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Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Robert Mccarter

Número de Páginas: 224

A cultural icon who defined the twentieth-century American landscape, Frank Lloyd Wright has been studied from what seems to be every possible angle. While many books focus on his works, torrid personal life, or both, few solely consider his professional persona, as a man enmeshed in a web of prominent public figures and political ideas. In this new biography, Robert McCarter distills Wright’s life and work into a concise account that explores the beliefs and relationships so powerfully reflected in his architectural works. McCarter examines here how Wright aspired to influence America’s evolving democratic society by the challenges his buildings posed to traditional views of private and public space. He investigates Wright’s relationships with key leaders of art, industry, and society, and how their views came to have concrete significance in Wright’s work and writings. Wright argued that architecture should be the “background or framework” for daily life, not the “object,” and McCarter dissects how and why he aspired to this and other ideals, such as his belief in the ethical duty of architects to improve society and culture. A penetrating study of the foremost...

Tresors de Taliesin

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright , Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

Número de Páginas: 167

The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 466

Presents a collection of significant writings of Frank Lloyd Wright.

The Show to End All Shows

Autor: Kathryn Smith

Número de Páginas: 234

Discussion and documents relating to an exhibition called "Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect", held at the Museum of Modern Art from Nov. 12, 1940 to Jan. 5, 1941.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Paul Laseau , James Tice

Número de Páginas: 222

Despite the renewed interest in Frank Lloyd Wright and the increasing body of literature that has illuminated his career, the deeper meaning of his architecture continues to be elusive. His own writings are often interesting commentaries but tend not to enlighten us as to his design methodology, and it is difficult to make the connection between his stated philosophy and his actual designs. This book is a refreshing account that evaluates Wright’s contribution on the basis of his architectural form, its animating principle and consequent meaning. Wright’s architecture, not his persona, is the primary focus of this investigation. This study presents a comprehensive overview of Wright’s work in a comparative analytical format. Wright’s major building types have been identified to enable the reader to pursue a more systematic understanding of his work. The conceptual and experiential order of each building group is demonstrated visually with specially developed analytical illustrations. These drawings offer vital insights into Wright’s exploration of form and underscore the connection between form and principle. The implications of Wright’s work for architecture in...

Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Meryle Secrest

Número de Páginas: 660

Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends are explored in this evocative biography. Secrest had unprecedented access to an extensive archive of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings and books. "Secrest's achievement is to etch Wright's character in sharp relief. . . . (She) presents Wright in his every guise".--Blair Kamin, "Chicago Tribune". 121 photos.

Frank Lloyd Wright. Edition trilingue français-anglais-allemand

Autor: Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer , Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 175

The American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) exerted a unique influence on the architecture of the first half of the 20th century. This volume presents the whole range of his extraordinarily profilic output and shows clearly how his view of the world was a common factor throughout the rich diversity of his oeuvre. From his early prairie houses to the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Frank Lloyd Wright saw man as the focal point of an architecture closely bound up with nature. Book jacket.

Frank Lloyd Wright (Nouvelle Edition)

Autor: Daniel Treiber

Número de Páginas: 191

Des premières villas aux grandes réalisations comme l'Impérial Hôtel de Tokyo ou le musée Guggenheim de New York, l'oeuvre de Lloyd Wright reste mal connue du public français. Ce livre s'attache à suivre les grandes métaphores de cet art de construire original à travers sa lisibilité, ses textures matérielles savantes, son raffinement, ses oscillations entre le spectaculaire et le caché...

Frank Lloyd Wright--the Lost Years, 1910-1922

Autor: Anthony Alofsin

Número de Páginas: 428

New definition to the little-known work Wright produced during this period, which he describes as Wright's primitivist phase. He traces this influence in his art through Wright's explorations of primitivist sources, innovations in sculpture, and an intensification of the architect's use of ornament. Less tangible, but as important, was Wright's view of himself, his art, and society, and Alofsin uncovers the European impact on the architect's image of himself as a.

"Ausgeführte Bauten" of 1911

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 150

207 rare photos of Oak Park period, first great buildings: Unity Temple, Dana house, Larkin factory, more. Complete photos of Wasmuth edition. New Introduction.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Anthony Alofsin

Número de Páginas: 298

Ask Americans to think of a famous architect and the person they are most likely to name is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career have made him an icon of modern American architecture. But despite his status as America's most celebrated architect, his influence throughout an active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully. The essays in this book look not at the United States, the context usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe. Anthony Alofsin has assembled a superb collection of scholars to examine Wright's importance from Japan to Great Britain, France to Chile, Mexico to Russia, and the Middle East. Interwoven in the essays are stories of champions and critics, rivals and acolytes, books and exhibitions, attitudes toward America and individualism, and the many ways Wright's ideas were brought to the world. Together the essays represent a first look at Wright's impact abroad, some from the perspective of natives of the countries discussed and others from that of informed outsiders. Of special note is Bruno Zevi's firsthand account of traveling ...

