Book Description
A young readers' biography of the famous architect, with black and white photographs of Wright, his family, and his creations.
Author : Bob Kann
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architects
ISBN : 9780870204418
A young readers' biography of the famous architect, with black and white photographs of Wright, his family, and his creations.
Author : Anthony Alofsin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300243804
An “immensely valuable” dual biography of the iconic American architect and the city that transformed his career in the early twentieth century (Francis Morrone, New Criterion). Frank Lloyd Wright took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors. Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright’s life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan.
Author : Robert Lawrence Sweeney
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Edgar Kaufmann
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,23 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780764936593
As revilutionary as the structures themselves are the theories that governed Frank Lloyd Wright's approach to architecture. In this celebrated volume, first published in 1955, Wright elucidated his guiding principles in an evocative joining of text and image.
Author : Jane King Hession
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781423601012
'Frank Lloyd wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959', examines the momentous five-year period when one of the world's greatest architects and one of the world's greatest cities coexisted. Authors Jane Hession and Debra Prickel bring each of these unequalled characters to life, exploring the fascinating contradiction between Wright's often-voiced disdain of New York and his pride and pleasure of living in one of the city's greatest landmarks: the Plaza Hotel. From his suite, or 'Taliesin the Third', as it became known, Wright supervised construction of the Guggenheim, sparred with the New York press, and received many famous vistitors such as Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. home...;Michael Carroll, a renowned astronomical and paleo artist for more than twenty years, has done work for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His art has appeared in many magazines, including 'Time', 'National Geographic', 'Sky & Telescope', and ' Asimov's Science Fiction'. One of his paintings flew aboard MIR; another is resting at the bottom of the Atlantic, aboard Russia's ill-fated Mars 96 spacecraft. nd development without constraining
Author : Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262600224
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.
Author : Nicholas D. Hayes
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0299331806
Frank Lloyd Wright's foray into affordable housing--the American System-Built Homes--is frequently overlooked. When Nicholas and Angela Hayes became stewards of one of them, they began to unearth evidence that revealed a one-hundred-year-old fiasco fueled by competing ambitions and conflicting visions that eventually gave way to Wright's most creative period.
Author : Anne Whiston Spirn
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 1996
Category :
ISBN : 9780810926646
Author : Anthony Alofsin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226013664
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.
Author : Kathryn Smith
Publisher : Abbeville Publishing Group
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 1998-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is unquestionably America's most celebrated architect. In fact, his career was so long and his accomplishments so varied it can be difficult still to grasp the full range of Wright's achievement.