Irving Gill and the architecture of reform : a study in modernist architectural culture

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The work Irving Gill and the architecture of reform : a study in modernist architectural culture represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Irving Gill and the architecture of reform : a study in modernist architectural culture

Title remainder

a study in modernist architectural culture

Statement of responsibility

Thomas S. Hines

Creator

• Hines, Thomas S

Contributor

• Gill, Irving, 1870-1936

Subject

• Architecture -- United States -- 20th century
• Gill, Irving, 1870-1936 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Gill, Irving, 1870-1936 -- Critique et interprétation

Language

eng

Summary

"This study traces the architect's journey from his native Syracuse to a Chicago apprenticeship with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright to the development of his career as an early modernist architect in Southern California. In assessing Gill's still underappreciated achievement, Thomas S. Hines places his work within an international context: as Gill's identification with the modern movement developed, his work evolved from the influence of the East Coast Shingle Style and Wright's Midwest Prairie Style to become closer in spirit to the work of the Austrian Adolf Loos. Gill and Loos were both admired by the second-generation modernists Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra, who studied under Loos in Vienna and learned from Gill in Los Angeles. Hines also explores the social dimensions of Gill's work. His interest in the contemporary Progressive Movement, particularly its ethos of social, economic, and gender equality, was the wellspring for a series of projects for middle- and lower-income residents as well as for an intense concern with the functionality and convenience of his domestic designs." "Illustrated throughout with black-and-white archival photographs and featuring twelve pages of full-color plates, Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform presents a comprehensive analysis of the oeuvre of a "rediscovered" modern master."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

NA737.G53

LC item number

H55 2000

Literary form

non fiction