Howard, Hugh

Summary: "As the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their pioneering work in architecture and landscape design. Frederick Law Olmsted is widely revered as America's first and finest parkmaker and environmentalist, the force behind Manhattan's Central Park, Brooklyn's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.092 HOW

Summary: Uses interviews and archival footage to tell the story of the melodramatic life and stunning architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2001

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FRA

Nevala-Lee, Alec

Summary: "From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America's idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, BUCKMINSTER NEV

Baldwin, J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620 BAL

Summary: "Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. His legacy becomes ever more relevant, providing us a road map to steer our planet away from oblivion-- and toward a sustainable future for all of humanity. This film ... transports the viewer into Fuller's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Masters & Masterworks 2008

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOR

Summary: Explore the life of Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, whose visionary buildings include St. Louis's Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center in Michigan. Travel with his son as he showcases the architect's body of timeless work, which continues to inspire amongst renewed interest in 20th century architects and artists who exploded the constraints of the past to create a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EER

Maddex, Diane.

Contents: Midwestern modern -- Composed order -- The studio -- The home -- The Dow gardens -- Facts -- The buildings of Alden B. Dow -- Patents and inventions -- Honors -- Professional and honorary memberships -- Alden B. Dow archives -- Sources -- Illustrations -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alden B. Dow Home and Studio 2007

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720.92 MAD

Secrest, Meryle.

Summary: Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings, and books. She also interviewed surviving devotees, students, and relatives. The result is an explicit portrait of both the genius...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD SEC

Baker, Jean H.

Summary: An English emigre who became America's first professional architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe put his stamp on the built landscape of the new republic. Latrobe contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Navy Yard. He created some of the early republic's greatest neoclassical interiors, including the Statuary Hall and the Senate,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LATROBE, BENJAMIN HENRY BAK

Summary: Nathaniel Kahn documents the life and works of his father, Louis Kahn. Louis Kahn had an "official" family, including his wife Esther and daughter Sue Ann. He had two other secret families: with fellow architect Anne Tyng he had a daughter, Alexandra, and with his colleague Harriet Pattison he had Nathaniel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MY

Drennan, William R.

Summary: The least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright's life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark Wisconsin residence. The details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright's legion of biographers--a gap finally addressed here. In response to the scandal of his open affair with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Terrace Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 DRE

Guerrero, Pedro E.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pomegranate Artbooks 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 GUE

Hendrickson, Paul

Summary: Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD HEN

Lesser, Wendy

Summary: "A definitive biography of the iconic American architect, Louis Kahn"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAHN, LOUIS LES