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Wright Space The: Pattern and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses
1991rif. 160509University of Washgton Press 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Book is in excellent condition in black cloth HB covers silver art on cover with embossed silver print at spine. As new. Binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners exterior shows no blemishes text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows some shelf wear at edges 1/4"" tear top spine. 192 pages illustrated throughout with floorplans elevations interiors exteriors b&w photos architectural drawings architectural details etc. Inscribed on front end paper with a lovely message by author to Henry Matthews notable Seattle architectural historian. The book offers a spatial analysis of 33 domestic buildings applying geographer Jay Appleton's ""prospect and refuge"" theory and concepts of order and complexity to explain recurring patterns in fireplaces seating ceiling forms glazing terraces and roof overhangs examining how juxtapositions of visibility prospect and concealment refuge created intrinsically pleasurable spaces with evolutionary survival value across major works including Robie House Fallingwater and Usonian houses. In this book thirty-three of Wright's domestic buildings including all of the major houses on which his significance depends are analyzed in detail in terms of their spatial characteristics. Fireplaces seating ceiling form glazing terraces and roof overhangs are seen to follow a repetitive organization or pattern characterized by complementary juxtapositions of what the English geographer Jay Appleton calls ""prospect"" a condition in which one can see over a considerable distance and ""refuge"" a place where one can hide. According to Appleton's theory of landscape aesthetics this juxtaposition offers the ability to see without being seen or to hunt successfully without being in turn successfully hunted and thus eons ago had survival value. But such a condition must have been sought originally because it was intrinsically pleasurable to our species. Hildebrand finds a striking correlation in Wright's houses. Wright's pattern of prospect and refuge to which are added similarly derived qualities of complexity and order is show to be unique in domestic architecture to the degree to which it provides these preferred characteristics suggesting why -- in spite of serious drawbacks -- his house were built and valued by so many clients.The text of the book is enhanced by photographs plans and by nine exquisitely drawn diagrams of key dwellings specially prepared by William Hook. Addressed to architects landscape architects architectural historians environmental psychologist anthropologists philosophers of aesthetics and the lay public with an interest in these subjects The Wright Space is essential reading for anyone who has ever lived in looked at or studied Frank Lloyd Wright's remarkable houses. Keywords: Prospect Refuge Appleton Theory Spatial Analysis Robie House Fallingwater Usonian Homes Presentation copy Ceiling Form Fireplaces Terraces Organic Architecture Signed and Inscribed University of Washgton Press hardcover
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