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Eaton, Leonard Kimball was born on February 3, 1922 in Minneapolis. Son of Leo Kimball and Elizabeth (Barber) Eaton.
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Two Chicago Architects and Their Clients: Frank Lloyd Wright and Howard Van Doren Shaw
(Unlike writers, painters, or composers, who can produce f...)
Unlike writers, painters, or composers, who can produce finished works of art in expectance of future recognition, the architect is dependent on the immediate availability of patrons and clients and is constrained by their needs, funds, and wishes. The study of these patrons and clients is a vital if often neglected part of architectural history. This book depicts the backgrounds, personalities, and attitudes of two groups of clients involved in the dramatic confrontation in Chicago around the turn of the century between Frank Lloyd Wright and one of the ablest of his conventional contemporaries, Howard Van Doren Shaw.
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Hardy Cross: American Engineer
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In this close study of a key figure in the history of technology, Leonard K. Eaton examines Hardy Cross's training, his work, his teaching, and his ideas, demonstrating how his achievements represent a pivotal moment in the history of structural engineering. During Cross's tenure at the University of Illinois (1921-37), he developed the "moment distribution method," allowing mathematicians to calculate statistically indeterminate frames of reinforced concrete for the first time. Later known as the Cross method, this achievement made possible the calculations that allowed for safe and efficient designs from reinforced concrete--a new material at the time--and the subsequent architectural revolution.
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Gateway Cities and Other Essays (Great Plains Environmental Design Series)
(A collection of essays on the environmental culture of th...)
A collection of essays on the environmental culture of the American Midwest & the Canadian Northwest by a man who, as a professor at the Univ. of Michigan has spent his life studying the subject. The major series of essays deals with warehouses & warehouse districts in St. Paul, Omaha, St. Joseph, & Winnipeg, but there are other significant contributions dealing with the landscape architect Jens Jensen, little-known buildings by the Chicago architect John Wellborn Root, & the election series of paintings by George Bingham. Buildings are treated in terms of architectural design, structural considerations, materials, & function. Extensive black & white photos & drawings.
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American Architecture Comes of Age: European Reaction to H. H. Richardson and Louis Sullivan
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Here is a book that examines one aspect of a pervasive American concern. The question of American cultural independence, identity, and maturity has preoccupied writers from Jefferson on. The matter of a dialogue—of mutual, interacting influence—between cultural ambassadors representing the various arts in Europe and in America is a familiar theme in the work of Henry James. James himself was one of the first American artists to have had an impact on the other side of the Atlantic; more than merely gaining recognition and admiration, he exerted a positive influence on English letters, as Poe earlier had on French Literature. However, prior to this book, it has been the received judgment that no American influenced European architecture until Frank Lloyd Wright made his massive presence felt around 1910, largely in Germany and the Netherlands. But Eaton argues that both H. H. Richardson and Louis Sullivan profoundly affected architectural practices in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth throughout Europe—except, interestingly, in the Romance countries. The author authenticates the influence of Richardson and Sullivan on a number of European architects, including Adolf Loos in Austria, Karl Moser in Germany and Switzerland, Eliel Saarinen in Finland, Ferdinand Boberg in Sweden, Hendrik Berlage in the Netherlands, and Sir John James Burnet in England. About 140 illustrations compare the work of these and other European architects with the buildings erected on the other side of the ocean by their two greatest American counterparts during this period. Eaton writes, "More than one author at the end of the century remarked that two decades previously it would have been unthinkable for a European to go to the United States for study, whereas by the late 1890s, it was a perfectly reasonable thing to do. American solutions to the problems of the tall office building and the individual dwelling house were particularly admired.... That European architects turned to Richardson and Sullivan for inspiration seems sufficient proof that American architecture had come of age in a broad cultural sense by the decade of the nineties." Separate chapters are concerned with American architecture and the problem of cultural maturity (discussing literature, painting, and sculpture as well as architecture); the American strain in British architecture; Karl Moser and the German Richardsonian; Adolf Loos and the Viennese image of America; Richardson and Sullivan in Scandinavia; the Richardsonian phase in Finnish architecture; and the influence of Sullivan on Hendrik Berlage.
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Two Chicago Architects and their Clients Frank Lloyd Wright and Howard van Doren Shaw
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Landscape Artist in America : The Life and Work of Jens Jensen
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The landscape gardens of Jens Jensen (1860-1951). 8.5x11", 251 pp., b&w photographs.
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- Two Chicago Architects and Their Clients: Frank Lloyd Wright and Howard Van Doren Shaw by Leonard K. Eaton (1969-09-15)
- Two Chicago Architects and Their Clients: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT and HOWARD VAN DOREN SHAW. With an appendix by Elizabeth M. Douvan.
- New England hospitals, 1790-1833 (New England Hospitals tells of the impact of an instituti...)
- Landscape Artist in America: The Life and Work of Jens Jensen (The landscape gardens of Jens Jensen (1860-1951). 8.5x11&...)
Leonard Kimball Eaton
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Leonard Kimball Eaton, American architecture educator. Decorated Bronze Star; recipient Finlandia award Finlandia Society Metropolitan New York, 1965; Ford Foundation faculty fellow, 1954-1955. Democratic candidate for county, City of Ann Arbor, 1957. With Army of the United States, World World War II, Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. Member Society Architectural Historians (board directors 1957-1958), Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Williams College, 1943; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1948; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1951.
Career
Member faculty, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1950-1989; professor architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1963-1989.
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Two Chicago Architects and Their Clients: Frank Lloyd Wright and Howard Van Doren Shaw
(Unlike writers, painters, or composers, who can produce f...)
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Gateway Cities and Other Essays (Great Plains Environmental Design Series)
(A collection of essays on the environmental culture of th...)
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Hardy Cross: American Engineer
(In this close study of a key figure in the history of tec...)
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New England hospitals, 1790-1833
(New England Hospitals tells of the impact of an instituti...)
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American Architecture Comes of Age: European Reaction to H. H. Richardson and Louis Sullivan
(Here is a book that examines one aspect of a pervasive Am...)
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Landscape Artist in America: The Life and Work of Jens Jensen
(The landscape gardens of Jens Jensen (1860-1951). 8.5x11"...)
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Landscape Artist in America : The Life and Work of Jens Jensen
(The landscape gardens of Jens Jensen (1860-1951). 8.5x11"...)
- Two Chicago Architects and Their Clients: Frank Lloyd Wright and Howard Van Doren Shaw by Leonard K. Eaton (1969-09-15)
- Two Chicago Architects and Their Clients: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT and HOWARD VAN DOREN SHAW. With an appendix by Elizabeth M. Douvan.
- Two Chicago Architects and their Clients Frank Lloyd Wright and Howard van Doren Shaw
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Two Chicago Architects and Their Clients: Frank Lloyd Wright and Howard Van Doren Shaw
Membership
Democratic candidate for council, City of Ann Arbor, 1957. With Army of the United States, World World War II, Mediterranean Theatre of Operations. Member Society Architectural Historians (board directors 1957-1958), Phi Beta Kappa Clubs: Army-Navy (Washington).
Connections
Married Ann Valentine White, December 24, 1979. Children– Mark. R., Elisabeth K.
