1st Edition

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities

By Donald Johnson Copyright 2017
332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the theory was a belief that reform of nineteenth-century gluttony should include a contemporary interpretation of its material presence, its bulk and... Read more
Part 1: Conditions  1. Reformation and Progressivism  Part 2: The Aesthetics of Progress  2. Education  3. Tutelage  4. Design Generators  5. Architectural Synthesis  6. The Wright School  Part 3: The City Scientific  7. Rousseau to Professionalism  8. Wright’s Community Planning  9. Contraction  Appendices  A. Visual Examination of Geometries  B. Wright’s Yesler Avenue Hotel  C. Further Quadruplets  References  Index

Biography

Donald Leslie Johnson taught at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, from 1972 until retirement in 1988. He has been an adjunct professor of architectural history at the University of South Australia for twenty years. Previously, he practiced architecture in Seattle, Philadelphia, and Tucson and taught theory and design at Arizona, Washington State, and Adelaide universities. He has written extensively about the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Burley Griffin and Canberra, Australian architectural history, and American and Australian city planning history. He was in Lois I. Kahn's masters class of 1960–61 at the University of Pennsylvania. Johnson was a member of the American Institute of Architects and is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects.