Dear Mrs. Freeman: I am glad to know that you are still happily 'at home.' Sincerely, Frank Lloyd Wright. Winner of The University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation's 2012 Historic Preservation Book Prize, this book is a case study on the preservation of an important work of modern architecture. The story of the Freeman House, and of the attempt to save it, entails almost all of the provocative issues that make historic preservation as a field so fascinating, technologically and theoretically complex, and politically charged.Saving Wright chronicles the ongoing struggle to save Wright's Freeman House in the Hollywood Hills, the setting for fascinating people and events but deeply flawed from the time it was built ninety-five years ago. The Freeman House was an experiment born out of Frank Lloyd Wright's polemical vision of a new kind of architecture for the middle class, for modern America, and, in particular, for the Los Angeles foothills. Its design and construction were difficult, thus, along with many poor decisions, planting within a beautiful work of architecture the seeds of its own destruction. Jeffrey M. Chusid, who lived in the house and studied it while Harriet Freeman was still alive and residing there and, later, after she gave it to the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California, examines the experimental textile-block construction system, the power of Wright's architecture, the interaction of people and place, and the concepts and challenges of historic preservation-why and how we do it. The Freeman House is a valuable case study because it serves as a test of established preservation procedures and protocols, of building forensics and conservation techniques, and of the meaning of a historic site to overlapping and not necessarily compatible communities.Saving Wright also received an honorable mention for the 2012 Lee Nelson Book Award from the Association for Preservation Technology, Intl. (APT).
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-13
9780393733020
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105507936
Product Key Features
Book Title
Saving Wright: the Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity
Author
Jeffrey M. Chusid
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
264mm
Item Width
226mm
Item Weight
1082g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jeffrey M. Chusid
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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