American Buildings and Their Architects

The turn of the century was one of the most creative and innovative periods in American architecture, a time of elaborate craftsmanship and functional simplicity when Louis Simpson's dictum, "Form follows function," became the new principle of architectural design. Jordy documents this marriage of technology and art in the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, and Irving Gill.

List of Illustrations

ix

A Prefatory Word and Acknowledgments

xix

Masonry Block and Metal Skeleton: Chicago and the ``Commercial Style''

1

(82)

Functionalism as Fact and Symbol: Louis Sullivan's Commercial Buildings, Tombs, and Banks

83

(97)

The Organic Ideal: Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House

180

(37)

Craftsmanship as Structural Elaboration: Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House

217

(29)

Craftsmanship as Reductive Simplification: Irving Gill's Dodge House

246

(29)

Craftsmanship and Grandeur in an Architecture of Mood: Bernard Maybeck's Palace of Fine Arts and First Church of Christ Scientist

275

(39)

The Beaux-Arts Renaissance: Charles McKim's Boston Public Library

314

(62)

Notes

376

(21)

Glossary of Terms

397

(8)

Index

405

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American Buildings and Their Architects Volume 4: Progressive and Academic Ideals at the Turn of the Century

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