2010, ISBN: 0764956094

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780764956096], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Pomegranate, San Francisco], FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, RACINE, TAPROOT DESIGN, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, LABORATORY, CANTILEVER, WEIGHT… More...

[EAN: 9780764956096], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Pomegranate, San Francisco], FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, RACINE, TAPROOT DESIGN, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, LABORATORY, CANTILEVER, WEIGHT-BEARING CENTRAL CORE, MEZZANINES, URBAN-INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE, INNOVATIVE ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING, Jacket, The format is approximately 7.25 inches by 7.25 inches. 79, [1] pages. Decorative endpaper. Illustrations (many in color) Foreword by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer. Notes. Bibliography. Contents include Acknowledgments, Foreword, Introduction, The People, Designing the Tower, Building the Tower, The Tower Rises: An Essay in Pictures; Layout of the Tower; Aesthetic Triump or Practical Success? Addition to the Tower Complex, and The Tower Closes. A corporate commitment to innovation combined with Wright's penchant for visionary design, yielded a pioneering yet challenged structure. An expansion of the company headquarters adjacent to the Wright-designed Administration Building from a decade earlier, the tower design expanded on the architect's visions for modern workspace and biomimetic structural systems. Floor slabs cantilever from a reinforced concrete "taproot" core, and bands of brick and crystalline glass tubes enclose laboratory spaces. Reverently maintained yet mostly unused by the SC Johnson company today, the tower can be considered either form pursued at the expense of function or a daring architectural accomplishment. The author is a freelance photojournalist, contract photographer for ZUMA Press Wire; Racine Journal Times 1978-2012 (Director of Photography); Author and photographer of four books about Frank Lloyd Wright's work in SE Wisconsin (all written on contract, not self-published). Lecturer about Wright's work in SE Wisconsin, including designated Expert Lecturer for Road Scholar Wright tours in Wisconsin. Frank Lloyd Wright's SC Johnson Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin, is one of modern architecture's most significant landmarks. Completed in 1950, the fifteen-story skyscraper is the only existing example of Wright's ambitious taproot design. Like limbs from a tree trunk, alternating square floors and round mezzanines branch out from the weight-bearing central core, a truly revolutionary idea at the time and an engineering marvel today. In 1943 H. F. Johnson Jr., president of the SC Johnson & Son Company, commissioned Wright (1867-1959) to create a new laboratory space that would be as innovative as the research and development team working inside it. The architect eagerly accepted the challenge, envisioning a vertical complement to the firm's streamlined Administration Building, designed by Wright seven years prior. The result was a new kind of skyscraper, one with double-height spaces, windows made of Pyrex glass tubing, and stripes of Wright's signature Cherokee red brick, all balanced on a small pedestal base--the Tower's sinewy core. Although the Tower opened to great acclaim in 1950, it closed just thirty-one years later. Despite its ingenious structure, the building ultimately proved to be an impractical model of urban-industrial architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright's SC Johnson Research Tower investigates the rise and fall of this remarkable building. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, provides an insightful Foreword, while Mark Hertzberg's text explores the design, the construction, and--through interviews with Johnson employees--the experience of working within Wright's iconic Tower. Hertzberg's artful photographs document the Tower--inside and out--as it appears today., Books<

2012, ISBN: 9780764956096

San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Mark Hertzberg. The format is approximately 7.25 inches by 7.25 inches. 79, [1] pages. Decorat… More...

San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Mark Hertzberg. The format is approximately 7.25 inches by 7.25 inches. 79, [1] pages. Decorative endpaper. Illustrations (many in color) Foreword by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer. Notes. Bibliography. Contents include Acknowledgments, Foreword, Introduction, The People, Designing the Tower, Building the Tower, The Tower Rises: An Essay in Pictures; Layout of the Tower; Aesthetic Triump or Practical Success? Addition to the Tower Complex, and The Tower Closes. A corporate commitment to innovation combined with Wright's penchant for visionary design, yielded a pioneering yet challenged structure. An expansion of the company headquarters adjacent to the Wright-designed Administration Building from a decade earlier, the tower design expanded on the architect's visions for modern workspace and biomimetic structural systems. Floor slabs cantilever from a reinforced concrete "taproot" core, and bands of brick and crystalline glass tubes enclose laboratory spaces. Reverently maintained yet mostly unused by the SC Johnson company today, the tower can be considered either form pursued at the expense of function or a daring architectural accomplishment. The author is a freelance photojournalist, contract photographer for ZUMA Press Wire; Racine Journal Times 1978-2012 (Director of Photography); Author and photographer of four books about Frank Lloyd Wright's work in SE Wisconsin (all written on contract, not self-published). Lecturer about Wright's work in SE Wisconsin, including designated Expert Lecturer for Road Scholar Wright tours in Wisconsin. Frank Lloyd Wright's SC Johnson Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin, is one of modern architecture's most significant landmarks. Completed in 1950, the fifteen-story skyscraper is the only existing example of Wright's ambitious taproot design. Like limbs from a tree trunk, alternating square floors and round mezzanines branch out from the weight-bearing central core, a truly revolutionary idea at the time and an engineering marvel today. In 1943 H. F. Johnson Jr., president of the SC Johnson & Son Company, commissioned Wright (1867-1959) to create a new laboratory space that would be as innovative as the research and development team working inside it. The architect eagerly accepted the challenge, envisioning a vertical complement to the firm's streamlined Administration Building, designed by Wright seven years prior. The result was a new kind of skyscraper, one with double-height spaces, windows made of Pyrex glass tubing, and stripes of Wright's signature Cherokee red brick, all balanced on a small pedestal base--the Tower's sinewy core. Although the Tower opened to great acclaim in 1950, it closed just thirty-one years later. Despite its ingenious structure, the building ultimately proved to be an impractical model of urban-industrial architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright's SC Johnson Research Tower investigates the rise and fall of this remarkable building. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, provides an insightful Foreword, while Mark Hertzberg's text explores the design, the construction, and--through interviews with Johnson employees--the experience of working within Wright's iconic Tower. Hertzberg's artful photographs document the Tower--inside and out--as it appears today., Pomegranate, 2010, 3<

2010, ISBN: 9780764956096

Vorwort: Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Pomegranate, Gebundene Ausgabe, 79 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-09-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.43 kg, Verkaufsrang: 4804370, Einzelarchitekten & Büro… More...

Vorwort: Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Pomegranate, Gebundene Ausgabe, 79 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-09-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.43 kg, Verkaufsrang: 4804370, Einzelarchitekten & Büros, Architektur, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Kategorien, Bücher, Kritik, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, Pomegranate, 2010<

2010, ISBN: 9780764956096

Vorwort: Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Pomegranate, Gebundene Ausgabe, 79 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-09-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.95 kg, Verkaufsrang: 6239, Einzelarchitekten & Büros, … More...

Vorwort: Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Pomegranate, Gebundene Ausgabe, 79 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-09-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.95 kg, Verkaufsrang: 6239, Einzelarchitekten & Büros, Architektur, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Kategorien, Bücher, Kritik, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Englische Bücher, Pomegranate, 2010<