Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright; Architecture in Detail

MCCARTER, ROBERT.

ISBN 10: 071483629X / ISBN 13: 9780714836294

Verlag: Phaidon Press, 1997

Beschreibung

Phaidon, 1997. First published. 29,7 x 29,7 cm. Paperback / Softcover. Illustrated in color and b/w throughout. 60 pages. NEAR FINE COPY [Architecture / international [Algemene Architectuur] ].

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers #116309

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright; Architecture in Detail
• Verlag: Phaidon Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 071483629X
• ISBN-13: 9780714836294
• Einband: Softcover

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Unity Temple represents the high point of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Prairie" period, and the founding of a place of sanctuary for the Unitarian congregation - a branch of Protestantism founded by his own great-great grandfather in 1726. Located in Oak Park, Illinois, the temple is ordered on a rigorous system of proportion determined on both exterior and interior by the measurements of the central interior sanctuary space. This detailed account invites the viewer (as Wright's creation does itself) to see the act of building as sacred, and buildings as sacred places.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert McCarter is Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture, University of Florida.