The Modernist Architecture of Samuel G. and William B. Wiener: Shreveport, Louisiana, 1920-1960 Contributor(s): Kingsley, Karen (Author), Carwile, Guy W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807161624 ISBN-13: 9780807161623 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Regional - Social Science | Regional Studies |
Dewey: 720.976 |
LCCN: 2015035561 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 10.7" W x 9.7" (2.20 lbs) 200 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In 1933, architect William B. Wiener collaborated with his half-brother Samuel G. Wiener to design a weekend home for his family on the shore of Cross Lake, just outside Shreveport, Louisiana. A year later the house appeared in the pages of Architectural Forum, the leading architectural journal of its day, as a foremost example of the new modernist style yet to take hold in the United States. The featured home would mark the first in a series of buildings -- residential, commercial, and institutional -- designed by Samuel (1896--1977) and William (1907--1981) that incorporated the forms and materials found in the new architecture of Europe, later known as the International Style. These buildings, located in Shreveport and its vicinity, composed one of the largest and earliest clusters of modernist buildings by American-born architects and placed the unexpected area of northern Louisiana in the forefront of architectural innovation in the mid-twentieth century. |