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Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2013. First Edition . Photographic Boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. A crisp, clean Very Good copy in lightly rubbed boards with a tiny bump to the upper rear forecorner. 230 pp., appendices, endnotes and index, brief author bio. During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as uniquely molded, woven like a textile fabric, and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together Wright's declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to determine their accuracy and correctness, or the possibility of feigned or fictional stories. It examines technical developments of concrete blocks by…
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On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe: Irving Gill, Rudolph Schindler and the American Southwest Hardcover - 2013
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- Title On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe: Irving Gill, Rudolph Schindler and the American Southwest
- Author Donald Leslie Johnson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition New edition
- Pages 260
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2013
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781409428176 / 1409428176
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- Aspects (Academic): Architectural
- Library of Congress subjects Concrete blocks, Wright, Frank Lloyd - Criticism and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013003632
- Dewey Decimal Code 721.044
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