Evolving Transcendentalism in Literature and Architecture

Frank Furness, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-4288-4
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Evolving Transcendentalism in Literature and Architecture: Frank Furness, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright demonstrates how American architects read literature and transformed abstract philosophy and literary form into physical substance. Furness, Sullivan, and Wright were inspired by such Transcendentalists as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, and attempted to embody the concepts of nature, American identity, and Universalism in their architecture. Notably, this book is the first attempt to concentrate on analyzing these architects’ works from the perspective of Transcendentalism. This is also the first time that reproductions of Wright’s copy of Leaves of Grass and several tape records of Wright’s Sunday morning talks, both held in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archive, have been published. Importantly, these Transcendentalist architects’ philosophy has been influential in the development of contemporary environmental architects all over the world, including Paolo Soleri (an Italian-American) and Glenn Murcutt (an Australian), both of whom are discussed in the final chapter of this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tanabe Uechi, Naomi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekturtheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Tanabe Uechi, Naomi
Naomi Tanabe Uechi was born in Tokyo. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature and American Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, and is Associate Faculty at Indiana University. Her publications include the Japanese translation of the screenplay, Gone with the Wind.

Naomi Tanabe Uechi was born in Tokyo. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature and American Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, and is Associate Faculty at Indiana University. Her publications include the Japanese translation of the screenplay, Gone with the Wind.