Bruce Goff

Author : Arn Henderson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806158298
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bruce Goff written by Arn Henderson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned today as one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904–1982) was only twelve years old when a Tulsa architectural firm took him on as an apprentice. Throughout his career he defied expectations, not only as a designer of innovative buildings but also as a gifted educator and painter. This beautifully illustrated volume, featuring more than 150 photographs, architectural drawings, and color plates, explores the vast multitude of ideas and themes that influenced Goff’s work. Tracing what he calls Goff’s “path of originality,” Arn Henderson begins by describing two of Goff’s earliest and most significant influences: the architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the French composer Claude Debussy. As Henderson explains, Goff embraced from a young age Wright’s ideal of organic expression, where all elements of a building’s design are integrated into a unified whole. Although Goff’s stylistic dependence on Wright eventually waned, the music of Debussy, with its qualities of mystery and “discipline in freedom,” was a perpetual source of inspiration. Henderson also emphasizes Goff’s identification with the American West, particularly Oklahoma, where he developed most of his ideas and created many of his masterful buildings. Goff served as a professor at the University of Oklahoma between 1947 and 1955, becoming the first chair of its School of Architecture. The new studio course he introduced was a pivotal development, ensuring that his ideas were imparted to the next generation of architects. Part biography of a well-known architect, part analysis of Goff’s work, this book is also a finely woven tapestry of information and interpretation that encompasses the ideas and experiences that shaped Goff’s artistic vision over his lifetime. Based on scores of interviews with Goff’s associates and former students, as well as the author’s firsthand study of Goff’s extant buildings, this volume deepens our appreciation of the great architect’s lasting legacy.

Author : Luca Guido
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166398
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renegades written by Luca Guido and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like America itself, the architecture of the United States is an amalgam, an imitation or an importation of foreign forms adapted to the natural or engineered landscape of the New World. So can there be an "American School" of architecture? The most legitimate claim to the title emerged in the 1950s and 1960s at the Gibbs College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma, where, under the leadership of Bruce Goff, Herb Greene, Mendel Glickman, and others, an authentically American approach to design found its purest expression, teachable in its coherence and logic. Followers of this first truly American school eschewed the forms most in fashion in American architectural education at the time—those such as the French Beaux Arts or German Bauhaus Schools—in favor of the vernacular and the organic. The result was a style distinctly experimental, resourceful, and contextual—challenging not only established architectural norms in form and function but also traditional approaches to instructing and inspiring young architects. Edited by Luca Guido, Stephanie Pilat, and Angela Person, this volume explores the fraught history of this distinctively American movement born on the Oklahoma prairie. Renegades features essays by leading scholars and includes a wide range of images, including rare, never-before-published sketches and models. Together these essays and illustrations map the contours of an American architecture that combines this country’s landscape and technology through experimentation and invention, assembling the diversity of the United States into structures of true beauty. Renegades for the first time fully captures the essence and conveys the importance of the American School of architecture.

Author : Bruce Goff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bruce Goff written by Bruce Goff and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Bruce Goff written by Jeffrey Cook and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip B. Welch
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806128689
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goff on Goff written by Philip B. Welch and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, when Goff was head of the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture, Oklahoma emerged as the nation's most daring, avant-garde training ground in the discipline. This book, edited by Philip B. Welch, is compiled from tapes recorded with Goff's permission by Welch, who was one of Goff's students, a longtime friend, and himself a prominent teacher of architecture, Goff on Goff embodies some of the architect's most stimulating lectures and conversations. They have never before been available to readers. Goff's now-legendary teaching method was to throw his students back onto themselves. He stressed honesty: honesty to materials and honesty to the creative impulse, the client, the total environment. An advocate of Gertrude Stein's "continuous present", Goff himself embodied the idea: the torrents of words, ideas, and exhortations that rolled from his tongue held his hearers spellbound. The material reflects the breadth of Goff's mind and interests. A lifelong lover of the music of Debussy, he devotes much of one session to the composer's influence on his architectural work. To paraphrase Goff on music and architecture, ideas, not forms, are the best starting point for structuresand he once designed a house starting with the requirement that it have a revolving door. Goff praises traditional Japanese culture for its homogeneity - and immediately urges his students not to be daunted by the problems of diversity.

