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Frank Furness: Architektur im Zeitalter der großen Maschinen von George E. Thomas
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Artikelmerkmale
- Artikelzustand
- ISBN-13
- 9780812224870
- Type
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780812224870
- Book Title
- Frank Furness : Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines
- Book Series
- Haney Foundation Ser.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Item Length
- 9.7 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Architecture
- Topic
- Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), General
- Item Weight
- 24.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812224876
ISBN-13
9780812224870
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18050089967
Product Key Features
Book Title
Frank Furness : Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture
Book Series
Haney Foundation Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
24.2 Oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
6.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"George Thomas' book is a useful corrective to [Furness'] popular image. His Furness is not a rogue architect, but a product of the distinctive culture of Philadelphia architecture . . . [An] original and imaginative study of architectural patronage, which significantly enhances our understanding of Furness, of Philadelphia, and of American architecture."-- Pennsylvania Heritage, "By returning Frank Furness to his central position at the birth of Modern architecture in America, George Thomas helps us understand the depth of the American roots of Modernism . . . [and] reminds us of how many significant turning points occurred when insights into contemporary life, culture, and technology became a spring board for creative design. His Modernism--and Frank Furness's--is not merely a theory but a mirror held up to society."--Alan Hess, from the Foreword, "Through his examination of Furness, Thomas provides an important reminder of the narrowness of the existing historiography of American architecture (as opposed to that of modern architecture more broadly), which continues to draw on a limited cast of characters and locales . . . >Frank Furness should provide us with incentive to rediscover the architects and cities that together created a more complex and nuanced architectural and historical landscape."-- Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, "Frank Furness's architecture brought together two seemingly opposed realms: one derived from the newly developing industrial machine, the other from nature. There is a fantastical juxtaposition of ferocious hissing, steam-driven piston power coupled with lyrically delicate ornament derived from leaves and stems of plant life (and, almost paradoxically, implanted in stone by the then newly invented steam-powered chisel). George Thomas's book places Furness's architecture in the apocalyptic climax of this moment when nature and industry could be thought of as one organic, dynamic whole."--Turner Brooks, Yale School of Architecture, [A] brilliant study by the architectural and cultural historian George E. Thomas, who contends that the unprecedented mechanization of the Victorian Era was central to the advance of architecture . . . Thomas further secures his reputation as our leading authority on the architect, and places his subject squarely in a social setting too often missing when researchers obsess over stylistic and formal matters . . . [H]alf a century after the rediscovery of the fiery Furness, the impassioned advocacy of George Thomas continues to reveal the genius of this magnificent misfit."-- The New York Review of Books
Dewey Decimal
720.973/09034
Table Of Content
Foreword. The American Creativity of Frank Furness --Alan Hess Prologue. A Revolutionary Generation Chapter 1. "Buildings Out of His Head" Chapter 2. The Philadelphia Client: Industry and the Future Chapter 3. Two Competitions: Boston's Trinity Church and Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Chapter 4. Buildings as Machines: The Mature Architect Epilogue. Sullivan, Price, and Howe Notes Selected Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Frank Furness (1839-1912) has remained a curiosity to architectural historians and critics, somewhere between an icon and an enigma, whose importance and impact have yet to be properly evaluated or appreciated. To some, his work pushed pattern and proportion to extremes, undermining or forcing together the historic styles he referenced in such eclectic buildings as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania Library. To others, he was merely a regional mannerist creating an eccentric personal style that had little resonance and modest influence on the future of architecture. By placing Furness in the industrial culture that supported his work, George Thomas finds a cutting-edge revolutionary who launched the beginnings of modern design, played a key part in its evolution, and whose strategies continue to affect the built world. In his sweeping reassessment of Furness as an architect of the machine age, Thomas grounds him in Philadelphia, a city led by engineers, industrialists, and businessmen who commissioned the buildings that extended modern design to Chicago, Glasgow, and Berlin. Thomas examines the multiple facets of Victorian Philadelphia's modernity, looking to its eager embrace of innovations in engineering, transportation, technology, and building, and argues that Furness, working for a particular cohort of clients, played a central role in shaping this context. His analyses of the innovative planning, formal, and structural qualities of Furness's major buildings identifies their designs as initiators of a narrative that leads to such more obviously modern figures as Louis Sullivan, William Price, Frank Lloyd Wright and eventually, the architects of the Bauhaus. Misunderstood and reviled in the traditional architectural centers of New York and Boston, Furness's projects, commissioned by the progressive industrialists of the new machine age, intentionally broke with the historical styles of the past to work in a modern way--from utilizing principles based on logistical planning to incorporating the new materials of the industrial age. Lavishly illustrated, the book includes more than eighty black-and-white and thirty color photographs that highlight the richness of his work and the originality of his design spanning more than forty years., A sweeping assessment of the entire career of Frank Furness that features more than one hundred illustrations, George E. Thomas's book argues that modern American architecture, in design and genealogy, is rooted in the industrial culture of Philadelphia and the office of Frank Furness.
LC Classification Number
NA737.F84T49 2021
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