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Date Posted: 01:55:27 02/10/11 Thu
Author: BC
Subject: Biltmore Castle - Asheville, NC
In reply to: BC 's message, "Just sayin' "Hi" ..." on 15:34:31 02/08/11 Tue

Richard Morris Hunt
- architect of the Biltmore located in Asheville, NC
- 1828-95, American architect, b. Brattleboro, Vt.,
- studied in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the École des Beaux-Arts ...
- a leading practitioner of 19th-century eclecticism. Hunt worked under T. U. Walter on the extensions of the Capitol at Washington, D.C.
- in New York City he founded the first American studio for training young architects ...
- he was one of the organizers of the American Institute of Architects, of which he became president in 1888.

Most of his work was closely imitative of historic styles. It included ...
- the Lenox Library, New York City (later torn down)
- the first building for the Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge, Mass.
- the U.S. naval observatory at Washington, D.C.
- the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
- numerous magnificent residences, such as those of the Vanderbilts in New York City and Newport, R.I
- and the Biltmore House in Asheville, N.C.
- his Tribune Building in New York was one of the first elevator buildings.








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[> Frank Lloyd Wright ... -- BC, 02:01:39 02/10/11 Thu

"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground..."
"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity..."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
" ... considered the most influential American architect of the 20th century. His legacy is an architectural style that departed from European influences to create a purely American form, one that included the idea that buildings can be in harmony with the natural environment. Over his long career Wright designed a wide variety of structures, both public and private, including the home known as Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax Building and New York's Guggenheim Museum."



"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other."
- F.L.W.


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