Alden Dow was a midwesterner by birth, but he left a legacy national in stature.
Active from the early 1930s through the late 1970s, Dow designed some six hundred projects—often daringly modern houses and religious buildings, schools and colleges, business and civic structures, and even a new town in Texas. He changed the face of his hometown of Midland, Michigan, leaving it more than one hundred houses, offices and plants for The Dow Chemical Company, churches, banks, schools, and recreational structures. Nowhere is Dow's genius more evident than in his Home and Studio in Midland, a National Historic Landmark. Alden B. Dow: Midwestern Modern tells the story of both this exceptional residence and the architect who spent a half century developing his vision of a more humane way of building.
Beginning with the family—his father founded The Dow Chemical Company—and the town that encouraged him, the book traces the life and work of Alden Dow as well as the intensely personal philosophy that governed everything he did. The architect rejected the traditional concept of style and instead urged that buildings reflect their function, inspire their users, and encompass the qualities of honesty, humility, and enthusiasm. "There is never a fine thing unless it is original," he suggested, emphasizing the need for creativity and quality. Dow's influences were numerous: nature, the organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (with whom he studied briefly as part of the Taliesin Fellowship), reason and practicality, the arts of Japan, the color wheel, and, always, an unfailing sense of fun and joy. 185 color, 220 black-and-white illustrations

Alden B. Dow: Midwestern Modern

Arts & Photography

Maddex, Diane

Architecture

Archetype Press

Drawings by Roxie Munro Architects make zigzags--and they also design brackets, columns, dormers, eaves, facades, gables, houses, ironwork, and all the other architectural delights to be found inside this book. Artist Roxie Munro has created a wonderful, whimsical tour through the architectural alphabet. Her drawings show 26 of the most common features of buildings and neighborhoods and give a tantalizing glimpse into 300 years of American architecture from coast to coast. Follow her eye up to locate unusual curlicues on a seaside balcony and gaze down to see the intricate plantings that welcomed George Washington to Mount Vernon. This look at architecture from A to Z explains some everyday terms and introduces some less familiar words--do you know what jigsaw work, newel posts, and quoins are? Munro makes architecture fun for building lovers of all ages and provides a starting point for endless architectural explorations close to home. "Munro's line drawings . are full of detail without being cluttered; they capture the activity of these places, and yet they remain serene." --Washington Post "Munro clearly is [able] to breathe life into the inanimate." --New York Times "Munro deserves thanks for this treasure that her fans will hope is the first of many singular achievements." --Publishers Weekly

Architects Make Zigzags: Looking at Architecture from A to Z

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

wiley

Houses not skyscrapers, museums or schools remained Frank Lloyd Wrights favourite building type from the beginning to the end of his seventy-year career as an architect. When he started his practice near the close of the 19th century, he saw a house as the embodiment of democracy and individual freedom. 'Your home had more capacity to spread well-being', he said, 'than any cathedral or palace'. To him it was the centre of all family life. As "50 Favourite Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright" shows, his ideal home took on an amazing variety of forms. From Wrights 300 house designs that were eventually built, this book visits fifty that have become world-wide favourites. Here, from the young architects first period, is his own home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois, an architectural laboratory for him over two decades.Wright next ushered in the 20th century with his Prairie House, whose sheltering roofs and horizontal lines linked them to the earth; classics such as the Willits, Dana Thomas and Robie Houses. In the 1920s came revolutionary design in California built of textured concrete, followed in the 1930s by the internationally renowned Fallingwater and Taliesin West. Each of the examples featured grew from Wrights never-changing principles that a house should be built with nature, use materials and colours, be designed from within, have the consistency of a finely woven fabric, achieve harmony through unity, and be a work of art not just a house.

Frank Lloyd Wright 50 Favourite Houses /anglais

Thames&Hudson

Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub the Date: October 1998 in Publisher: Thames & Hudson Click on the Google the Preview image The above to the read some pages of the this book! Showcasing Frank Lloyd Wright's best work in interior design. the this volume exemplifies the architect's principles of to unity. simplicity and respect for nature. The rooms featured also represent a chronological picture of his stylistic development.

50 Favourite Rooms By Frank Lloyd Wright /anglais

Photography & Video

Presents descriptions and photographs of many of the living rooms, dining rooms, and public spaces designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

Fifty Favorite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright

Harry N. Abrams

Dozens of full-color photographs capture the splendid furniture, art glass, and decorative metalwork created by America's leading architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, in an accessible volume that discusses Wright's signature designs in terms of his famous architectural interiors.

50 Favorite Furnishings by Frank Lloyd Wright

WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd

Smithmark Pub.

Of the 300 Frank Lloyd Wright houses that were built, award-winning author Diane Maddex has selected 50 that have become worldwide favorites. With insightful text and splendid photographs, Maddex shows how these houses—which include Wright's Oak Park home, the Coonley, Dana and Robie houses from the Prairie period, Fallingwater and Taliesin West—each grew from Wright's fundamental belief that a house should be built in harmony with nature, use natural materials and colors, be designed from within, have the consistency of a finely woven fabric, achieve harmony through unity and be not merely a domicile but a work of art. Hardcover, 128 pages, color photographs throughout.

50 Favorite Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright

More than three hundred full-color photographs showcase the charming appeal of the bungalow style of design, featuring a variety of stylistic treatments--from Colonial Revival to Craftsman to Tudor--that exemplify the best in decorating for bungalow bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms, and baths. 15,000 first printing.

Bungalow Nation

50 Favorite Rooms By Frank Lloyd Wright

This gorgeous volume celebrates the great houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the world's noted and America's most popular architect. An illustrated introduction provides an overview of design principles and Wright's ideas behind the modern home and is followed by sections on Early Houses, Prairie Houses, 1920's and 1930's Houses, and Usonian Houses. Elegant full-color photographs and an authoritative yet accessible text profile fifty of the best-loved signature homes that the architect created. Written by award-winning author, Diane Maddex, this lush companion to its hugely successful predecessors, Fifty Favorite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright and Fifty Favorite Furnishings by Frank Lloyd Wright, offers an approachable look at the architect's definitive decorative style.

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Alden B. Dow: Midwestern Modern

Architects Make Zigzags: Looking at Architecture from A to Z

Frank Lloyd Wright 50 Favourite Houses /anglais

50 Favourite Rooms By Frank Lloyd Wright /anglais

Fifty Favorite Rooms by Frank Lloyd Wright

50 Favorite Furnishings by Frank Lloyd Wright

50 Favorite Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright

Bungalow Nation

50 Favorite Rooms By Frank Lloyd Wright

50 Favorite Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright