Frank Lloyd Wright's SC Johnson Research Tower
By: written and photographed by Mark Hertzberg ; foreword by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer.
Contributors: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Publisher: Pomegranate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780764956096
Subjects: Wright, Frank Lloyd, -- 1867-1959 -- Criticism and interpretation; Johnson Wax -- Buildings; Tall buildings -- Wisconsin -- Racine; Chemical laboratories -- Wisconsin -- Racine; Racine (Wis.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Other titles: SC Johnson Research Tower
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Why not go up in the air, Frank?" / foreword by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer; title: Introduction; title: The people. The scientist; title: The architect; title: The client; title: Designing the tower. "A plain factory kind of job"; title: Friends and adversaries; title: Furnishing the tower; title: Trouble with the state; title: Main entrance; title: Decorative plaque; title: Building the tower. Construction challenges; title: Layout of the tower; title: Aesthetic triumph or practical success?; title: Additions to the tower complex; title: The tower closes. The tower's future.