Two photos of stairs one an interior with the Affleck family dog at top of stairs the other an exterior view of bricked area around stairs at Affleck house in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Photograph by Harvey Croze.
Creator
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Identifier
AH-HC-028
Creator2
Croze, Harvey (photograph)
Creator Nationality
American
Work Type
dwellings
Date
1948
Work Location
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Style/Period
modern North American architecture styles and movements
Exterior view of stairs at the Affleck house in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Image is glued to cardboard with three other images.
Creator
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Identifier
AH-AP-041
Creator Nationality
American
Work Type
dwellings
Work Location
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Style/Period
modern North American architecture styles and movements
View of relief work on the eastern stairway of the Apadana at Persepolis in Iran. "The eastern stairs of the Apadana at Persepolis show a procession of people bringing tribute to the Achaemenid king. The reliefs were made in the last years of the sixth century, and probably executed by Yaunâ artists. We are allowed to identify the king on the central scene with Darius the Great (r. 522-486), but the relief is also an idealization: the king who receives the presents is not a particular individual, but embodies Persian rule,"--Livius.org
View of large stairway of Apadana at Persepolis in Iran. "The Apadana or Audience Hall of Persepolis (map 1) belongs to the oldest building phase of the palace complex, the grand design by Darius I the Great (r. 522-486). On this place, the great king received the tribute from all the nations in the Achaemenid Empire, and gave presents in return. One of the arguments to assume that this was the function of the Apadana, is the splendid relief on the eastern stairs, which consists of representations of all nations in the Achaemenid Empire,"--Livius.org
View of staircase of Apadana at Persepolis in Iran. "The Apadana or Audience Hall of Persepolis (map 1) belongs to the oldest building phase of the palace complex, the grand design by Darius I the Great (r. 522-486). On this place, the great king received the tribute from all the nations in the Achaemenid Empire, and gave presents in return. One of the arguments to assume that this was the function of the Apadana, is the splendid relief on the eastern stairs, which consists of representations of all nations in the Achaemenid Empire. It was clearly important, because the same relief was repeated on the northern stairs when the main entrance was moved from the east to the north. When people came to pay tribute, they saw on the stairs representations of themselves,"--Livius.org
View of stairway at the Apadana of Persepolis in Iran. "The Apadana or Audience Hall of Persepolis (map 1) belongs to the oldest building phase of the palace complex, the grand design by Darius I the Great (r. 522-486). On this place, the great king received the tribute from all the nations in the Achaemenid Empire, and gave presents in return,"--Livius.org
View of the great staircase at the Palace of Minos at Knossos. "Homer mentions the great city of Knossos in the Odyssey. It was located on Crete, the largest of the Aegean islands. Because by legend King Minos ruled this city, the civilization is thus termed Minoan. Sir Arthur Evans discovered the buried remains of this palace and adjoining buildings in 1900 which at its height covered about six acres. This large multi-storied palace was organized around a central court, but the plan itself was complex, often called labyrinthine, in reference to the legendary Cretan labyrinth. The palace contained well-stocked magazines, royal apartments, shrines, a throne room, and service areas. Sir Evans excavated and reconstructed much of the site with some restorations in different materials (for example, the restored stone columns were originally wood) ... A stepped balustrade separates the staircase from a large light-well, which has on two sides superimposed colonnades. The unique columns taper from a wide top to a narrower base. Originally the columns were wood,"--by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University.
View of the grand staircase at the Palace of Minos at Knossos in Crete. "Homer mentions the great city of Knossos in the Odyssey. It was located on Crete, the largest of the Aegean islands. Because by legend King Minos ruled this city, the civilization is thus termed Minoan. Sir Arthur Evans discovered the buried remains of this palace and adjoining buildings in 1900 which at its height covered about six acres. This large multi-storied palace was organized around a central court, but the plan itself was complex, often called labyrinthine, in reference to the legendary Cretan labyrinth. The palace contained well-stocked magazines, royal apartments, shrines, a throne room, and service areas ... A stepped balustrade separates the staircase from a large light-well, which has on two sides superimposed colonnades. The unique columns taper from a wide top to a narrower base. Originally the columns were wood,--by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University.
International Style (modern European architecture style)
Modern (styles and periods)
Subject
houses
stairs
Description
Detail view of steps leading up to the Farnsworth house in Plano, Illinois designed by Mies van der Rohe and built in 1951. "The significance of the Farnsworth House was recognized even before it was built. In 1947 a model of the Farnsworth House was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Describing it, along with the unbuilt Resor House, as a “radical departure from his last European domestic projects,” Philip Johnson noted that it went further than the Resor house in its expression of the floating volume: “The Farnsworth house with its continuous glass walls is an even simpler interpretation of an idea. Here the purity of the cage is undisturbed. Neither the steel columns from which it is suspended nor the independent floating terrace break the taut skin” … In the actual construction, the aesthetic idea was progressively refined and developed through the choices of materials, colors and details. While subsequent debates and lawsuits sometimes questioned the practicality and livability of its design, the Farnsworth House would increasingly be considered, by architects and scholars alike, to constitute one of the crystallizing and pivotal moments of Mies van der Rohe’s long artistic career,"--Farnsworth House website.