Leopold Eidlitz : architecture and idealism in the Gilded Age / Kathryn E. Holliday.

Main entry:

Holliday, Kathryn E.

Title & Author:

Leopold Eidlitz : architecture and idealism in the Gilded Age / Kathryn E. Holliday.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index.
Becoming American : from the Moldau to the Hudson -- The science of the beautiful -- "By no means a representative man" : allies and enemies -- Architecture as critique : the New York State Capitol commission -- The nature and function of art -- Appendix : catalog of works.

Summary:

"The first critical examination of the work of New York architect Leopold Eidlitz, America's first Jewish architect, founding member of the American Institute of Architects, and the first American to define a modern organic architecture, this book reveals his formidable influence. Though the organic tradition has long been understood to be a central defining feature of American architecture, associated most strongly with Chicago and Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Eidlitz in fact began the exploration of the organic ideal a generation earlier in New York. Eidlitz served as a lightning rod in the world of New York architecture, fomenting dissent and debate among his professional peers. While he made enemies of powerful Beaux-Arts practitioners such as Richard Morris Hunt and George B. Post, he found allies in the progressive community, among them Frederick Law Olmsted and Peter Cooper, founder of the Cooper Union. Though Eidlitz's career faltered in New York in the 1880s, his blend of idealism and pragmatism, of science and art, became crucial to the further development of organic architecture in Chicago."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

9780393732399 (hardcover)
0393732398 (hardcover)

Subject:

Eidlitz, Leopold, 1823-1908.
Eidlitz, Leopold, 1823-1908 Catalogs.
Eidlitz, Leopold 1823-1908
Eidlitz, Leopold.
Architects United States Biography.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architects.
Architektur
United States.

Form/genre:

Biography.
catalogs (documents)
Biographies.
Catalogs.
Catalogues.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257441
Call No.: BIB 187934
Status: Available

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