Harwell Hamilton Harris

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University of California Press, 2000 M01 1 - 252 páginas
00 Lisa Germany's biography of Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990) details the work of an architect who successfully merged the ideals of modern and California regionalist architecture. Harris was a sculptor who changed careers when he saw Wright's Hollyhock House and realized that an architect could make sculpture on a monumental scale that both functioned as a home and moved in and out of nature. Germany traces the development of Harris's life and career, assessing his place in American modernism, in the development of regionalist architecture, and in the interpretation of a modern California lifestyle that would gain admirers throughout the world. Her discussion opens a window into the complexities of modernism in America during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Lisa Germany's biography of Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990) details the work of an architect who successfully merged the ideals of modern and California regionalist architecture. Harris was a sculptor who changed careers when he saw Wright's Hollyhock House and realized that an architect could make sculpture on a monumental scale that both functioned as a home and moved in and out of nature. Germany traces the development of Harris's life and career, assessing his place in American modernism, in the development of regionalist architecture, and in the interpretation of a modern California lifestyle that would gain admirers throughout the world. Her discussion opens a window into the complexities of modernism in America during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
 

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Forsaking the Formula 19031921
1
Form in Clay and Color 19221925
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Of Organisms Machines and the Illusion of Architecture 19261931
21
Rubbing Aladdins Lamp 19321934
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A Regrouping in Patterns 19441948
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Decline of the West 1950
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The TenFingered Grasp of Reality in the Split Cultures of Fort Worth
157
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Notes
205
Chronological Harris Bibliography
221
Index
247
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Lisa Germany has written widely on American architecture for Architectural Record, The New York Times, Harvard Design Magazine, Landscape Architecture, House and Garden and other journals.

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