mid-1980s, and considers the way music performance has been used to sacralize and elevate the …
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Extensions of systems : methods for structure and form in Silverton, Colorado
… of a repetitive dimensioning system used by Frank Lloyd Wright in his domestic designs.
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Experimental logistics : extra-architectural projects at SOM, 1933-1986
… investigates the work of SOM, characterized by Frank Lloyd Wright with perhaps unbeknownst precision as a 'plan factory.' It does so by introducing the idea of the 'extra-architectural' artifact: the residual traces of the procedures and protocols undergirding the office's built projects, as of …
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The Skyscraper And The Suburb: Architecture, Capitalism, And The American Metropolitan Landscape, 1929–1940
… of urban densification. In the spring of 1930, Frank Lloyd Wright began promoting Broadacre City as a framework for managing automobile-induced dispersion. By 1940, he had written several books, given dozens of lectures, and mounted exhibitions (including at Rockefeller Center) that expanded his …
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Instructional Modules Demonstrating Building Energy Analysis Using a Building Information Model
… based on a residential dwelling designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Relevant data from the building information model is exported to two separate analysis tools - Autodesk Ecotect and DesignBuilder. Ecotect is used to provide early feedback on weather, heating and cooling loads, and heat loss …
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