Frank Furness : : Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines / / George E. Thomas.
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 toget...
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Thomas, George E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Frank Furness : Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines / George E. Thomas. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (312 p.) : 34 color, 84 b/w illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Haney Foundation Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword The American Creativity of Frank Furness -- 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Architecture Pennsylvania Philadelphia. Architecture United States History 19th century. Architecture United States History 20th century. ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs. bisacsh Architecture. Books of Regional Interest. Fine Art. Garden History. Technology and Engineering. Urban Studies. Hess, Alan, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606638 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294835 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812294835 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812294835/original |
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