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082 0 4 _a720.973/09034
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aThomas, George E.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aFrank Furness :
_bArchitecture in the Age of the Great Machines /
_cGeorge E. Thomas.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (312 p.) :
_b34 color, 84 b/w illus.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aHaney Foundation Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tForeword The American Creativity of Frank Furness --
_tPrologue. A Revolutionary Generation --
_tChapter 1. “Buildings Out of His Head” --
_tChapter 2. The Philadelphia Client: Industry and the Future --
_tChapter 3. Two Competitions: Boston’s Trinity Church and Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts --
_tChapter 4. Buildings as Machines: The Mature Architect --
_tEpilogue. Sullivan, Price, and Howe --
_tNotes --
_tSelected Bibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aFrank Furness (1839-1912) has remained a curiosity to architectural historians and critics, somewhere between an icon and an enigma, whose importance and impact have yet to be properly evaluated or appreciated. To some, his work pushed pattern and proportion to extremes, undermining or forcing together the historic styles he referenced in such eclectic buildings as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania Library. To others, he was merely a regional mannerist creating an eccentric personal style that had little resonance and modest influence on the future of architecture. By placing Furness in the industrial culture that supported his work, George Thomas finds a cutting-edge revolutionary who launched the beginnings of modern design, played a key part in its evolution, and whose strategies continue to affect the built world.In his sweeping reassessment of Furness as an architect of the machine age, Thomas grounds him in Philadelphia, a city led by engineers, industrialists, and businessmen who commissioned the buildings that extended modern design to Chicago, Glasgow, and Berlin. Thomas examines the multiple facets of Victorian Philadelphia's modernity, looking to its eager embrace of innovations in engineering, transportation, technology, and building, and argues that Furness, working for a particular cohort of clients, played a central role in shaping this context. His analyses of the innovative planning, formal, and structural qualities of Furness's major buildings identifies their designs as initiators of a narrative that leads to such more obviously modern figures as Louis Sullivan, William Price, Frank Lloyd Wright and eventually, the architects of the Bauhaus.Misunderstood and reviled in the traditional architectural centers of New York and Boston, Furness's projects, commissioned by the progressive industrialists of the new machine age, intentionally broke with the historical styles of the past to work in a modern way—from utilizing principles based on logistical planning to incorporating the new materials of the industrial age. Lavishly illustrated, the book includes more than eighty black-and-white and thirty color photographs that highlight the richness of his work and the originality of his design spanning more than forty years.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aArchitecture
_zPennsylvania
_zPhiladelphia.
650 0 _aArchitecture
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aArchitecture
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 7 _aARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs.
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653 _aArchitecture.
653 _aBooks of Regional Interest.
653 _aFine Art.
653 _aGarden History.
653 _aTechnology and Engineering.
653 _aUrban Studies.
700 1 _aHess, Alan
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294835
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812294835
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