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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Taliesin"”.
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Compatibility and durability of concrete-stone system: The desert masonry at Taliesin West
… 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 direct contact and …
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From the Cheney House to Taliesin : Frank Lloyd Wright and Feminist Mamah Borthwick
… to the birth of Wright's first "natural house," Taliesin, which was built for Wright and Borthwick's life together. Ellen Key believed that the values which she associated with women's childrearing responsibilities -- those of love and empathy -- should be honored above all other societal values. …
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A Misfit Mythology: Hanes Taliesin in English Literature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
… of the nineteenth century frequently cited Taliesin as the preeminent bard of Wales, Hanes Taliesin (HT)—particularly the Elphin section—was overshadowed by popular and academic engagement with other traditional tales. Irish and Welsh legends sparked plays, novels, and poetry, but HT had (in …
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Chinese Voyages: Travels, Studies, Collections in the Pursuit of Organic Architecture
… we will examine three iconic examples from both Taliesin Wisconsin and Taliesin West, where the majority of Wright's Chinese artworks were stored and displayed. These examples include the Bodhisattva statues, glazed tiles, and 'Foo Dogs' sculptures at Taliesin Wisconsin, as well as the "Studio …
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'Cad Goddeu', 'the Battle of the Trees': texts and interpretations
… a poem attributed to the legendary Welsh bard Taliesin, is found in its earliest extant form in the fourteenth-century Welsh manuscript known as Llyfr Taliesin, (The Book of Taliesin). This dissertation asks how the poem has been recreated over time through a network of texts linked to the …
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Refiguring the sketch : the Nari Gandhi cartographic
… the earLiest proponents of organic architecture Taliesin and heaviLy influenced by Frank LLoyd Wright's teachings on the same subj personal understanding of the term: organic, extending it beyond his mentor's architectural rendition. Nari Gandhi defied the Legal and social norms that govern most …
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Interpreting Midway Barn: Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's Agrarian Vision
… lessons learned in his youth through the Taliesin Fellowship. Viewed in this way, Midway Barn offers insight not only into the architect’s biography but also into his complicated and sometimes contradictory relationship to “rural” values, materials, and ways of life. It also allows us to …
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Sacred sounds and natural grounds: designing acoustic communities within Prairie Style and Organic architectural spaces
… at Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and studio, Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin (1925-1985); an avant-garde chamber music series at Bruce Goff’s John Garvey House in Urbana, Illinois (1963- 1966); architectural preservation and changing musical tastes at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, …
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Theory and practice in architecture : a study of Frank Lloyd Wright
… later in his career with the creation of the Taliesin Fellowship and the Usonian houses.
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The phenomenology of a modern architect and his sense of place: Henry Klumb's residential architecture in Puerto Rico, 1944-1975
… places and peoples included Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, the American desert Southwest and its Native American populations, Puerto Rico's mountainous countryside and its rural working poor populations, and parts of the San Juan metropolitan area. This sense of place was evident in Klumb's …