This study of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, beginning with his work in Oak Park in the late 1880s and culminating in the construction of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Marin County Civic Centre in the 1950s, is an analysis of the architect's entire career since the opening of the Wright Archives over a decade ago. Wright built more than 400 buildings and designed at least twice as many more. The characteristic features of his work - the open plan, dynamic space, fragmented volumes, natural materials, ...
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This study of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, beginning with his work in Oak Park in the late 1880s and culminating in the construction of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Marin County Civic Centre in the 1950s, is an analysis of the architect's entire career since the opening of the Wright Archives over a decade ago. Wright built more than 400 buildings and designed at least twice as many more. The characteristic features of his work - the open plan, dynamic space, fragmented volumes, natural materials, and integral structure-established the basic way that we think about modern architecture. For a general audience, this book provides an introduction to Wright's remarkable accomplishments, as seen against the background of his eventful and often tragic life. For the architect or the architectural historian, it should be a source of new insights into the development of Wright's whole body of work. It integrates biographical and historical material in a chronologically ordered framework that makes sense of his enormously varied career, and it provides over four hundred illustrations running parallel to the text. Levine conveys the meanings of the continuities and changes that he sees in Wright's architecture and thought by focusing successive chapters on his most significant buildings, such as the Winslow House, Taliesin, Hollyhock House, Fallingwater, Taliesin West, and the Guggenheim Museum. A new understanding of the representational imagery and narrative structure of Wright's work, along with a reconsideration of its historical and contextual underpinnings, gives this study a place in the writings on Wright. In contrast to the emphasis a previous generation of critics and historians placed on Wright's earlier buildings, this book offers a broader perspective that sees Wright's later work as the culmination of his earlier efforts and the basis for a new understanding of the centrality of his career to the evolution of modem architecture as a whole.
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Used-Very Good. In this compelling and thought-provoking book, the distinguished architectural historian Neil Levine redefines our understanding of Frank Lloyd Wright in the first comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the architect's entire career since the opening of the Wright Archives. Making use of the architect's drawings, notes, writings, and personal and professional correspondence, the author weaves together historical and biographical material in a carefully documented, chronologically ordered framework that gives new meaning and relevance to Wright's enormously varied production. 'Scrupulously researched, elegantly written...beautifully illustrated and designed...the book is a feast for eye and mind, challenging assumptions and deepening understanding on almost every page....Wright's ability to translate the poetic essence of a place into form was unrivaled, and no one has explored it with more insight than Levine. '--Richard Weston, the architects' journal'Wright's personal history was extraordinary by any standards, and it is the great strength of Neil Levine's book that he manages to correlate the developments in Wright's architecture with the events in his life, without being sentimental or over-reverent. '--Andrew Ballantyne, The Times Literary Supplement 'There is no other book that brings one closer to a sense of full understanding of Wright's architecture. '--Robin Middleton, Columbia University Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. With dj.
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Very Good. 1996. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf-wear. Dust jacket in acetate. Acetate scuffed along top edge. Else clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Architecture & Urban Design).
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