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The Architecture of Bart Prince

 

ISBN 73032-8
1999 / 82 color, 95 b/w illustrations / 176 pages

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The Architecture of Bart Prince

A Pragmatics of Place

by Christopher Curtis Mead

Photographs by Michele M. Penhall

The only book on the exuberant work of a uniquely original American architect Bart Prince, whose breathtaking buildings stand from Ohio to Hawaii, is recognized internationally for embodying the American tradition of individualism personified by Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Bruce Goff. This study of Prince views his architecture as an open-ended process of cultural discovery and experimentation. It shifts attention from theoretical abstractions like organicism to what Prince believes to be architecture's proper subject: the experience of place produced when an architect responds to the practical and psychological realities of a specific client, program, and budget in the context of a particular site.

"Bart Prince may be the most creative architect practicing in America today. . . . Mead provides the thoughtful, well-reasoned analysis necessary to understand this work." - David De Long, Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania

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ISBN 73032-8 / 1999 / 82 color, 95 b/w illustrations / 176 pages

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