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Frank Heyling Furness (November 12, 1839 – June 27, 1912) was an American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often inordinately scaled buildings, and for his influence on the Chicago -based architect Louis Sullivan.
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Frank Furness: Inventing Modern
Learn about Frank Furness, a prominent Philadelphia architect who designed the University Library (now Fisher Fine Arts Library) for the University of Pennsylvania. Explore his life, career, and style influenced by the American West and industrial age.
26 de fev. de 2020 · Frank Furness (12 November 1839–27 June 1912) took an original course that accelerated the transformation of American architecture from an art rooted in the past to one that responded to the rapidly changing materials, technologies, and circumstances of the Industrial Age.
Frank Furness (1839 –1912) was appointed to design the li-brary by his brother, Horace Howard Furness (1833 –1912), the celebrated Shakespearean scholar who headed the build-ing committee. For once nepotism was justified: Furness had already designed two of Philadelphia’s three library buildings as well as several private libraries.
1 de jun. de 2019 · Frank Furness: Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines. By. George E. Thomas. . ( Philadelphia. : University of Pennsylvania Press. , 2018. . xii. , 281. pp. $59.95.) Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Journal of American History, Volume 106, Issue 1, June 2019, Pages 208–209, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaz253. Published: 01 June 2019. Views. Cite.
