BENJAMIN HENRY LATROBE. [Architect Theodore van Fossen association copy.]

Hamlin, Talbot, 1889-1956. [Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe, 1764-1820; Theodore van Fossen, 1919-2010.]

Edité par New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1969.

INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED AS A GIFT FROM ARCHITECT THEODORE VAN FOSSEN. Second printing (as stated upon copyright page; first published 1955). xxxvi, 633 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Dull red cloth with some rubbing and light stains to boards; spine cloth sunned with mottling; slight flaking/rubbing to spine's gilt and black stamping; front board's gilt still fairly bright. Toning, foxing, and some soiling strongest to text block's top edge. Eight-line black ink inscription "Merry Christmas, | to Sue and Sam | who struggle with some of | the same things that | Latrobe did. | with love | - Ted | 1973" on front free endpaper; also laid-in at front endpapers is small five-line note in red ink "For Sue, Sam | and the | Martin girls. | with love | Ted" as well as two partially toned/foxed sheets of personal stationary notepaper with four-page ALS (autographed letter signed on each sheet's respective verso and recto) from architect Theodore Van Fossen (his printed address being "Route One, Champion, Pennsylvania) relaying his insightful thoughts on Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Slight toning/foxing to endpapers; light staining to pages vii-viii; interior pages overall remain quite clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy. With Prologue, five sections of b/w plates on unpaged leaves, b/w illustrations (including plans and elevation drawings), Appendix, Major Sources (i.e. bibliography), and Index. Critic and bibliographer Bernard Karpel lauded Hamlin's Latrobe monograph as the "definitive biography of 'America's first professional architect.'" An architect and renowned architectural historian, Talbot Hamlin won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Biography as well as the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award by the Society of Architectural Historians. Although not a direct student of Frank Lloyd Wright, architect Theodore van Fossen (1919-2010) was a Wright-devotee and drew heavily upon organic architecture and Usonian concepts in his commissions with departures from Wright's pure horizontal line necessitated by construction convenience as well as occasional geometric experiments as to angles and verticality as well as nods to the influence of Philip Johnson and the International Style. In partnership with husband and wife developers and fellow Wright enthusiasts Martha and Richard Wakefield, Ted van Fossen planned and designed most of the fifty-three Usonian-themed residential structures in the landmark Rush Creek Village community of Worthington, Ohio, a development started in 1954 running into the 1970s and so acclaimed for its unity and harmony of design that it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in August 2003. Van Fossen's personal papers, drawings, etc. are held by the University of Minnesota Libraries' Northwest Architectural Archives. The book's inscribees, Sue and Sam T. Martin of Great Falls, Virginia, commissioned Ted Van Fossen to design their residence and evidently became close friends with the noted architect as well. N° de réf. du vendeur CVA-00607

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Titre : BENJAMIN HENRY LATROBE. [Architect Theodore ...
Éditeur : New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1969.
Reliure : Couverture rigide