9780806164601-0806164603-Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture

Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780806164601
ISBN-10: 0806164603
Author: Luca Guido, Stephanie Pilat PhD, Angela Person PhD
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780806164601
ISBN-10: 0806164603
Author: Luca Guido, Stephanie Pilat PhD, Angela Person PhD
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages

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Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture (ISBN-13: 9780806164601 and ISBN-10: 0806164603), written by authors Luca Guido, Stephanie Pilat PhD, Angela Person PhD, was published by University of Oklahoma Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Vernacular (Architecture) books. You can easily purchase or rent Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Vernacular books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.85.

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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.
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