[套書]GA TRAVELER 001~007 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

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GA TRAVELER 001: Frank Lloyd Wright – Taliesin West -9784871406116

Built as a wintertime activity base in the middle of Arizona desert,Taliesin West offers a complete different view from Taliesin amidst the vast natural setting in Wisconsin.

The two points and lines are evidences that Wright’s designs have sprouted from mother nature.

Its vigorous figure made of concrete and stone having edge over the desert conveys to this day the essence of Wright’s art, together with the cactus climbing up to the sky.

GA TRAVELER 002: Frank Lloyd Wright – Taliesin East -9784871406123

Pictures of Wright’s homebase pieced together to show his early experimental workshop.

Shown here are the architect’s residence where he has lived with his mother (including Wright’s own living room and bedroom), the Fellowship Complex (including the drafting room, library, theater, etc.) served as a place for summertime activities, apartment dwellings for his fellowship, and the grandeur of its natural surroundings, well-watered and full of green.

Experience a walk through Taliesin to get a glimpse of the source of Wright’s design imageries.

GA TRAVELER 003 Frank Lloyd Wright – Fallingwater -9784871406130

Edgar Kaufmann Residence – Fallingwater- was completed in 1939. Jutting over the rich flow of a mountain stream deep in the West Pennsylvanian forest, this house embodies the quintessence of Wright’s architectural concept. Familiar techniques since the times of ‘Prairie Houses’ such as harmony with nature, open plan emphasizing on horizontality, continuity between indoor and outdoor, or walls opened by means of windows, but also the idea behind the structure/construction method of supporting 1/3 of the building with cantilevers are akin to the modernity in ‘Usonian Houses’. Such maturity of quality makes this house a magnum opus among Wright’s works, one of the best in all modern architecture.

GA TRAVELER 004: Frank Lloyd Wright – Prairie Houses -9784871406147

Including 11 houses from earliest works. The Prairie Houses built during the period between the turn of century and 1910 mark Wright’s first step, ?The open-plan?emphasizing the spatial continuity/horizontality, or walls unfolding themselves through large windows are characteristics that have originated within the expanse of the great Prairie on the outskirts of Chicago root. He went on to design the stained glass, furniture and landscape as well. The sense of unity attributes to these houses a value of an art, beyond that of mere living spaces.

William H. Winslow House and Stables, 1893
Ward W. Willits House, 1902
Frank Thomas House, 1901
Susan Lawrence Dana House, 1902
Arthur Heurtley House, 1902
Darwin D. Martin House, 1903
Frederick C. Robie House, 1908
F. F. Tomek House, 1907
Avery Coonley House, 1907
E. E. Boynton House, 1907
Meyer May House, 1909

GA TRAVELER 005: Frank Lloyd Wright – Usonian Houses -9784871406154

Usonian houses have started around the 1940s.
The success of such dream-inspiring house plannings has expanded the range of Wright’s house design.

Featured here are epoch-making housing methods in which the linkage of his concept of a minimized house gives birth to a number of variations.

The 12 homes picked up here are all, whether small or commodious, still sufficiently livable today, and continue to contribute to the evolution of houses.

Herbert Jacobs House I
Paul R. and Jean Hanna House
Lloyd Lewis House
Stanley Rosenbaum House
Loren Pope House
Kathrine Winckler and Alma Goetsch House
Bernard Schwartz House
George Sturges House
John C. Pew House
Gregor Affleck House
Theodore Baird House
Melvyn Maxwell Smith House

GA TRAVELER 006: Frank Lloyd Wright – Elegant Houses -9784871406161

An ‘elegant house’ implies a graceful, balanced, mature piece of work which does not depend itself on the size nor the cost (the Fallingwater being a work depicting the very essence of it, is not included here as it would be featured independently). Of the 10 houses featured, their inner spaces that Wright has once referred to as ‘the reality of building’ are to be awarded an everlasting esteem for their furniture and fittings arranged with elaborate care to the finest detail, the continuity with the outdoor nature introduced by the decorative windows, and the effects of light from the wide openings and toplights.

“Wingspread”, Herbert F. Johnson House, 1937
Leigh Stevens House, “Auldbrass Plantation”, 1939
Lowell Walter House, “Cedar Rock”, 1945
Herman T. Mossberg House, 1946
Kenneth Laurent House, 1949
David Wright House, 1950
William Palmer House, 1950
Isadore J. Zimmerman House, 1950
Harold Price House, “Grandma House”, 1954
Gerald Tonkens House, 1955

GA TRAVELER 007: Frank Lloyd Wright – Architecture -9784871406178

Twelve of Wrightﾕs public/religeous architectures, from the early Unity Temple (1905) to his posthumous Marin County Government Center (1957). Although small in number, his works other than houses exhibit a profuse vocabulary of architecture. Each of them is a distinctive presentation of his idea of ﾔorganic architectureﾕ, in terms of interest in structure/construction method, sense of scale, pursuit of forms, religeous beliefs, and relation with nature. A volume summarizing Wrightﾕs thoughts on design.

Administration Building
for S. C. Johnson & Son Company
Racine, Wisconsin, 1936
Research Laboratory
for S. C. Johnson & Son Company
Racine, Wisconsin, 1944
Florida Southern College
Lakeland, Florida, 1938
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, New York, 1943-59
Tower for H. C. Price Company
Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 1952
Marin County Government Center
San Rafael, California, 1957
Unity Temple
Oak Park, Illinois, 1905
Anne Merner Pfeiffer Chapel,
Florida Southern College
Lakeland, Florida, 1938
William H. Danforth Chapel,
Florida Southern College
Lakeland, Florida, 1953
Unitarian Meeting House
Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin, 1947
Beth Sholom Synagogue
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1954
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 1956