Puerto Rico's Henry Klumb : a modern architect's sense of place. / txt
César A Cruz.
- xvi, 188 p. ill. ; photo. ; 25 cm. book
Include index
1 Looking into a Modern Architect's Sense of Place -- A sense of place — a theoretical underpinning -- Defining place -- Places as sources of meaning, and other factors leading to a sense of place -- Searching for evidence of phenomenological thinking -- Investigative cycles and narrative writing -- 2 From Germany to the Modern American Metropolises, 1905-1927 -- Henry Klumb's pamphlet series: an introduction -- Klumb's German period, 1905-1927: the setting that began to shape a young modern architect -- Klumb, the early modernists, and higher values -- Klumb and the (un)natural modern city, 1927-1929 -- 3 With Wright in Arizona and Taliesin, 1929-1933 -- Camp Ocotillo -- Taliesin -- 4 Vernacular Influences I: The Native American Projects, 1938-1941 -- Respecting tradition, nature, and context in Native American architecture -- The Tulsa, Gallup, and San Francisco exhibits -- Klumb in Sells, Arizona -- Lasting impressions of the American Southwest and Klumb's experiences there -- 5 Vernacular Influences II: Reimagining Puerto Rico's Jibaro Hut, 1944-1948 -- Klumb's Puerto Rico, February 1944 -- Puerto Rico's post-war modernist project in context -- The jibaro but in Klumb's pamphlets -- The jibaro but reimagined through the Teacher's Farms -- A return to the more traditional jibaro but through the Low Cost Rural Houses -- 6 The Grid and the Landscape: The Haeussler Residence, 1945 -- Klumb's orthogonal and triangular grids in Puerto Rico's terrain -- The Haeussler Residence -- The Evans Residence -- The Ewing, Fullana, Tugwell, and Foreman homes -- The grid and the landscape within a series of oppositions -- 7 Open Air Rooms: The Emilio Rodriguez and Duchow Residences, 1951 and 1958 -- Klumb's initial open air rooms in Puerto Rico — the patio -- The varied moods of nature at Klumb's terraces, verandas, cross-ventilated spaces, and breezeways -- 8 Additional House Types: Houses in Dense Urban Spaces and Modern Stilt Houses -- Balancing nature with the burgeoning modern city -- The Kogan house -- The Marrero and Velez houses -- Klumb's modern stilt houses -- The jibaro but reimagined once more -- A career in its twilight, 1967-1984 -- 9 A Coda to a Sense of Place: The Klumb House, 1947-1984 -- Impressions of the Klumb House -- An early personal transition for Klumb in Puerto Rico -- Viewing the Klumb House through the architect's naturalistic worldview -- Figures -- 2.1 Photograph of the Cologne Cathedral -- 2.2 Photograph of New York Harbor -- 3.1 Site plan, Camp Ocotilla -- 3.2 Photograph of Camp Ocotillo -- 3.3 Aerial perspective, Taliesin -- 4.1 Model Rooms nos. 1 and 2 -- 4.2 Floor plan and perspective, the Papago Tribal Community House -- 4.3 Interior perspective, the Papago Tribal Community House -- 5.1 Map of Puerto Rico -- 5.2 Maps of the San Juan metropolitan area, 1947 and 1969 -- 5.3 Photograph of a "jibaro shack" by Edwin Rosskam -- 5.4 Klumb's collage, "Puerto Rico" -- 5.5 Aerial perspective and plan, the Teacher's Farms in concrete -- 5.6 Details, the Teacher's Farms in native materials -- 5.7 Plan, the-Low Cost Rural Houses (phase 1) -- 5.8 Elevation and plan, the Low Cost Rural Houses (phase 2) -- 5.9 Axonometric and plan, the Low Cost Rural Houses (phase 3) -- 6.1 Satellite images of the Bosch and Ewing houses -- 6.2 Site plan, the Haeussler Residence -- 6.3 Floor plans, the Evans Residence -- 6.4 Site plan and floor plan, the Fullana Residence -- 6.5 Elevation and floor plan, the Tugwell Cottage -- 6.6 Perspective, the Foreman Mountain Retreat -- 7.1 Perspective and floor plan, the Emilio Rodriguez House -- 7.2 Perspective, the Bosch House -- 7.3 Perspectives, the Duchow Residence -- 7.4 Floor plans, the Duchow Residence -- 8.1 Site plan and perspective, the Marrero House -- 8.2 Section and floor plan, the Velez House -- 8.3 Site plan, the Benitez Mountain Cottage -- 8.4 Section and floor plan, the Benitez Mountain Cottage -- 9.1 Photograph of the Klumb House exterior -- 9.2 Photograph of the Klumb House living room -- 9.3 Floor plan, the Klumb House -- 9.4 Photographs of a sitting area and hammock at the Klumb House --
"This book follows Henry Klumb's life in architecture from Cologne, Germany to Puerto Rico. Arriving on the island, Klumb was a one-time German immigrant, a moderately successful designer, and previously a senior draftsman with Frank Lloyd Wright. Over the next forty years Klumb would emerge as Puerto Rico's most prolific, locally well-known and celebrated modern architect. In addition to becoming a leading figure in Latin American modern architecture, Klumb also became one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most accomplished protégés, and an architect with a highly attuned social and environmental consciousness. Cruz explores his life, works, and legacy through the lens of a sense of place, defined as the beliefs that people adopt, actions undertaken and feelings developed towards specific locations and spaces. He argues that the architect's sense of place was a defining quality of his life and work, most evident in the houses he designed and built in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's Henry Klumb offers a historical narrative, culminating in a series of architectural analyses focusing on four key design strategies employed in Klumb's work: vernacular architecture, the grid and the landscape, dense urban spaces and open-air rooms. This book is aimed at researchers, academics and postgraduate students interested in Latin American architecture, modernism and architectural history"--
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Klumb, Henry, 1905-1984 --Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture--History--Puerto Rico--20th century. Architecture--History--Puerto Rico Criticism and interpretation. Place (Philosophy)