Alden b dow biography book
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Maddex, Diane.
Alden B. Dow : midwestern modern / Diane Maddex.
Midland, Mich. : Alden B. Dow Home and Studio ; New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton, ©2007.
239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index.
Midwestern modern -- Composed order -- The studio -- The home -- The Dow gardens -- Facts -- The buildings of Alden B. Dow -- Patents and inventions -- Honors -- Professional and honorary memberships -- Alden B. Dow archives -- Sources -- Illustrations -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
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A 2008 Michigan Notable Books selection
"Alden Dow was a midwesterner bygd birth, but he left a legacy national in nature. Active from the early 1930s through the late 1970s, he designed some six hundred projects - often daringly modern houses and religious buildings, schools and colleges, business and ci
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Alden B. Dow Midwestern Modern, Hardcover
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Alden B. Dow Midwestern Modern, Hardcover
By: Diane Maddex
Active from the early 1930s through the late 1970s, Alden B. Dow designed some six hundred projects—often daringly modern houses and religious buildings, schools and colleges, business and civic structures, and even a whole new town in Texas; Lake Jackson. He changed the face of his hometown of Midland, Michigan, leaving it more than 130 structures; houses, offices and plants for The Dow Chemical Company, churches, banks, schools, civic and recreational structures. Nowhere is Dow’s genius more evident than in his Home and Studio in Midland, a National Historic Landmark. Alden B. Dow: Midwestern Modern tells the story of both this exceptional residence and the architect who spent a half century developing his vision of a more humane way of building.
Beginning with the family—his father founded The Dow Chemical Company—and the town that encouraged him, the book
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Alden B. Dow | FAIA | Architect
Biography
Born in Midland, Michigan on April 10, 1904, Alden B. Dow was the son of Grace Ball Dow and Herbert Henry Dow, Founder of the Dow Chemical Company. He attended the University of Michigan studying engineering with plans to join his father’s firm. However, after three years, his keen interest in design led him to the study of architecture at Columbia University. After earning his degree in 1931, Mr. Dow joined an architectural firm in Saginaw, Michigan.
During the summer of 1933, young Mr. Dow studied and worked with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin in Wisconsin. In Wright, he found a kindred spirit. Their shared interest in organic architecture strengthened Mr. Dow’s own work and philosophy.
Returning to Midland, he opened his own architectural offices in a studio/home of his own design. Today the firm is known as DOW-Howell-Gilmore Associates, Inc. the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio and has been designated a Nati