Book Information:
| Title | The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture |
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| Author | Bragdon, Claude Fayette; |
| Publisher | Knopf |
| Publish Date | 1922 |
| ISBN | |
| Pages | 111 |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Notes | A collection of seven essays on theosophy and architecture. The essays are titled as follows,'The Art of Architecture', 'Unity and Polarity', 'Changeless Change', 'The Bodily Temple', 'Latent Geometry', 'The Arithmetic of Beauty' and 'Frozen Music'. Claude Bragdon was an American Architect, writerand stage designer. He earned a national reputation as an architect who worked in the progressive tradition associated with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Along with other members of the Prairie School he developed new approaches to planning, design and ornamentation of buildings. Brandon's main argumenton his architectural stance is that only'organic architecture' based on nature could fosterdemocratic community in an industrial and capitalist society. |
| URL | https://lccn.loc.gov/22021924 |
| TRRF Call No. | AR-00273R |
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