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Description:Ellwood’s houses grow out of something quite new: the practical possibilities of advanced, 20th century construction. Still, Ellwood is no mere engineer. Because his discovery of architecture came through structure, structure remains, to this day, his principle and favorite discipline. Ellwood is, of course, not the first to discover the logic of skin and bones structure, but he is the first to discover that it could be realized with existing American materials and techniques – and at very low cost. In an industry as thoroughly inefficient as that of American homebuilding, Ellwood has been able to prove that logic, simplicity and exquisite taste can combine to produce buildings that are actually cheaper than those built daily by allegedly expert and cost-conscious builders. While no architect is primarily interested in justifying his work in terms of cost, the cost factor does serve as a kind of double check on the validity of certain basic assumptions. Judging by the results of that check, he has indeed found a new natural way of buildings in an industrialized society. He has mastered a simple, logical, elegant vocabulary in building. He has used this vocabulary to create eloquent structures and spaces, to produce some outstandingly successful integrations of architecture and landscape, often in a manner that seems like an abstraction of the Japanese …. I think he is one of those who will make the new architecture mature.-Peter BlakeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Craig Ellwood: Architecture. To get started finding Craig Ellwood: Architecture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 155

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Walker and Company

Release: 1968

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Description: Ellwood’s houses grow out of something quite new: the practical possibilities of advanced, 20th century construction. Still, Ellwood is no mere engineer. Because his discovery of architecture came through structure, structure remains, to this day, his principle and favorite discipline. Ellwood is, of course, not the first to discover the logic of skin and bones structure, but he is the first to discover that it could be realized with existing American materials and techniques – and at very low cost. In an industry as thoroughly inefficient as that of American homebuilding, Ellwood has been able to prove that logic, simplicity and exquisite taste can combine to produce buildings that are actually cheaper than those built daily by allegedly expert and cost-conscious builders. While no architect is primarily interested in justifying his work in terms of cost, the cost factor does serve as a kind of double check on the validity of certain basic assumptions. Judging by the results of that check, he has indeed found a new natural way of buildings in an industrialized society. He has mastered a simple, logical, elegant vocabulary in building. He has used this vocabulary to create eloquent structures and spaces, to produce some outstandingly successful integrations of architecture and landscape, often in a manner that seems like an abstraction of the Japanese …. I think he is one of those who will make the new architecture mature.-Peter BlakeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Craig Ellwood: Architecture. To get started finding Craig Ellwood: Architecture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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