Main entry:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.

Title & Author:

A Testament.

Publication:

New York, Horizon Press [1957]

Description:

256 pages illustrations, plans 31 cm

Notes:
[Table of Contents] -- BOOK ONE: Autobiographical -- PART ONE -- Architecture Is Always Here And Now -- The Seed -- The Confusion -- Awakening -- Realization -- Retrogression -- "The Chicago School" -- Disaster -- Contribution -- Man And The Machine -- The Field -- Civilization As Abstraction -- Poet - "Unacknowledged Legislator Of The World" -- Conformity -- New Thought -- Romance - The Free Philosophy -- Jefferson's Aristoi -- Integrity -- New Or Old -- Naissance -- Reversion -- The View -- Betrayal -- Faith In Man -- The Trojan Horse - Confidential -- Consequences -- The Expedient -- The Substitute -- "The Common Man" -- The Need For The New American -- Man Above Law Or Law Above Man -- Walt Whitman - Seer OF Democracy -- Beginning -- Inside Out - Outside In -- PART TWO -- Form - A Birth -- New Philosophy -- New Integrity -- Principle Before Precedent -- "Normalcy" -- The Nature Of Nature -- Now - Freedom Is From Within -- The European Contradiction -- Discovery -- Incidental -- Ornament -- Integration Intrinsic -- The Idea -- Standardized -- PART THREE -- Concerning The Third Dimension -- Organic Ornament -- Romance -- The Critic -- Usonia -- Science And The Scientist -- The Substitute -- The Monumental -- Self-Possession -- Democracy -- The Appeal -- Freedom -- Tradition -- PART FOUR -- The City -- Ideas And Ideals -- Youth And Architecture -- Retrospect -- Technology Again -- Salvation -- Organic Characteristics -- The New Cliche -- Influences And Inferences -- Wisdom -- BOOK TWO: The New Architecture -- PART ONE: Principles -- I. The Earth Line -- The Modular Of The Kindergarten Table -- II. Impulse To Grow -- III. Character Is A Natural -- IV. Tenuity Plus Continuity -- V. The Third Dimension: Interpretation -- VI. Space -- VII. Form -- Organic Unit -- VIII. Shelter: Inherent Human Factor -- The Client -- IX. Materials -- Style -- Ownership -- What Is Natural -- Addendum I -- Furniture -- The Camera -- Eye -- The Profession -- They Also Serve -- PART TWO -- Humanity - The Light Of The World -- American Genius -- Photographers' Credits.

Summary:

"Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is one of the great figures of 20th century architecture and his fame has gone beyond the American context, where most of his built work is located. Several of his projects have become emblematic, notably the famous House on the Cascade and the Guggenheim Museum in New York inaugurated the year of his death. Wright published A Testament at the age of 90, having already published an Autobiography. Thus, freed from the strictly personal aspects of his career, he can concentrate on his creative activity, his sources of inspiration, on the state of architecture since the end of the 19th century and take stock of his entire work that he comments on. Author of numerous theoretical texts, Wright strives here to ensure greater dissemination of his thought, including a synthetic presentation of the nine founding principles of organic architecture, since, going against the tide of a carefree and materialist America, he advocated a more spiritual conception of life, respectful of Man and Nature. His achievements are both the manifesto and the living testimony of a true doctrine of architecture. Including detailed illustrations on more than sixty projects, this book, beyond its literary, philosophical, political and aesthetic dimensions, constitutes a true monograph on an architect whose influence has marked numerous artistic movements and whose legacy keeps all its news." -- Amazon

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Aesthetics.
Architecture, American 20th century.
Architecture.
Architecture, American History 20th century.
Architecture américaine Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture américaine 20e siècle.
architecture (discipline)
Architecture, American
Architects United States 20th century Biography.

Form/genre:

Autobiographies.
History
Dust jackets (Binding) NNC.
Dust jackets. NNC
Stamps. NNC
Annotations. NNC
Stamps (Provenance) NNC.
Annotations (Provenance) NNC.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 155150
Call No.: NA44.W949.A2 1957b
Status: Available