03257nam a2200373Ia 4500 pucpr 20220518143540.0 042711t20042004caua f b 001 0 eng d 9780804739412 0804739412 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET NA7238.S8 T87 2004 728.80979473 22 Turner, Paul Venable, 285294 Mrs. Hoover's pueblo walls : the primitive and the modern in the Lou Henry Hoover House. / Paul V. Turner. txt Stanford, California : Stanford University Press , 2004. xviii, 116 p. ill. ;plans. ; 26 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Include Index Include Bibliography Lou 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. -- "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. Hoover, Lou Henry (1874-1944) Homes and haunts California Stanford. 236037 Local Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 Homes and haunts California Stanford. Local 112225 Lou Henry Hoover House (Stanford, Calif.) 247836 Local Architecture Domestic California Stanford. 54087 Local Architecture California Stanford 20th century. 54081 Local 78017 College presidents dwellings California Stanford Stanford (Calif.) Buildings, structures, etc. 279981 Local lcc 6 NA7238.S8 General T87 2004 221852 221852 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2011-03-11 amazon 8.00 481285 0 General NA7238.S8 T87 2004 91000000021766 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 18.00 2011-03-11 6