Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-century poetics of naturalized architecture
By: Lauren S. Weingarden.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780754663089
Subjects: Sullivan, Louis H., -- 1856-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation; Sullivan, Louis H., -- 1856-1924 -- Aesthetics; Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of figures; title: Preface and acknowledgements; title: List of abbreviations; title: Introduction. Reviewing Sullivan after modernism; title: Ch. 1. The romantic context and Emerson's poetic project for an American art; title: Ch. 2. John Ruskin : the picturesque discourse and the language of architectural naturalism; title: Ch. 3. Gothic naturalism and the Ruskinian critical tradition in America; title: Ch. 4. The auditorium building : a Ruskinian reading; title: Ch. 5. Ruskin's reception in the Chicago School; title: Ch. 6. Sullivan's emergence as a landscape poet-architect; title: Ch. 7. Naturalized technology : Sullivan's theory of skyscraper design; title: Ch. 8. Ut pictura architectura : Sullivan's pictorial techniques for representing nature in architecture; title: Ch. 9. The transportation building : Sullivan's manifesto of poeticized architecture; title: Ch. 10. Epilogue. The problem of Sullivan's poetic legacy; title: Selected bibliography; title: Index.