num_pages: 352
description: Frank Furness' energy, confidence, brashness, vulgarity, and full-throated love of life vibrate in his architecture. This first biography details his abolitionist upbringing in staid Philadelphia, the horror of war and its translation into aggressive architecture - train stations, banks, and libraries - and illuminates his influence on his century and the world. 200 b/w illustrations
language: English
title: Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind
titlecomplete: Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind
ratings_count: 10
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company