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The Epic of American Architecture

Name: The Epic of American Architecture
Author: Imad Darouich

ملحمة المدارس الأميركية

American architecture searching for its own voice: the Chicago School, the Home Insurance Building, the elevator and Louis Sullivan, then Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School, the Robie House, organic architecture, Fallingwater and the Guggenheim.

Format: PDF ebook
Languages: Arabic and English
Collection: Ideas & Philosophy

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About This Book

American architecture searches for its own voice here, beginning in Chicago after fire destroyed much of the city and its ashes became a laboratory. The metal frame frees the wall in William Le Baron Jenney's Home Insurance Building, the elevator changes the value of height, the Chicago window announces a new age, and Louis Sullivan and the Rookery of Burnham and Root teach the tower its language. Frank Lloyd Wright then turns from the sky to the horizon with the Prairie School and the Robie House, before organic architecture, Fallingwater and the Guggenheim make the building an organism and the museum a path. The book closes on the directions these schools gave the world: height, horizon and growth.

But the ashes became a laboratory.

The horizontal line became the protagonist.

The Prairie School made it embrace the horizon.

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