{"product_id":"crossing-boundaries-how-ornament-led-to-architecture-paperback","title":"Crossing Boundaries: How Ornament Led to Architecture - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSidney K. Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Lloyd Wright, America's most noted architect, crossed boundaries as he thought and as he designed. He discussed subjects like democracy, machine, convention, alternatively as advocate and adversary, and his architecture crossed the line between inside and out with projections and recesses whose complex boundaries add depth to our experience of architecture and to our understanding of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWright also crossed boundaries of tradition in search of a new architecture he called \"organic architecture\" that embodied a unique American culture based on nature rather than imported precedent. For him, nature was not just the outside world; it included his own mind that interpreted nature by means of abstraction not imitation. That interpretation was initiated when he saw his mentor Louis Sullivan draw his amazing ornament.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrossing Boundaries with Frank Lloyd Wright\u003c\/i\u003e traces how Wright extrapolated the principles that structured Sullivan's ornament to the design of a whole building. Author Sidney K. Robinson proposes that the graphic pattern Wright used in \u003ci\u003eAn Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e is a diagram of an architect crossing between building and nature, between asserting and questioning. Following this pattern, Wright came to see ornament from the perspective of architecture and architecture from the perspective of ornament. That is how ornament can lead to architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSidney K. Robinson is an educator, author, and architect whose lifelong fascination with Frank Lloyd Wright began as a ten-year-old perusing his architect father's Wendingen publication on Wright and by reading his \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e in high school. Interest in Wright led him to work for Alden Dow after graduating from Columbia University School of Architecture some four decades after Dow. Robinson returned to his hometown of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan for a doctorate in architectural history with a dissertation on Taliesin and Alden Dow's Studio. Robinson taught at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture for more than ten years until it ceased operations at Taliesin. He also taught design, history, and theory at Iowa State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago with visiting positions at the University of Michigan and Carleton College. Robinson has written books and articles on Wright, Dow, Bruce Goff (whose 1950 Ford House he has lived in for more than 35 years), the Picturesque, and historical preservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47533010288893,"sku":"9781938938801","price":41.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/mhDNvYT3Sw9781938938801.webp?v=1778698375","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/crossing-boundaries-how-ornament-led-to-architecture-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}