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Oak Park

Autor: Elaine Harrington , Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 66

It was in his home in Oak Park that Frank Lloyd Wright made his first contributions to the Modern movement. In 1889 he designed the first part of the house, in 1895 he added to it for his wife, Catherine, and their family, and in 1898 for his architectural practice. The entire building was a learning laboratory of modern architecture. While not a Prairie School house, it led to the development of the Prairie School. Wrights constant changes to this complex paralleled the evolution of his early architectural work and career. There, with his young assistants, he rethought the plan, spaces, materials, proportions, and lines of American residential architecture, creating a revolution on the Prairie. His home and studio provided the architectural environment in which to experiment with his ideas in three dimensions. The house featured contemporary art work, oriental tribal rugs, and Japanese decorative arts chosen by Wright and his wife. The studio was decorated with classical plaster sculpture, Teco ceramics and selections from Wrights large collection of Japanese prints. Wright completed the interiors, toned in natures hues, with furniture and built-in furnishings of his own design,...

The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: William Allin Storrer

Número de Páginas: 552

Among the many books available on Wright, William Allin Storrer's classic - now fully revised and updated - remains the only authoritative guide to all of Wright's built work.".

Frank Lloyd Wright Versus America

Autor: Donald Leslie Johnson

Número de Páginas: 448

For his critics and biographers, the 1930s have always been the most challenging period of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. This account uses the architect's long-inaccessable archives at Taliesin West to provide a balanced evaluation of Wright in the 1930s. It separates Wright's design activities from his self-promotion and places his philosophy of individualism within the context of the times.

Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 112

Complete Wasmuth drawings, reproduced from a rare 1910 edition, feature Wright's early experiments in organic design. Includes 100 plates of public and private buildings from Oak Park period, plus Wright's Introduction and annotations.

The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Robert Closson Spencer

Número de Páginas: 24

Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Arnt Cobbers

Número de Páginas: 100

Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Meryle Secrest

Número de Páginas: 634

The widely admired biographer of Bernard Berenson (“A triumph”—Washington Post; “A perfect riot”—Michael Holroyd; “Astonishing”—London Sunday Times) and of Kenneth Clark (“Splendid, enthralling”—The Wall Street Journal) gives us now a complete and complex portrait of an American titan, Frank Lloyd Wright. Meryle Secrest shows us Frank Lloyd Wright in full scale—the brilliant, outrageous, fascinating man; the giant who changed modern architecture; the standard-bearer for the new, quintessentially American vision, the artist who never, during a seventy-year career, abandoned his principles of design; the radical, the Bohemian—the visionary who was one of the central figures of the twentieth-century American culture, society and politics. Meryle Secrest is the first biographer to have full access to the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. Her life of the architect, more than five years’ work and illustrated with 121 photographs, is a stunning feat of biographical narrative, sustained analysis and compassionate insight. With her extraordinary grasp of the man and his art, she gives us Frank Lloyd Wright close up—a creature of boundless energy and indomitable...

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Living City

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 334

This volume focuses on the two major ideal projects, "Broadacre City" and "The Living City", designed by the American master during the '30s. 418 illustrations, 251 in color.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Public buildings

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright , Martin Pawley

Número de Páginas: 140

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959

Autor: Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

Número de Páginas: 104

The Wright idea "The interior space itself is the reality of the building." - Frank Lloyd Wright Widely thought to be the greatest American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a true pioneer, both artistically and technically. At a time when reinforced concrete and steel were considered industrial building materials, Wright boldly made use of them to build private homes. His prairie house concept--that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure--was the driving force behind some of his most famous houses and became a model for rural architecture across America. Wright`s designs for office and public buildings were equally groundbreaking and unique. From Fallingwater to New York`s Guggenheim Museum, his works are among the most famous in the history of architecture. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features: an introduction to the life and work of the architect the major works in chronological order information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings approximately ...

Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Ada Louise Huxtable

Número de Páginas: 272

Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable?s biography of America?s greatest architect Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder-not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever.

Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life, His Work, His Words

Autor: Olgivanna Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 238

Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Norris Kelly Smith

Número de Páginas: 236

Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Daniel Treiber

Número de Páginas: 0

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) exercised a shaping influence on architectural history throughout the world as only very few other architects beside him have done. His structures - developed from landscape, program, material, and construction - are highly individual and independent of the stylistic developments of modern architecture. His constant attempts to invent new things gave rise to the idiosyncratic forms and constructions that are typical of his work. The author, Daniel Treiber, has produced a well-researched and thorough presentation that highlights the fundamental aspects of the American architect's work that are relevant from a contemporary perspective. He systematically investigates the forms, types, and strategies of Wright's oeuvre and accompanies his outstanding texts with a lavish offering of photographs and plans. Thanks to his many years of experience teaching design and architectural history at the cole d'architecture in Lille, France, and elsewhere, the author possesses a deep and comprehensive expert knowledge of his subject.

