Intimate Triangle: Architecture of Crystals, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Froebel Kindergarten

Rubin, Jeanne Spielman; Foreword by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

ISBN 10: 0971877602 / ISBN 13: 9780971877603

Published by Polycrystal Book Service, 2002

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Hardcover with dustjacket : like new / fine minus. Jacket in new mylar protector; remnant from sticker glue on back, otherwise like new. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # 130715

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Intimate Triangle: Architecture of Crystals, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Froebel Kindergarten
• Publisher: Polycrystal Book Service
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0971877602
• ISBN 13: 9780971877603
• Binding: Hard Cover with Dustjacket
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine-
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography / Autobiography / Memoir
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

Rubin, motivated by Frank Lloyd Wright's credit to the early childhood influence of Froebel Kindergarten on his architectural design, illuminates the evolution of the Froebel Kindergarten and the intriguing connections to some of the greatest talents in the arts and sciences of the twentieth century. A must for anyone interested in early childhood education or the creative forces behind the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Review

"A delightful and immediately useful connection between the science of crystallography, early childhood education, and the practical art of architecture" -- Alan Friedman, Director of the New York Hall of Science

"An impressive piece of creative scholarship"; "nontrivial statement about an effect of early experience on later human development" -- Sheldon White, Psychology chair, Harvard University

"Froebel's kindergarten emerges as a prime germinating factor for the arts and science of the twentieth century" -- Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Adrt. Yale University