Author : David Gilson De Long
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bruce Goff written by David Gilson De Long and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1988 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Goff's designs for homes, churches, hotels, lodges, fraternity houses, and studios and discusses his unusual approach to architecture.

Author : Carol Mason
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438457170
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oklahomo written by Carol Mason and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the state of Oklahoma as a case study for how US conservatives have attempted to unqueer America since the 1950s. By exploring the scandal-filled lives of four Oklahomans, this book demonstrates how unqueering operates in a conservative American context. Carol Mason weaves a story about how homogenizing, antigay ideas evolve from generation to generation so that they achieve particular economic, imperial, racial, and gendered goals. Using engaging and accessible commentary on antigay crusaders (Sally Kern and Anita Bryant) and two queer teachers dismissed from their positions (Billy James Hargis and Bruce Goff), Mason illustrates how the lives of these figures represent paradigmatic moments in conservative confrontations with queers and help us to understand the conflation of terrorism with homosexuality, which dates back to the McCarthy era. “Oklahomo is a wonderful addition to recent queer studies of critical regionalism, rural life, and sexual norms. Via four spot-on case studies, Carol Mason traces a hypnotic history of the US Right that deepens our knowledge of how cultures of terror materialized alongside cultures of sexuality in the American Midwest. Overflowing with acuity, this book is mandatory reading for scholars invested in LGBTQ studies, rural/urban studies, and forgotten tales of modern conservatism.” — Scott Herring, author of Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism

Author : Philip B. Welch
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080617319X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goff on Goff written by Philip B. Welch and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architect Bruce Goff was not afraid to be different. One of the most innovative designers the United States has produced in the twentieth century-a member of a select band that included Frank Lloyd Wright (with whom Goff worked), Louis Sullivan, and Mies Van der Rohe-he rode the crest of the architectural wave that swept through the country with the post-World War II technological revolution. In the 1950s, when Goff was head of the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture, Oklahoma emerged as the nation’s most daring, avant-garde training ground in the discipline. This book, edited by Philip B. Welch, is compiled from tapes recorded with Goff’s permission by Welch, who was one of Goff’s students, a longtime friend, and himself a prominent teacher of architecture. Goff on Goff embodies some of the architect’s most stimulating lectures and conversations. They have never before been available to readers. Goff’s now-legendary teaching method was to throw his students back onto themselves. He stressed honesty: honesty to materials and honesty to the creative impulse, the client, the total environment. An advocate of Gertrude Stein’s "continuous present," Goff himself embodied the idea: the torrents of words, ideas, and exhortations that rolled from his tongue held his hearers spellbound. The material reflects the breadth of Goff’s mind and interests. A lifelong lover of the music of Debussy, he devotes much of one session to the composer’s influence on his architectural work. To paraphrase Goff on music and architecture, ideas, not forms, are the best starting point for structures-and he once designed a house starting with the requirement that it have a revolving door. Goff praises traditional Japanese culture for its homogeneity-and immediately urges his students not to be daunted by the problems of diversity. Recalling the enthusiasm Goff’s students felt for the future of architecture, Welch points out that the material is as pertinent today as it was when Goff delivered it.

Author : Christopher Curtis Mead
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Bart Prince written by Christopher Curtis Mead and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a look at new buildings by Bart Prince, this book examines the work of a uniquely American contemporary architect. The work of Bart Prince is recognized internationally for both its seminal creative vision and for carrying on an American tradition of individualism in architecture originating with Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Bruce Goff. Prince shares with these pioneers a fundamental way of thinking about modern American architecture, which in his work he has combined with a firm belief in the experiential impact of a building to render a contemporary style all his own. Originally published a decade ago, this updated version includes five new houses, demonstrating the architect’s maturing style and continued commitment to creating transcendent experiences in manipulated space. Stunning photographs and floor plans bring the reader as close as possible to experiencing these uniquely formed, magnificent buildings. A remarkable collaboration between the author, the photographer, and the architect, The Architecture of Bart Prince is the only comprehensive introduction to one of the most creative architects practicing in America today.

Author : Bruce Goff
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Bruce Goff, 1904-1982 written by Bruce Goff and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the work of the American architect Bruce Goff