Frank Lloyd Wright's Annie M. Pfeiffer Chapel for Florida Southern College: Modernist Theology and Regional Architecture

Siry, Joseph M.

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“…The campus should enable people to be in harmony with living and learning in nature. The Florida Southern College campus successfully realised President Spivey's vision in which education and place were meant to be coordinated [28]. In this sense, it is important to preserve this campus not only for the sustainability of historic buildings, but also to preserve the memory of people who have lived and visited there.…”

Section: Sustaining Memories For Cultural Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…He called this system a 'reflex'. Wright had applied this site plan concept since the mid-1920s [11]. This reflex system of buildings and walkways takes good advantage of the local landscapes and materials.…”

Section: Campus For Freedom Of Spiritual Catharsismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The following year, after the move, the Orlando-based architect Frederick H. Trimble was appointed as the designer for the campus master plan. He designed two buildings at this time in the general colonial style using normal and simple brick construction [8]: the Dormitory for Women (now Joseph-Reynolds Hall) and the Social Hall (now Edge Hall). Ludd Myrl Spivey, who became president of the college in 1925, changed the commission with Trimble in 1938.…”

Section: Campus For Freedom Of Spiritual Catharsismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cultural sustainability through architectural preservation: A case study of Frank Lloyd Wright's Florida Southern College

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This paper explores the approach to cultural sustainability through architectural preservation. It analyses Frank Lloyd Wright's design of the Florida Southern College campus in Lakeland, Florida in the United States as a case study. This campus contains the largest unified collection of Wright's architecture. Between the 1930s and the 1950s, he designed the master plan as well as 10 individual buildings for this project. These buildings compose the core of the campus, which is located on a hillside facing a lake to the south. The campus serves as a critical exemplar for demonstrating the cohesive interaction between humanity, buildings, and landscapes that is lacking in typical modernism. In addition, this campus demonstrates influences from various Eastern thoughts on Frank Lloyd Wright's design. The preservation of this campus is not only related to the cultural and historical identity of this college, but also acts as a lived site for visitors to reflect on the fundamental meaning of human existence. In order to investigate this topic, my research employs archival materials such as writings, drawings, photos, and manuscripts relating to Florida Southern College. They are interpreted through phenomenological analysis similar to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics. Through the case study, this paper investigates and explores how the preservation of historic buildings and landscapes can sustain people's memories and desires for a poetical life, which are ways to enhance the value of cultural sustainability.

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Section: Sustaining Memories For Cultural Sustainabilitymentioning

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Section: Campus For Freedom Of Spiritual Catharsismentioning

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Paul Rudolph and the Psychology of Space:

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2019

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

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The chapels at Tuskegee University and Emory University are among the most inventive—and least known—works of the American modernist architect Paul Rudolph (1918–97). In Paul Rudolph and the Psychology of Space: The Tuskegee and Emory University Chapels, Karla Cavarra Britton and Daniel Ledford analyze these buildings as significant exemplars of the postwar American university chapel, finding them subject to three seminal influences in Rudolph's life: his childhood experience of Southern Methodism, his encounters with the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, and his admiration for Le Corbusier's religious works. The chapels evoke powerful aesthetic and emotive experiences in their audiences, reflecting Rudolph's ambition that architecture should be grounded in a “psychology of space.” The Tuskegee Chapel, designed at the apex of Rudolph's career (1960–69), engages the university's African American musical and educational legacy. The Cannon Chapel at Emory, meanwhile, built late in Rudolph's professional life (1975–81) as a multiuse space for the university's school of theology, exhibits a contrasting pattern of complexity and intransigence.

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Annie M. Pfeiffer Chapel for Florida Southern College: Modernist Theology and Regional Architecture

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Cultural sustainability through architectural preservation: A case study of Frank Lloyd Wright's Florida Southern College

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