Alden B. Dow: Midwestern Modern, Diane

摘要

In their bicentennial publication, American Architecture 1607-1976 (MIT Press, 1981), Marcus Whiffen and Frederick Koeper comment that, 'few of Wright's students were able to summon up the self-confidence necessary for independent, creative work. Among those who did were Alden Dow and John Lautner' (p. 372). Lautner's reputation is now well-established but Dow's, meanwhile, has faded. Sydney K. Robinson's monograph, The Architecture of Alden B. Dow (Wayne State University Press, 1983), appears to be the last work published on Dow so now, a quarter of a century later, Maddex's study is welcome, but it also raises the question of why Dow is not better known.