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

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