The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Fourth Edition

Autor: William Allin Storrer

Número de Páginas: 509

From sprawling houses to compact bungalows and from world-famous museums to a still-working gas station, Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs can be found in nearly every corner of the country. While the renowned architect passed away more than fifty years ago, researchers and enthusiasts are still uncovering structures that should be attributed to him. William Allin Storrer is one of the experts leading this charge, and his definitive guide, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, has long been the resource of choice for anyone interested in Wright. Thanks to the work of Storrer and his colleagues at the Rediscovering Wright Project, thirty-seven new sites have recently been identified as the work of Wright. Together with more photos, updated and expanded entries, and a new essay on the evolution of Wright’s unparalleled architectural style, this new edition is the most comprehensive and authoritative catalog available. Organized chronologically, the catalog includes full-color photos, location information, and historical and architectural background for all of Wright’s extant structures in the United States and abroad, as well as entries for works that have been demolished over...

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities

Autor: Donald Leslie Johnson

Número de Páginas: 471

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the theory was a belief that reform of nineteenth-century gluttony should include a contemporary interpretation of its material presence, its bulk and space, its architectural landscape. This book analyzes Wright's innovative, profound theory of architecture that drew upon geometry and notions of pure design and the indigenous as put into practice. It outlines the design methodology that he applied to domestic and non-domestic buildings and presents reasons for the recognition of two Wright Styles and a Wright School. The book also studies how his design method was applied to city planning and implications of historical and theoretical contexts of the period that surely influenced all of Wright's community and city planning.

Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, Nature, and the Human Spirit

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 0

The architect of the Guggenheim Museum, Fallingwater, the Robie House, and the Johnson Wax Administration Building, Frank Lloyd Wright once said, You do not learn by way of your successes. No one does. Just as he flouted convention in a series of astonishing buildings, so did Wright go against the grain in his career as a writer and lecturer. On subjects as diverse as McCarthyism (he called the senator from Wisconsin a political pervert) and cement blocks, he produced countless lectures and articles, a half-dozen books, and a remarkable series of informal talks delivered to his apprentices on Sunday mornings. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, the author of several collections of Wrights writings and Director of Archives for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, has culled more than two hundred quotations from a wide range of sources, drawing heavily on transcripts of the Sunday talks. The themes to which Wright returned most often serve as the books sections: the value of architecture takes precedence, but topics such as government and the getting of wisdom elicited memorable and pungent comments. Wright was brash, outspoken, funny, irreverent, and unafraid of the most sweeping generalizations. ...

An Autobiography: Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 422

Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright , Lewis Mumford , Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer , Robert Wojtowicz

Número de Páginas: 356

Their 160 letters from 1926-1958 covered a wide range of topics, including Wright's position on the history of American architecture and contemporary practice, their friends and rivals, the invention and spread of the International Style, and political events in Europe and the United States.".

Frank Lloyd Wright, 60 ans d'architecture vivante

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 0

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Buildings

Autor: Jonathan Lipman , Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 228

Thoroughly researched study of the design and construction of this radical, inspiring workplace draws on much unpublished archival material. From the genesis of the structurally unique Administration Building — its design development, innovations, and furnishings — to the construction and completion of the Research Towers, Lipman presents a wealth of information. 172 black-and-white illustrations.

On and by Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright , Robert Mccarter

Número de Páginas: 378

This volume contains a collection of the key essays on and by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), one of the most influential and prolific architects of the 20th century. The individual essays focus on specific aspects of Wright's work, analyzing buildings and projects in order to explain the general principles of Wright's much-debated design methods. Included are previously published contributions from well-known historians and Wright scholars such as Kenneth Frampton, Colin Rowe, and Gwendolyn Wright, as well as new commentary from the book's editor, Robert McCarter, an acknowledged Wright expert and author of Phaidon's Frank Lloyd Wrightmonograph. This volume brings together in one place decades of important scholarship on Wright and his architectural principles, making it an essential reader for students of architecture and enthusiasts of Wright's work.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright , Terence Riley , Anthony Alofsin , Museum Of Modern Art (new York, N.y.) , Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Número de Páginas: 352

From the turn of the century until his death in 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright produced projects that defined and redefined the American architectural vision. This book, accompanying a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is the most comprehensive appraisal of his achievements ever assembled. 466 illustrations, 190 in full color.

Truth Against the World

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 494

This is a unique and comprehensive collection of the significant speeches of Frank Lloyd Wright. The speeches presented, spanning nearly six decades, touch on Wright's ideas on organic architecture, the machine, improving the human condition, honor, education, democracy, city planning and his Broadacre City in particular and government. Profusely illustrated with over 300 photographs and drawings, most of which have never been published. A companion volume to the author's collection of conversations and interviews with Wright, The Master Architect.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Autor: Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 136

Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House

Autor: Donald Hoffmann , Frank Lloyd Wright

Número de Páginas: 130

Lavishly illustrated study recounts the turbulent history of one of Wright's most imaginative and controversial residential designs. More than 120 black-and-white images complement this perceptive account of the building's design and construction.