American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame
Autor Roxanne Kuter Williamsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 1991
In this study of more than six hundred American architects who have achieved a place in architectural histories, Williamson finds that only a small minority do not fit the "right person–right time" pattern. She traces the apprenticeship connection in case studies of Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Hobson Richardson, the firm of McKim, Mead & White, Latrobe and his descendants, the Bulfinch and Renwick Lines, the European immigrant masters, and Louis Kahn.
Although she acknowledges and discusses the importance of family connections, the right schools, self-promotion, scholarships, design competition awards, and promotion by important journals, Williamson maintains that the apprenticeship connection is the single most important predictor of architectural fame. She offers the intriguing hypothesis that what is transferred in the relationship is not a particular style or approach but rather the courage and self-confidence to be true to one's own vision. Perhaps, she says, this is the case in all the arts.
American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame is sure to provoke thought and comment in architecture and other creative fields.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292729223
ISBN-10: 0292729227
Pagini: 298
Ilustrații: b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292729227
Pagini: 298
Ilustrații: b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Roxanne Kuter Williamson is Professor Emerita, School of Architecture, the University of Texas at Austin.
Cuprins
- Acknowledgments
- 1. A Network of Connections
- 2. The Time as Well as the Place
- 3. A Consensus of Who Is Famous and Who Is Not: The Index of Fame
- Part I. Case Studies: The Apprenticeship Connection
- 4. Louis Sullivan
- 5. Frank Lloyd Wright
- 6. Henry Hobson Richardson
- 7. McKim, Mead & White
- 8. Latrobe and His Descendants
- 9. The Bulfinch and Renwick Lines
- 10. The European Immigrant Masters in the Twentieth Century
- 11. Louis Kahn
- 12. The Loners
- Part II. Conventional Wisdom about Architects’ Predispositions for Fame
- 13. Connections: Family, Friends, Schools
- 14. Self-promotion and Publicity
- 15. Other, Weaker Patterns
- 16. The Historians as Fame Makers
- 17. Afterword on the Fame-Making System
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Architects
Descriere
An investigation into why some architects become famous while other equally talented ones do not.