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Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : New York : Horizon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Living City written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by New York : Horizon Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright and the Living City written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by Skira. This book was released on 1998 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Vitra Design Stiftung
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright and the Living City written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by Vitra Design Stiftung. This book was released on 1998 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane King Hession
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423601012
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright in New York written by Jane King Hession and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2007 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 : Barry Bergdoll
Publisher : Moma
ISBN 13 : 9781633450264
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright written by Barry Bergdoll and published by Moma. This book was released on 2017 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalogue reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar as to nearly preclude critical reexamination. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, the book is a collection of scholarly explorations rather than an attempt to construct a master narrative. Each chapter centers on a key object from the archive that an invited author has "unpacked"-interpreting and contextualizing it, tracing its meanings and connections, and juxtaposing it with other works from the archive, from MoMA, or from outside collections. The publication aims to open up Wright's work to questions, interrogations, and debates, and to highlight interpretations by contemporary scholars, both established Wright experts and others considering this iconic figure from new and illuminating perspectives.
Author : Morton Gabriel White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258409425
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Intellectual Versus the City written by Morton Gabriel White and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. C. Boyle
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408826755
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Women written by T. C. Boyle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the troubled, tempestuous world of Frank Lloyd Wright. Scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door for the latest tragedy in this never-ending saga. This is the home of the great architect of the twentieth century, a man of extremes in both his work and his private life: at once a force of nature and an avalanche of need and emotion that sweeps aside everything in its path. Sharp, savage and subtle in equal measure, The Women plumbs the chaos, horrors and uncontainable passions of a formidable American icon.
Author : Paul Venable Turner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300215029
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco written by Paul Venable Turner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented look at Frank Lloyd Wright's storied relationship with San Francisco and the Bay Area, highlighting local masterpieces as well as a remarkable body of unbuilt works
Author : Anthony Alofsin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300243804
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Wright and New York written by Anthony Alofsin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Roger Friedland
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061875260
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book The Fellowship written by Roger Friedland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy—from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also gave rise to one of the most fascinating and provocative experiments in American cultural history: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary architectural colony where Wright trained hundreds of devoted apprentices and where all of his late masterpieces—Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, the Guggenheim Museum—were born. Drawing on hundreds of new and unpublished interviews and countless unseen documents from the Wright archives, The Fellowship is an unforgettable story of genius and ego, sex and violence, mysticism and utopianism. Epic in scope yet intimate in its detail, it is a stunning true account of how an idealistic community devolved into a kind of fiefdom where young apprentices were both inspired and manipulated, often at a staggering personal cost, by the architect and his imperious wife, Olgivanna Hinzenberg, along with her spiritual master, the legendary Greek-Armenian mystic Georgi Gurdjieff. A magisterial work of biography, it will forever change how we think about Frank Lloyd Wright and his world.
Author : Des Fitzgerald
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541674510
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book The Living City written by Des Fitzgerald and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sociologist explores why “green cities” won’t fix everything—and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if something is unhealthy or bad about urban life today, then nature holds the cure. However, argues sociologist Des Fitzgerald, green spaces are not the panacea that people think. In The Living City, Fitzgerald tours the international green city movement that has flourished across the world and discovers the deep, sometimes troubling, roots of our desire to connect cities to nature. Talking to policy makers, planners, scientists, and architects, Fitzgerald suggests that underneath the wish to turn future cities green is another wish: to make the modern city, and perhaps the modern world, disappear altogether. Ultimately, he makes an argument for celebrating the contemporary city as it is—in all its noisy, constructed, artificial glory.
Author : Jason Loper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781087500614
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)
Download or read book This American House written by Jason Loper and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before designing his signature Usonian houses, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned an earlier series of affordable models for the middle class: The American System-Built Homes. He developed seven floorplans of varying size and layout, standardized so that materials could be precut at the factory to reduce costs. Only a few years after the project began, the United States entered World War I, and all home construction was stalled due to lumber shortages. Wright then turned his attention to other projects, and with fewer than twenty built, the American System-Built Homes were all but forgotten.In 2011, Jason Loper and Michael Schreiber purchased the only American System-Built Home constructed in Iowa, the Meier House, which set them on a course of refurbishing and researching their new residence. In This American House, Loper and Schreiber trace the history of the Meier House through its previous owners, and shed light on this underexplored period of Wright's oeuvre. With a preface by John H. Waters, the Preservation Programs Manager of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, This American House addresses what it means to be the stewards of a piece of history.
Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kim Bixler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965242615
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Growing Up in a Frank Lloyd Wright House written by Kim Bixler and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Bixler's family owned Frank Lloyd Wright's 1908 Edward E. Boynton House in Rochester, New York from 1977-1994. Growing Up in a Frank Lloyd Wright House recounts the joys and pitfalls of owning a Wright-designed home. The tumultuous history of the house is recounted through interviews with former and current owners. Living with the public's curiosity, playing hide-and-seek, coping with the habitually leaky roof, and managing constant renovations make this an unforgettable story.
Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)
Download or read book The Natural House written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Hess
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright written by Alan Hess and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The mid-twentieth century was one of the most productive and inventive periods in Frank Lloyd Wright's career, producing such masterworks as the Guggenheim Museum, Price Tower, Fallingwater, the Usonian Houses, and the Lovness House, as well as a vast array of innovative furniture and object design. With a wide variety of shapes and forms-ranging from honeycombs to spirals-this period defies simplistic definition. Simplicity, democratic designs, and organic forms characterize Mid-Century Modern, and, mentoring such mid-century talents as Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler among others, Wright was one of its most influential proponents. Frank Lloyd Wright: Mid-Century Modern is a comprehensive examination of an under-explored period in Wright's career, a time dating from roughly 1935 to 1958, during which this master architect was at his most daring and innovative."--Jacket
Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 : 9780847832620
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright from Within Outward written by Frank Lloyd Wright and published by Skira. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward features a lifetime of achievement by this titan of American architecture through newly commissioned contemporary photography, archival photography, and wonderfully detailed drawings of more than 200 projects, including such masterworks as the S. C. Johnson & Sons Administration Building in Wisconsin, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and Taliesin West, Wright’s desert home in Arizona, as well as less-known projects designed for Baghdad, Iraq, and beyond. The book is richly accompanied by authoritative text from some of the most important Frank Lloyd Wright scholars and writers at work today, and presents a timely reevaluation of the work and life of Frank Lloyd Wright within the context of social spaces, in the spirit of the exhibition.
