{"product_id":"crossing-boundaries-how-ornament-led-to-architecture-9781938938801","title":"Crossing Boundaries: How Ornament Led to Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrank Lloyd Wright, America's most noted architect, crossed boundaries as he thought and as he designed. He discussed subjects like democracy, machine, convention, alternatively as advocate and adversary, and his architecture crossed the line between inside and out with projections and recesses whose complex boundaries add depth to our experience of architecture and to our understanding of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWright also crossed boundaries of tradition in search of a new architecture he called \"organic architecture\" that embodied a unique American culture based on nature rather than imported precedent. For him, nature was not just the outside world; it included his own mind that interpreted nature by means of abstraction not imitation. That interpretation was initiated when he saw his mentor Louis Sullivan draw his amazing ornament.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrossing Boundaries with Frank Lloyd Wright\u003c\/i\u003e traces how Wright extrapolated the principles that structured Sullivan's ornament to the design of a whole building. Author Sidney K. Robinson proposes that the graphic pattern Wright used in \u003ci\u003eAn Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e is a diagram of an architect crossing between building and nature, between asserting and questioning. Following this pattern, Wright came to see ornament from the perspective of architecture and architecture from the perspective of ornament. That is how ornament can lead to architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sidney K. Robinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oa+d Archives Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938938801","brand":"Oa+d Archives Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45606385287305,"sku":"9781938938801","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7125c1af-d5af-4a3e-b2be-dc0026f73fdf.jpg?v=1776750837","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/crossing-boundaries-how-ornament-led-to-architecture-9781938938801","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}