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 PATHFINDERS                  TOP
Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA
Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety of media on 
a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as they begin their 
research project.

Architecture--Wright and Fuller

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop.  Type in the topic you want to search. If you don't already have a topic, you can find some lists of books on these architects by typing in:

Wright, Frank Lloyd
Fuller, Buckminster
Architecture--History
Art--20th century--United States

Some titles we have are:
720
RIF		 Rifkind, Carol. A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture. New York: Dutton, 1998.
720
MUR		 Murphy, Wendy Buehr.  Frank Lloyd Wright.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1990.
720
VIS		 The Visual Dictionary of Buildings. 1st American ed.  New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1992.
720.9
GLA		 Glancey, Jonathan. The Story of Architecture. New York: DK Publishing, 2000.
720.973
WRI		 Wright, Frank Lloyd. A Testament.  New York: Horizon Press, 1957.
724
ICO		 Icons of Architecture : The 20th Century. New York: Prestel, 1998.
901.94
FUL		 Fuller, Buckminster. Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity. 
New York: Bantam Books, 1969.
B
WRI		 Adkins, Jan.  Frank Lloyd Wright : A Twentieth-Century Life. New York: Viking, 2007.

SELECTED WEB SITES

Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
http://www.thirteen.org/cgi-bin/bucky-bin/bucky.cgi
 From a PBS program, pages on his inventions, clips of other artists talking about Fuller, his 
other works including a car and a forum to discuss his work.

Buckminster Fuller FAQ
http://www.cjfearnley.com/fuller-faq.html
A wonderfully informative page with frequently asked questions about Buckminster Fuller and his mathematical and philosophical ideas. It covers Synergetics, Critical Path, Geodesic Domes and 
other inventions.

Buckminster Fuller Institute
http://www.bfi.org/
This site has some information on Fuller's life, his philosophies and on the domes.

Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House
 http://www.hfmgv.org/dymaxion/index.html
 A website about the exhibit of the house at the Henry Ford Museum. In 1991 the house was moved from Kansas to the Museum as a permanent exhibit.

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
http://www.franklloydwright.org/
Comprehensive site that includes biographical information, links to other sites, a listing of all 
sites which offer tours (some of which have live links to the site itself) and information about the 
Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

Fallingwater
http://www.paconserve.org/index-fw1.asp
Fantastic site on one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous houses--Fallinwater. There are great 
photos of the house, a wonderful article on Wright and Quicktime movie showing the interior of 
some of the rooms featuring the signature designs of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Kentuck Knob House--Frank Lloyd Wright
http://www.kentuckknob.com/
A great virtual tour can be had on this site, which give you loads of information about 
this house, which is an excellent example of Wright's work.

Digital Archive of American Architecture--Wright
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/FLW.html
Pictures of Wright's work from his early career to his last works. Each link sends you
to another page with many pictures of the houses he designed.

Great Architects Index Guide
http://architecture.about.com/od/greatarchitects/
From about.com an index to  architects. Go alphabetically to Fuller or Wright and you will
find loads of links to valuable pages about the architect.

ONLINE RESOURCES

Infotrac -- contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and business references.  Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Biography Resource Center.

bigchalk eLibrary-- online reference center including books, magazines, newspapers, pictures, maps and TV transcripts.

 Massachusetts Newsstand -- newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current), Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other Massachusetts newspapers.

Grolier Online -- 2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.  Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and also to relevant web sites where you can find more information on your topic.

REMOTE ACCESS

These databases are also available from home. You can gain access to these resources from home by going to the Answers...To Go! web page made available from the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System:

http://www.nmrls.org/answers/dbmvlc.html

and enter your public library card number (from Methuen or any MVLC member 
library) where you are prompted for a patron or user number.

CITING SOURCES

Using these links indicates the user is leaving 
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.

Edited by Media Staff
11/14/08
Date last edited
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