| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 188 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge research in architecture |
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Routledge research in architecture.
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| Contents |
Looking into a Modern Architect's Sense of Place -- From Germany to the Modern American Metropolises, 1905-1927 -- With Wright in Arizona and Taliesin, 1929-1933 -- Vernacular Influences I: The Native American Projects, 1938-1941 -- Vernacular Influences II: Reimagining Puerto Rico's Jibaro Hut, 1944-1948 -- The Grid and the Landscape: The Haeussler Residence, 1945 -- Open Air Rooms: The Emilio Rodriguez and Duchow Residences, 1951 and 1958 -- Additional House Types: Houses in Dense Urban Spaces and Modern Stilt Houses -- A Coda to a Sense of Place: The Klumb House, 1947-1984 |
| Summary |
"This book follows Henry Klumb's life in architecture from Cologne, Germany to Puerto Rico. Arriving on the island, Klumb was a one-time German immigrant, a moderately successful designer, and previously a senior draftsman with Frank Lloyd Wright. Over the next forty years Klumb would emerge as Puerto Rico's most prolific, locally well-known and celebrated modern architect. In addition to becoming a leading figure in Latin American modern architecture, Klumb also became one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most accomplished protégés, and an architect with a highly attuned social and environmental consciousness. Cruz explores his life, works, and legacy through the lens of a sense of place, defined as the beliefs that people adopt, actions undertaken and feelings developed towards specific locations and spaces. He argues that the architect's sense of place was a defining quality of his life and work, most evident in the houses he designed and built in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's Henry Klumb offers a historical narrative, culminating in a series of architectural analyses focusing on four key design strategies employed in Klumb's work: vernacular architecture, the grid and the landscape, dense urban spaces and open-air rooms. This book is aimed at researchers, academics and postgraduate students interested in Latin American architecture, modernism and architectural history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Cesar A. Cruz is an architectural historian and educator. He has taught architectural history and theory, building structures, and design in Illinois, Indiana, and New Mexico. In August 2016 he received his Doctorate in Architecture from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 02, 2020) |
| Subject |
Klumb, Henry, 1905-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Klumb, Henry, 1905-1984 fast |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Puerto Rico -- History
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Place (Philosophy)
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ARCHITECTURE / General
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Architecture
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Place (Philosophy)
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Puerto Rico
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019054855 |
| ISBN |
9780429054174 |
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0429054173 |
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9780429622540 |
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0429622546 |
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9780429618246 |
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0429618247 |
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9780429620393 |
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042962039X |
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