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The Architecture of Bart Prince: A Pragmatics of Place [Hardcover]

Christopher Curtis Mead (Author), Michele M. Penhall (Photographer)

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Series: Norton Books for Architects & Designers | Publication Date: May 1, 1999

The only book on the exuberant work of a uniquely original American architect Bart Prince, whose breathtaking buildings stand from Ohio to Hawaii, is recognized internationally for embodying the American tradition of individualism personified by Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Bruce Goff.

This study of Prince views his architecture as an open-ended process of cultural discovery and experimentation. It shifts attention from theoretical abstractions like organicism to what Prince believes to be architecture's proper subject: the experience of place produced when an architect responds to the practical and psychological realities of a specific client, program, and budget in the context of a particular site.

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“Bart Prince may be the most creative architect practicing in America today. . . . Mead provides the thoughtful, well-reasoned analysis necessary to understand this work.” (David De Long, Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania )

About the Author

Christopher Curtis Mead, a professor of art and art history at the University of New Mexico, lives in Albuquerque.

Product Details

Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (May 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393730328
ISBN-13: 978-0393730326
Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces

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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,480,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, Yes and Yes. Prince is just that., December 29, 2002

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If Frank Lloyd Wright is King, than indeed Bart Prince is Prince. The photographs in the book are brilliant and Christopher Mead's Commentary is awesome and highly informative as well. Showing a lot into Bart Prince the man himself. I hope one day to own a Bart Prince Home.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Eye Candy!, October 24, 2003

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If your a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene and Greene or Kendrick Kellogg, then you will find this book quiet fascinating.
Prince seems to take his work a step further than most architects offering a touch of fantasy to his architecture. The book has lots of glossy photos, floor plans and information on Prince's life and work.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mead's writing/subject is enlightening, learned, enjoyable, June 11, 2000

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A book as interesting as the funky forms it analizes. I have had the honour of both reading this book and attending Professor Mead's architecture retrospective class series. The book is filled with an incledibly informed, and informative text which is supported with excellent photos and diagrams. I highly reccomend this book for students of architecture, or just for an interesting read, and if you find yourself in the area of the University Of New Mexico, I highly suggest you do yourself the favour of sitting in on one of Professor Mead's lectures

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4.0 out of 5 stars great for photos...not so great for design info
Because of the small amount of work that Bart Prince has produced over the years has resulted on very little articles of his work. Read more

Published 11 months ago by Sanoskai

5.0 out of 5 stars Knowledgeably compiled and deftly written
Now in a newly revised and expanded edition, "The Architecture of Bart Prince: A Pragmatics of Place" knowledgeably compiled and deftly written by Christopher Mead (Professor of... Read more

Published 21 months ago by Midwest Book Review

5.0 out of 5 stars escaping categories in BPrince's ardhitecture
Since I personlly know both author/wife and architect I can look back over 12 or 13 years and say, uniquivocally, that Dr Mead and his wife/photographer have not only escaped the... Read more

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BARTON BRADFORD PRINCE came into the world in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on June 24, 1947, freighted with the lineage of three surnames. Read the first page

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southeast elevation, organic architecture, exterior view, gallery addition, interior view, north elevation, south elevation

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New Mexico, Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, Bradford Prince, United States, Bruce Goff, Los Angeles, Joseph Smith, Willard Richards, American West, Price Residence, Sally Prince, Thomas Jefferson, Albuquerque Museum, Brad Prince, Central Avenue, Louis Sullivan, William Prince, World War, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, Arizona State University, New World, Willard Brigham Richards, George Wynn

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In the Cause of Architecture: Essays by Frank Lloyd Wright for Architectural Record, 1908-1952, with a Symposium on Architecture With and Without Wright by Eight Who Knew Him by Frank Lloyd Wright on 4 pages
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New Mexico (America the Beautiful) by R. Conrad Stein on page 128, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
New Mexico: A Promise Made/A Place Called Home/Making Amends (Heartsong Novella Collection) by Janet Lee Barton on page 105, page 110, and page 118
Walter Gropius (Dover Books on Architecture) by Siegfried Giedion on page 156, and Back Matter

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