The last of the second-generation architects in Southern California, Harris, a native Californian and the son of an architect, was first struck by the power of building when he saw Wright's Hollyhock House in 1925. While he later worked with Schindler and Neutra, his work always reflected the organic roots of Wright, with details reflecting Maybeck and the Greene Brothers. This detailed account of his life and career follows Harris from California to Texas through his final years in North Carolina.
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The last of the second-generation architects in Southern California, Harris, a native Californian and the son of an architect, was first struck by the power of building when he saw Wright's Hollyhock House in 1925. While he later worked with Schindler and Neutra, his work always reflected the organic roots of Wright, with details reflecting Maybeck and the Greene Brothers. This detailed account of his life and career follows Harris from California to Texas through his final years in North Carolina.
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Fine. Book First edition. Foreword by Kenneth Frampton. Introduction by Bruno Zevi. Quarto. xx, 252pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white and color photographs, plans, etc. Extensive notes, chronological bibliography, index. Tan cloth lettered in black. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A detailed monograph of this important American architect. Traces the development of Harris' life (1903-1990) and career, assessing his place in American Modernism, in the development of regionalist architecture, and in the interpretation of a modern California lifestyle. Harris emphasized California regionalism and the democratic single family home. His work was admired worldwide. Richly illustrated with floor plans, renderings and photographs by Julius Shulman, Maynard Parker, Fred Dapprich, Man Ray and others.
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As new in as new jacket. Foreword by Kenneth Frampton. Introduction Bruno Zevi. Austin: University of Texas Press, c1991. first edition. 252pp, index, color, black and white illustrations and photographs. 4to. As new unread hardcover in as new d/j.