03067nam a2200337Ia 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023020001800064020001600082040003400098050002400132082002100156100002600177245011800203264006400321300004800385336002600433337002800459338002700487500001800514504002500532505022500557520150000782600008302282600008002365610005302445650005602498650006102554650005602615651005802671pucpr20220518143540.0042711t20042004caua f b 001 0 eng d a9780804739412 a0804739412  apucprbengcpucprdpucprerda aNA7238.S8bT87 200404a728.809794732221 aTurner, Paul Venable,10aMrs. Hoover's pueblo walls :bthe primitive and the modern in the Lou Henry Hoover House. /cPaul V. Turner.htxt aStanford, California :bStanford University Press , c2004. axviii, 116 p.bill. ;plans. ;c26 cm.fbook 2rdacontentatextbtxt 2rdamediaaunmediadedbn 2rdacarrieravolumebnc aInclude Index aInclude Bibliography0 aLou Henry and Herbert Hoover -- Creation of the house -- What kind of architecture is it? -- The Hoovers and indigenous architecture -- The primitive and the modern -- Stanford presidents who have lived in the house. --  a"Two questions have intrigued observers of the Lou Henry Hoover House, built at Stanford University in 1919 by Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover and now the official residence of the university's president. Who was the building's architect? And what was the motive for its unusual, cubic, flat-roofed, undecorated form? This book shows that although professional architects were involved in the project, the architect was actually Lou Henry Hoover herself, who conceived the design of the house and worked out its details, using her architects largely for technical matters and to produce the drawings and supervise construction. As for the design, the book argues that it was inspired mainly by the Native American Pueblo architecture of New Mexico and Arizona. Herbert Hoover, in fact, called it a "Hopi house," and Lou referred to her "Pueblo walls," but the Pueblo connection was later denied by others involved in the project." "This book reveals that both of the Hoovers were interested in Native American culture, and that Lou, in particular, was fascinated with the "primitive" architecture of the non-Western world, which she had studied during the years when she and Herbert had lived and worked in Asia and elsewhere. Primitive forms did not appeal to her for their exoticism, as was typical at the time, but for the virtues she found in them. The Hoover House is a remarkable example of the contribution of non-Western or indigenous architecture to the development of modernism."--Jacket.10aHoover, Lou Henryd(1874-1944)xHomes and hauntszCaliforniazStanford.2Local10aHoover, Herbert,d1874-1964xHomes and hauntszCaliforniazStanford.2Local20aLou Henry Hoover House (Stanford, Calif.)2Local 0aArchitecture DomesticzCaliforniazStanford.2Local 0aArchitecturezCaliforniazStanfordy20th century.2Local 0aCollege presidentsvdwellingszCaliforniazStanford 0aStanford (Calif.)xBuildings, structures, etc.2Local