Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-century poetics of naturalized architecture/
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
[c2009]
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Abbreviations of frequently cited sources and institutions
- Preface and acknowledgements
- About the author
- Introduction : reviewing Sullivan after Modernism
- 1. The Romantic context and Emerson's poetic project for an American art
- 2. John Ruskin : the picturesque discourse and the language of architectural naturalism
- 3. Gothic naturalism and the Ruskinian critical tradition in America
- 4. The auditorium building : a Ruskinian reading
- 5. Ruskin's reception in the Chicago School
- 6. Sullivan's emergence as a landscape poet-architect
- 7. Naturalized technology : Sullivan's theory of skyscraper design
- 8. Ut pictura architectura : Sullivan's pictorial techniques for representing nature in architecture
- 9. The transportation building : Sullivan's manifesto of poeticized architecture
- 10. Epilogue : the problem of Sullivan's poetic legacy
- Selected bibliography
- Index.