Frank Lloyd Wright : the early work of the great architect.

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Title:

Frank Lloyd Wright : the early work of the great architect.

Author:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

ISBN:

9780517119181

Personal Author:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Publication Information:

New York : Gramercy Books ; Avenel, N.J. : Distributed by Random House Value Publishing, 1994.

Physical Description:

164 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm

General Note:

Photographs and plans of Wright's early designs.

"As originally published in seven special issues of the Dutch art magazine Wendingen, 1925, featuring essays by Frank Lloyd Wright, H. Th. Wijdeveld, Lewis Mumford, H.P. Berlage, J.J.P. Oud, R. Mallet-Stevens, Erich Mendelsohn, and Louis H. Sullivan."

Contents:

Wijdeveld, H.T. Some flowers for architect Frank Lloyd Wright.--Wright, F.L. In the cause of architecture (1908).--Wright, F.L. In the cause of architecture (1914).--Wright, F.L. In the cause of architecture (1925).--Mumford, L. The social back ground of Frank Lloyd Wright.--Berlage, H.P. Frank Lloyd Wright.--Oud, J.J.P. The influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on the architecture of Europe.--Mallet-Stevens, R. Frank Lloyd Wright et l'architecture nouvelle.--Mendelsohn, E. Frank Lloyd Wright.--Sullivan, L.H. Concerning the Imperial Hotel Tokyo, Japan.--Sullivan, L.H. Refelections on the Tokyo disaster.--Wright, F.L. To my European co-workers.

Abstract:

Photographs and plans of Wright's early designs, and writings by Wright and other architects.

Personal Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959-Themes, motives.

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959-Criticism and interpretation.

Added Uniform Title:

Wendingen (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/94014866-d.html

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Summary

The importance of the architect to the quality and character of any society is not usually as widely regarded as it deserves to be. While every past civilization is, to a considerable extent, recognized and judged by its architecture, its creators are in general little known or revered; it would seem as though the buildings which are of such importance to our lives have spontaneously appeared as if by magic. Civilizations are more widely evaluated by their literature, music, painting and sculpture and other useful artefacts, while architecture is merely taken for granted. In this century, however, where great and far-reaching developments have occurred which require examination and justification, architects have come to be regarded with a mixture of interest, suspicion and sometimes dismay. All this has served to transform the interest of the general public in architecture and the architect is beginning to be appreciated and valued. When they have great strength of character, lucidity of exposition and, in the view of the media, an interesting personal history as well, they have become publicly recognized figures of social importance. None more so than the subject of this book whose personality and achievement has, unlike many of his peers, dominated the first half of this century. With such figures as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, he is recognized as a creative architectural genius. His singular individual achievement, as a native-born American, was to gather together the strands of American historical architecture and create a corpus of work which is both modern and essentially American. Frank Lloyd Wright's career, sometimes tragic, sometimes tempestuous--at all times creative--has been examined and re-examined in numerous studies and articles both during his lifetime and since his death in 1959 shortly before his most famous and notorious Guggenheim Museum in New York was completed. And his life continues to demand re-examination as the progress of architectural philosophy inspires dramatic stylistic change. This concise consideration of his life and work offers a careful analysis of this complex, powerful and confident personality as well as the architectural legacy left behind by him.