Glen Mitchell House
The Glen Mitchell house has angular geometry and a large sloping wood shingle roof. Bruce Wrightsman, an architect of the Kansas State Historical Society, wrote that Goff's houses often had "large overhangs with thin eaves set over a large expanse of glass, giving the roof a sense of lightness," and noted that the Mitchell House's roof in particular "swooped upward, giving the roof the sense of flight as it floated over clerestory glass bringing in natural light to the open space." He also commented that colored glass is incorporated in the walls to create unique lighting characteristics and strengthen the organic expression of the home.
Professor Arn Henderson, of the University of Oklahoma, found Goff to be " an American genius" in a 2000 review of his works. But Henderson considered the Glen Mitchell House in Kansas to be "uninspired", and complained that the house "with a monochromatic cladding of wood shakes lacked both delicacy and the visual contrast that characterized much of his work." However, on reading Goff speak of his own theories of Music and Architecture in the Philip Welch edited collection of Goff's conversations and lectures one could surmise that this is a classic example of an architectural composition on a unique site with music as its inspiration and the monochromatic characteristics are part of the unique composition on a unique site.
References
- ^ Steimel, Evelyn (October 26, 1969). "Tibetan Castle Rises From Kansas Prairie". The Hutchinson News. Hutchinson, Kansas. Retrieved 2 March 2017 – via Newspaperarchive.com.
- ^ http://www.artic.edu/sites/default/files/archgoffmo.pdf Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bruce Wrightsman (September–October 2002). "Recognizing His Kansas Contribution: The Architecture of Bruce Goff" (PDF). Kansas Preservation. 25 (4). Kansas State Historic Society: 5–8.
- ^ Henderson, Arn (July 31, 2000). "Resources Designed by Bruce Goff in Oklahoma, 1918–1982" (PDF). National Park Gallery. Washington, D. C.: United States Department of the Interior. 0MB #1024-0018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017. PDF only viewable with the edge browser.
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ Welch, Philip (Editor and Introduction). Goff on Goff. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958. ISBN 0-8061-2868-2, p.227-254
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External links
- [1], Kansas Historic Preservation Resources, checked March 2, 2017.
- [2] page 4, Bruce Goff Collection, Mitchell, Glen (Dr.) House, The Art Institute of Chicago.
- [3], Pym Films, Goff in the Desert.
Further reading
- Emanuel, Muriel. Contemporary Architects. New York: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1980. ISBN 978-1-349-04184-8, p. 292.
- Welch, Philip (Editor and Introduction). Goff on Goff. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958. ISBN 0-8061-2868-2.