From Pine Parthenons to Pocketbooks: Frank Kidder, MIT, and the Reinvention of American Timber ca. 1862–84

IF 0.2 4区 艺术学 0 ARCHITECTURE
E. Carver
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Abstract Resource conflicts in late nineteenth-century America transformed cultural and technical understandings of building materials as settlers and industrialists alike brought pressure to bear on the research university. Architect-engineer Frank Kidder and his Architectural Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provide a window onto how these politics transformed the symbolic and pedagogical significance of timber. While the university’s engineers worked to expand logging amidst deforestation, its architects, like William Ware and Henry Van Brunt, devised an allied esthetics of materials that valorized forests and settlers in nationalist terms. Kidder brought these disciplines together, embodying the educated woodsman that Ware and Van Brunt sought to cultivate. His 1884 pocketbook promulgated their simultaneously rationalist and nostalgic view of timber among the new class of professional architects they trained.
从松树帕特农神庙到口袋书:Frank Kidder,麻省理工学院,《美国木材的革新》,约1862–84年
19世纪末,美国的资源冲突改变了对建筑材料的文化和技术理解,因为定居者和实业家都给研究型大学带来了压力。建筑工程师Frank Kidder和他在麻省理工学院的建筑实验室为了解这些政治如何改变木材的象征和教学意义提供了一扇窗户。当该大学的工程师们努力在森林砍伐中扩大伐木活动时,其建筑师,如威廉·威尔和亨利·范·布伦特,设计了一种联合的材料美学,以民族主义的术语为森林和定居者估价。Kidder将这些学科结合在一起,体现了Ware和Van Brunt寻求培养的受过教育的樵夫。他1884年的钱包在他们培养的新一代专业建筑师中公布了他们对木材的理性主义和怀旧主义观点。
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